The Colworth Medal is awarded annually by the Biochemical Society to an outstanding research biochemist under the age of 35 and working mainly in the United Kingdom. The award is one of the most prestigious recognitions for young scientists in the UK, and was established by Tony James FRS at Unilever Research and Henry Arnstein of the Biochemical Society and takes its name from a Unilever research laboratory near Bedford in the UK, Colworth House.
The medal was first presented in 1963 and many of those receiving the award are recognised as outstanding scientists achieving international reputations. The lecture is published in Biochemical Society Transactions, previously Colworth Medal lectures were published in The Biochemical Journal.
Laureates Source:
2027: Tom Deegan 2026: Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon 2025: Alexander Borodavka 2024: Kelly Nguyen 2023: Stephen Wallace 2022: Tanmay A. M. Bharat 2021: Giulia Zanetti 2020: Stephan Uphoff 2019: Melina Schuh 2018: Matthew Johnson 2017: Markus Ralser 2016: David Grainger 2015: Helen Walden 2014: M. Madan Babu 2013: 2012: Akhilesh Reddy 2011: Sarah Teichmann 2010: 2009: 2008: 2007: Frank Sargent 2006: Simon J. Boulton 2005: 2004: James H. Naismith 2003: 2002: 2001: 2000: Dario Alessi 1999: Nigel Scrutton 1998: David Barford 1997: Stephen P. Jackson 1996: Sheena Radford 1995: Jonathon Pines 1994: 1993: Nicholas Tonks 1992: 1991: Michael A. J. Ferguson 1990: 1988: Hugh Pelham 1987: C. Peter Downes 1986: Greg Winter 1985: Alec Jeffreys 1984: 1983: Eric Oldfield 1982: 1981: Terence H. Rabbitts 1980: Richard A. Flavell 1979: Ronald Laskey 1978: 1977: Philip Cohen 1976: George Brownlee 1975: 1974: 1973: 1972: John M. Ashworth 1971: 1970: Dai Rees 1969: George Radda 1968: 1967: 1966: Mark Henry Richmond 1965: 1964: Jamshed R. Tata 1963: Hans Kornberg
See also
List of biochemistry awards
References