Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.


Antonio Echavarren
Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Spain
For pioneering contributions to the field of organic chemistry employing gold catalysis.

Professor Dame Margaret
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
For a large body of pioneering work spanning the fields of natural product synthesis, peptide chemistry, and medicinal chemistry.

Professor Harry Anderson
University of Oxford, UK
For work on the synthesis and investigation of pi-conjugated macrocycles and new carbon allotropes.

Paolo Melchiorre
University of Bologna, Italy
For the development of asymmetric photocatalytic methodologies based on excited state intermediates.

Professor Wilfred van der Donk
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
For the combined application of organic chemistry, molecular biology, and biochemistry to study posttranslationally modified peptides and phosphona...