This award, generously supported by AstraZeneca, is made every 3 years in recognition of outstanding work which, through biomedical advances, leads to development of a new reagent or method. The research should have been carried out in a UK or Republic of Ireland laboratory.

The awardee receives an honorarium of £2000 and is asked to give a presentation at a Biochemical Society conference. The lecture is published in Biochemical Society Transactions.

In 2013, the AstraZeneca Award will be presented to Alec Jeffreys (University of Leicester, UK) at a Biochemical Society Conference.

Past recipients

2010: Bonnie Wallace

2007: Michael Stratton

2005: Noreen Murray

2001: Steven Oliver

1998: Steven Homans

1995: C. Nick Hales