We're delighted to announce that nominations for the Biochemical Society’s 2026 Awards are now open. Nominations are welcomed across 14 categories, spanning all career stages from early career researchers to senior scientists, educators, industry partners, support staff and teams.

All of our prestigious Awards offer a vast array of career enhancing prizes from monetary recognition, grants for relevant meeting or training events, publishing your work in a Biochemical Society journal, presenting at a Biochemical Society meeting or webinar, and opportunities to influence change by joining a Committee.

We strongly encourage nominations that reflect the diversity of the molecular bioscience community, with our Awards programme open to all – you don’t have to be a member to nominate or be nominated!

Timeline for nominations

Submitting a nomination for the Biochemical Society Awards has never been easier; simply complete an initial nomination form outlining how your candidate meets the criteria before 1 November 2024.

Shortlisted nominators will then be contacted to provide the full nomination by 31 January 2025.

Award categories open for nomination

• Biochemical Society Awards (Sustained Excellence and Significant Breakthrough or Achievement)
• The Centenary Award
• The Colworth Medal
• Early Career Research Awards
• The GlaxoSmithKline Award
• Industry and Academic Collaboration Award
• Inspiration and Resilience Award
• International Award
• The Keilin Memorial Lecture
• The Morton Lecture
• Research Support Award
• Teaching Excellence Awards (Early Career and Established Educator)

Useful resources

• Recent Chairs of our Awards Committee, Professor Colin Bingle and Professor Steve Busby, have co-authored a guidance article exploring what to include in a successful nomination. 

• Gain inspiration from our 2025 winners. Each recipient represents a cross-section of the molecular biosciences ranging from redox biology and plant-microbe interactions to mechanochemistry and virology.

• Register for our upcoming webinar on 5 September, where our 2024 Teaching Excellence Award winner, Dr Emma Yhnell, will be presenting her Award Lecture.

• Last year, we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Colworth Medal and hosted a series of dedicated webinars that brought together Colworth winners from across the decades to discuss their leading research and achievements, and share their experiences and advice for future biochemists. Catch up on the recordings here.

• Our prestigious Colworth Medal recipients have also been interviewed for recent articles in The Biochemist. Find out more about their current research focus.

• From computational enzymology and lipid research to cryo-EM and the Human Cell Atlas, discover past Award Lectures held as part of our Biochemistry Focus webinar series.

• Unsure of which category is the best fit for your nominee? Get in touch with our Awards team for further information.