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Dextra Carbohydrate ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº Award

Recognising a early/mid career scientist for outstanding work in carbohydrate chemistry that has largely been conducted in the UK.

Details

Status Closed
Career stage Early career

Awarded by the Carbohydrate Group

The group promotes the importance of carbohydrate chemistry in many diverse fields from developing new products and understanding in biomedicine and immunotherapies through to the agricultural industry.

Winners

The award was given to Dr Schumann as a recognition of his ground-breaking research into chemical glycan-based tools in quantitative biology.

2021 - G Miller

2019 - T Gloser

2017 - M C Galan 

2015 - M I Gibson

2013 – W B Turnbull

2011 – D van Aalten and S M Haslam 

2007 - 2010 - No award

2006 - A Nikolaev  

2004 - A J Fairbanks  

2002 - G S Besra  

2001 - B J Davis  

2000 - J H Naismith  

1998 - G J Davies  

1996 - R A Field  

1994 - D Crich  

1992 - N J Turner  

1991 - T C Gallagher  

1990 - no award  

1988 - M J Gidley  

1986 - A Dell  

1984 - E F Hounsell  

1982 - R H Wightman  

1980 - E R Morris  

1978 - M L Sinnott  

1976 - J F Stoddart  

1974 - J F Kennedy  

1972 - L D Hall  

1970 - D A Rees

About this prize

This award, which is sponsored by , was founded in 1970. It is presented to a scientist in the early/mid stage of their career for meritorious work in carbohydrate chemistry that has largely been conducted in the UK.

The Awardee will be expected to give a lecture at the Autumn RSC Carbohydrate Group conference. This lecture may deal with any area of carbohydrate chemistry including analytical, biological, organic, physical or technological aspects.

Nominations for this award, which is presented every second year, may be submitted to the Group Secretary. The deadline for nominations is usually in the early months of the award year.

Please submit these documents by email to with "Dextra Award" in the subject line.

  • Your name and contact details (you must be an RSC member to submit a nomination)
  • The candidate's name and contact details
  • A supporting statement of no longer than one A4 side of 11 pt text
  • A one-page CV for the candidate, which should include their date of birth, website URL, summary of education and career, a list of five relevant publications and total numbers of publications and patents

Administrative responsibility for this award lies with the RSC Carbohydrate Group. Decisions will be made by an independent award selection committee appointed by the RSC Carbohydrate Group Chair. The award selection committee will be drawn from past Chairs of the RSC Carbohydrate Group, past award recipients, and other scientists of international standing in the field.