¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº

Explore more:

Popular searches

Donate Join us

Malcolm Campbell Memorial Award

Recognising outstanding research in chemistry and its application to the understanding of bioactivity.

Details

Status Closed
Career stage All career stages

Awarded by the Biological and Medicinal ¾ÅÖÝÓ°Ôº Sector

The group which to further the interests of all members of the RSC, both industrial and academic, involved in the pursuit and understanding of biologically active molecules. Predominant areas include pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, flavours and fragrances.

Winners

Awarded on behalf of the team behind the discovery and early development of pirtobrutinib (Jaypirca), the first FDA and EMA approved reversible inhibitor of Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) for the treatment of mantle cell lymphoma.

BMCS congratulates the team on their success in producing second-generation BTK inhibitors that overcome limitations of the earlier compounds and provide promising clinical benefit for lymphoma cancer patients.

2023

Professors Anthony G.M Barrett, Matthew J. Fuchter, R. Charles Coombers and Simak Ali of Imperial College London for the discovery and early development of first-in-class cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK7) inhibitor, Samuraciclib for breast cancer.

2021

British scientists and clinical researchers who contributed to the COVID-19 response (received on their behalf by Sir Patrick Vallance, Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of the UK)

2019

The FGFR discovery team: Christopher W Murray, Patrick Angibaud and Herbie Newell

Astex Pharmaceuticals, Janssen Pharmaceutica, and the Northern Institute for Cancer Research (NICR), Newcastle University

Development of Erdafitinib

2017

Osimertinib Team, AstraZeneca

Development of TAGRISSOTM

2015

Miles Congreve, Fiona Marshall and Malcom Weir, Heptares

GPCR drug discovery

2013

BrilintaTM/BriliqueTM Team, AstraZeneca

Development of  BrilintaTM/BriliqueTM

2011

Paul O’Neill, Kevin Park and Stephen Ward, University of Liverpool

Research and Development of Anti-Malaria Agents

2009

Lawrence Woo, Barry Potter, University of Bath; and Atul Purohit, Michael Reed, Imperial College, London

Discovery of Steroid Sulfatase Inhibitors

2007

Jonathan Bennett, Anton Bom, Alan Muir, Ronald Palin, David Rees and Ming Zhang, Organon

Development of Sugammadex

2005

David O’Hagan, University of St Andrews

Research on Fluorinating Enzymes

Tony Wood, Pfizer

Development of CCR5 Antagonists 

2003

Malcolm Stevens, Andrew Westwell and Tracy Bradshaw, Cancer Research UK

Discovery of the Anticancer Compound Fortress & Related Work

About the prize

The Malcolm Campbell Memorial Prize is awarded biennially by the RSC BMCS to commemorate Professor Campbell’s outstanding contributions in a broad range of chemistry and their applications to the understanding of bioactivity. 

The award comprises £2000 and a medal as well as one free attendance at an RSC BMCS conference in the year of the award.

Submissions are invited from individuals or teams in industry and academia with a British research centre mailing address although work may be from several worldwide groups.

Seminal publications which may include presentations in the public domain and/or patents from the submitting individual or team relating to work of biological and/or medicinal chemistry interest including discovery, process development, agrochemical and aromachemical research.

Submissions may be a culmination of a series of papers published in recent years prior to the award.

Submissions must be accompanied by written permission from Heads of Department or Managers for the release of the work details.