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Recognition of Group Research Achievements

2024

Royal Society of Chemistry Felix Franks Biotechnology Medal (Matt Jenner)

Best Talk Prize, Department of Chemistry Postdoctoral Researcher Symposium, University of Warwick (Daniel Van)

Chancellor's International Scholarship, University of Warwick (Xiaoqi Ji)

 

2023

Biomedicine Discovery Institute Early Career Researcher Development Prize, Monash University (Xinyun Jian)

ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (Lauren Murray)

Sir Howard Dalton Centre Small Grant, University of Warwick (Munro Passmore)

1st Prize, Midlands Interdisciplinary Bioscience Training Partnership Science Communication Workshop Training (Emma Coker)

Best poster prize, Antibiotic Discovery Accelerator Network Meeting, John Innes Centre (Daniel Van)

ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science Capacity Building Grant (Xinyun Jian)

ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science Capacity Building Grant (Chuan Huang)

Best poster prize, Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products 15, University of Warwick (Callum Bullock)

Chemical Biology "best talk" prize, Department of Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium, University Of Warwick (Munro Passmore)

BBSRC Discovery Fellowship (Alex Mullins)

Chancellor's International Scholarship, University of Warwick (Duong Nguyen)

 

2022

Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad (Shanshan Zhou)

Best poster prize, Royal Society of Chemistry Directing Biosynthesis VI, Edinburgh (Marlene Rothe)

UKRI Future Leader Fellowship (Matt Jenner)

Andy Derome Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford (postponed from 2020; Greg Challis)

Chemical Biology "best talk" prize (winner), Department of Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium, University of Warwick (Marlene Rothe)

Chemical Biology "best talk" prize (runner up), Department of Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium, University of Warwick (Becky Clayton)

Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine Post-Doctoral Research Prize in Chemistry, University of Warwick (Shanshan Zhou)

Institute of Advanced Study Early Career Fellowship, University of Warwick (Helen Smith)

 

2021

National Natural Science Foundation (China) Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas) award (Shanshan Zhou)

Best poster prize, International VAAM-Workshop on Biology of Bacteria Producing Natural Products, University of Tübingen (Marlene Rothe)

Infineum Prize for Outstanding Overall Performance in MChem, Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick (Callum Bullock)

Best talk runners up prize, Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products 14, University of Warwick (Matt Beech)

BBSRC/Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellowship (Doug Roberts)

Chemical Biology "best talk" prize, Department of Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium, University of Warwick (Ioanna Nakou)

Chancellor's International Scholarship, University of Warwick (Yu Zhang)

 

2020

Best 3-Minute-Thesis presentation prize at the EPSRC SynBio CDT online meeting (Marlene Rothe)

Prize for the best group challenge project at the online Summer School in Applied Molecular Microbiology (Marlene Rothe)

Chemical Biology "best talk" prize, Department of Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium (Matt Beech)

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Award for outstanding paper at the 61st Experimental NMR Conference (Angelo Gallo)

Bristol Myers Squibb Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley (Greg Challis)

Department of Science and Technology (India) INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship (Hussain Bhukya)

 

2019

Outstanding Early Career Poster Award, Synthetic Biology Australasia, Brisbane (Marianne Costa)

Infineum Prize for Outstanding Overall Performance in MChem (Caitlin Heffernan)

CSIRO Synthetic Biology Future Science Fellowship (Marianne Costa)

KU Leuven Research Council Award (Joleen Masschelein)

Poster Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry Organic Division Midlands Regional Meeting, 19 March 2019, University of Warwick (Jake Sargeant)

Best Overall Masters Project, Warwick Medical School (Helen Smith)

Faculty Post-Doctoral Research Prize in Chemistry (Matt Jenner)

 

2018

GE Sante Lecture, Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Canada (Greg Challis)

BBSRC Future Leaders Fellowship (Matt Jenner)

Chancellor's International Scholarship (Fang Pang)

Poster Prize, Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products XII, University of Warwick (Xinyun Jian)

Chemical Biology "best talk" prize (winner), Department of Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium, University of Warwick (Xinyun Jian)

Chemical Biology "best talk" prize (runner up), Department of Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium, University of Warwick (Marianne Costa)

 

2017

Poster Prize, Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products XI, University of Warwick (Xinyun Jian)

Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship (Matt Jenner)

Royal Society of Chemistry Interdisciplinary Prize (Greg Challis)

Amgen Lecture, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA (Greg Challis)

EPSRC INTEGRATE AMR Early Career Fellowship (Chris Fage)

 

2016

Poster Prize, Genetics of Industrial Microorganisms, Wuhan (Joleen Masschelein)

Poster Prize, Genetics of Industrial Microorganisms, Wuhan (Dani Zabala)

EPSRC INTEGRATE AMR Early Career Fellowship (Shanshan Zhou)

Institute of Advanced Study Early Career Fellowship (Daniel Griffiths)

Best Poster Prize, RSC International Conference, Bioactive Natural Products: Translating Promise into Practice, Oxford (Jade Ronan)

Runner-up Prize for Best Lecture, Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products X, University of Warwick, 1 July 2016 (Daniel Griffiiths)

Andy McCamley Prize for outstanding 4th Year Research Project (Matt Beech)

Chemical Biology "best talk" prize, Department of Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium, University of Warwick (Daniel Griffiths)

EPSRC INTEGRATE AMR Early Career Fellowship (Vincent Poon)

 

2015

China Scholarship Council PhD Scholarship (Xinjun Jian)

Department of Chemistry Best Paper Prize (David Withall)

European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (Joleen Masschelein)

 

2014

Chancellor's Scholarship (Jade Ronan)

Poster Prize, Molecular Organisation and Assembly in Cells Annual Conference (Daniel Griffiths)

 

2013

Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (Greg Challis)

Poster Prize, Molecular Organisation and Assembly in Cells Annual Conference (Daniel Griffiths)

Chancellor's International Scholarship (Gideon Idowu)

Andy McCamley Prize for outstanding 4th Year Research Project (Jade Ronan)

Best Talk Prize, Department of Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium (David Withall)

 

2012

Chancellor's International Scholarship (Shanshan Zhou)

 

2011

The Journal of Biological Chemistry Herbert Tabor Young Investigator Award (Sarah Barry)

Chancellor's International Scholarship (Ruby Awodi)

Poster Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry: The Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products VI, University of Bristol, 22 June 2011 (Paulina Sydor)

Institute of Advanced Study Postdoctoral Fellowship (Paulina Sydor)

Poster Prize, Department of Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium (Lauren Ray)

Fellow of the Society of Biology (Greg Challis)

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (Greg Challis)

 

2010

Poster Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry: Chemistry of the Cell 4, University of Oxford, 6 September 2010 (Nicolas Malet)

Royal Society University Research Fellowship (Chris Corre)

 

2009

Royal Society Gabor Medal for acknowledged distinction of interdisciplinary work between the life sciences and other disciplines (Greg Challis)

Royal Society of Chemistry Hickinbottom Award for distinguished contributions to organic chemistry (Greg Challis)

Poster Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry: The Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products V, University of Bristol, 17 June 2009 (Daniel Oves-Costales)

Poster Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry: The Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products V, University of Bristol, 17 June 2009 (Stuart Haynes)

Prize for Best Lecture, Royal Society of Chemistry Bioorganic Group Annual Postgraduate Symposium, University of Leeds, 6 April 2009 (Stuart Haynes)

Andy McCamley Prize for outstanding 4th Year Research Project (Stephanie Brooks)

 

2008

Poster Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry: The Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products IV, University of Bristol, 18 June 2008 (Prakash Patel)

 

2007

Society for General Micobiology Fleming Prize (Greg Challis)

University of Kent Wain Medal Lecture for exceptional research at the biology / chemistry interface (Greg Challis, inaugural recipent)

Prize for Best Lecture, Royal Society of Chemistry: The Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products III, University of Bristol, 20 June 2007 (Laura Montgomery)

Poster Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry: The Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products III, University of Bristol, 20 June 2007 (Daniel Oves-Costales)

Warwick Postgraduate Research Scholarship (Malek Zerikly)

 

2006

Warwick Postgraduate Research Scholarship (Paulina Sydor)

Department of Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium Best Lecture Prize (Anna Stanley)

 

2005

Poster Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry: The Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products II, University of Bristol, 15 June 2005 (Christophe Corre)

 

2004

Prize for Best Lecture, Royal Society of Chemistry: The Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products, University of Bristol, 16 June 2004 (Anna Stanley)

 

2003

European Commission Marie Curie Fellowship (Sylvie Lautru)

 

2002

Royal Society of Chemistry Meldola Medal and Prize (Greg Challis)

Andy McCamley Prize for outstanding 4th Year Research Project (Louisa Robinson)