Early Career Research Awards

These Biochemical Society awards recognize the impact of research carried out in the molecular biosciences by early career scientists i.e. those who have no more than six years postdoctoral research experience. It is expected that successful candidates will have produced international quality research outputs, and be able to demonstrate ambitions and aspirations consistent with the potential to achieve world-leading status. Research areas include but are not limited to: genes, energy and metabolism, signalling, biotechnology, biological systems, molecular structure and function and cells.

Each awardee is given

The opportunity to present a lecture at a Society conference
£1000 prize money
A medal
Is invited to submit an article to a Society-owned publication

View our collection of published articles from previous Award winners.

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Andrew Hammond presented his award lecture as part of the Biochemistry Focus webinar series:
Building gene drives to beat malaria >

Nominees must have no more than six years postdoctoral research experience at the time of the awards nomination deadline (31 January). Nominees should have produced international quality research outputs, a significant proportion of which should arise from work performed in the UK or Republic of Ireland.

Those that have more than six years postdoctoral research experience and who have had a career break e.g. through family commitments, illness or other good reasons, will be considered by the Awards Committee. For full details on this and how to nominate a candidate for an Early Career Research Award, please click he r e.

Criteria for nomination

Recipients

2021: Kirsty Wan
2021: Roser Vento-Tormo
2020: Andrew Hammond
2020: Sara Priego Moreno
2019: Michael Booth (University of Oxford, UK) – Biotechnology
2019: Ana Casañal (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge, UK) – Genes
2019: Qian Wu (University of Cambridge, UK) – Signalling
2018: Wojciech Galej (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, France) – Molecular Structure and Function
2018: Yasin Dagdas (Gregor Mendel Institute-Vienna) – Cells
2017: Alexander Büll (University of Düsseldorf, Germany) – Biotechnology
2017: Edward Chouchani (Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA) – Energy and Metabolism
2017: Thi (Kelly) Nguyen (University of Cambridge, UK) – Genes
2017: Maria Romina Girotti (University of Manchester, UK) – Signalling
2016: Anne-Marie Krachler (University of Birmingham, UK) – Biological Systems
2016: Bungo Akiyoshi (University of Oxford, UK) – Cells
2016: Joseph Marsh (MRC HGU, University of Edinburgh, UK) – Computational Biology
2016: Anthony Roberts (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) – Molecular Structure and Function
2015: Paul Elliot (MRC LMB Cambridge, UK) – Signalling
2015: Patricia Muller (MRC TU Leicester, UK) – Genes
2015: Rozbeh Baradaran (MRC MBU Cambridge, UK) – Energy and Metabolism
2015: Glyn Hemsworth (University of York, UK) – Biotechnology
2014: Melina Schuh(MRC LMB, Cambridge, UK) – Cells
2014: John Burke (MRC LMB, Cambridge, UK) – Molecular Structure and Function
2013: Joe Yeeles (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA) – Genes
2013: Alison Parkin (University of York, UK) – Energy and Metabolism
2013: Kristopher Clark (University of Dundee, UK) – Signalling
2012: Tracey Gloster (University of St. Andrews, UK) – Molecular Structure and Function
2012: Sovan Sarkar (Whitehead Institute, MIT, USA) – Cell Biology
2012: Sander van Kasteren (Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands) – Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
2012: Vidya Chandran (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) – Mechanisms of Development and Disease
2011: Alena Krejci (University of Cambridge, UK) – Genes
2011: Taufiq Rahman (University of Cambridge, UK) – Signal Tranduction
2010: M Madan Babu (University of Cambridge, UK) – Biotechnology and bioinformatics
2010 Rene Frank (University of Cambridge, UK) – Molecular structure and function
2010: Jeremy Carlton (King’s College London, UK) – Cell biology
2009: Araxi Urrutia (University of Bath, UK) – Genes
2009: Paul Curnow (University of Bristol, UK) – Bioinformatics and Metabolism
2009: David Komander (Institute of Cancer Research, UK) – Signal Transduction