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

Criteria for nomination

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 here. 

Recipients

  • 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