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Blavatnik Awards
February 20, 2025
People Would Be Scared to Do My Job But It’s Vital for Millions Worldwide

You might not have heard about Professor Nick Casewell or his team based at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). However, their industry-leading work is helping tackle a global issue. Nick is a world-leading expert in snakebite and snake venom biology. Their research is helping to improve treatments for some of the world’s poorest communities. Nick is a finalist in the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom. When asked how he felt when he found out about his nomination, Nick said: “I was very surprised but obviously very grateful for the recognition, not for me personally but for the work of the team at LSTM and people across the world who have contributed to our missions. Snake bites are a neglected topic. It doesn't have global attention, so to be recognised is a really satisfying thing for LSTM.”

Blavatnik Awards
February 20, 2025
AMI Member Christopher Stewart Named as Finalist in 2025 UK Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

Applied Microbiology International member Dr Christopher Stewart of Newcastle University has been named as a finalist in the eighth Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK. The Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences have just announced the finalists for the Awards, which recognise scientific advances by UK researchers across Life Sciences, Chemical Sciences, and Physical Sciences & Engineering. On Wednesday, 4 March, Professor Shitij Kapur, FMedSci, Vice-Chancellor & President, King’s College London, will announce the three 2025 Laureates at a gala dinner and awards ceremony. The three Laureates will each receive an unrestricted award of £100,000 (US$126,000). The remaining six Finalists will each receive £30,000 (US$37,800).

Blavatnik Awards
February 19, 2025
University of Birmingham Researcher Revealed as Finalist in Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

University of Birmingham researcher Professor Hannah Price has been announced as a finalist for a prestigious award celebrating the achievements of young British scientists. Professor Price is one of nine finalists for this year’s Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom – the eighth such occasion. Established by the Blavatnik Family Foundation and administered by The New York Academy of Sciences, the Awards recognise scientific advances by UK researchers across Life Sciences, Chemical Sciences, and Physical Sciences & Engineering. Professor Price commented: “I am deeply honoured by this recognition from the Blavatnik Foundation and am very grateful to the University of Birmingham and to my colleagues and collaborators for making this possible. It is a really exciting time for quantum physics as experimental advances are allowing us to ask so many new questions. There is so much still to explore, and I can’t wait to continue this journey with my fantastic research team.”

Blavatnik Awards
February 19, 2025
Metal-Bending Math Sees Warwick Academic Honoured at UK Blavatnik Awards

Filip’s research sits at the intersection of applied and theoretical mathematics. He is being recognised by the Blavatnik Awards for mathematically resolving century-old questions about how materials, like metals, can be bent without breaking. Professor Rindler said, “I am thrilled to be recognised as one of the honourees at this year’s UK Blavatnik Awards. As a mathematician that works mostly theoretically, my work concerns the fundamental aspects of plasticity - why and how metals deform. Despite millennia of metalworking, we lack a predictive model for metal deformation, and this has often been seen as the field's ‘Holy Grail.’ Advancing this quest through maths and material science has been profoundly rewarding, marking just the beginning of an incredible journey!”

Blavatnik Awards
February 19, 2025
Liverpool Physicist Named as 2025 Blavatnik Award Finalist

Professor Brianna Heazlewood, from the University of Liverpool’s Department of Physics, has been named as a finalist in the 2025 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK. This is the first time a University of Liverpool researcher has been shortlisted for this prestigious awards scheme. Professor Heazlewood said: “Thank you to the Blavatnik Awards scheme for this fabulous recognition. It will allow me to share our research into cold chemical reactions with a wider audience, and to celebrate the contributions of our amazing group members and collaborators.” Three winners will be announced at a glittering awards ceremony on Wednesday, 4 March 2025 at Kensington Palace.

Blavatnik Awards
February 19, 2025
Finalists Announced for the 2025 UK Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

The Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences today announced the Finalists for the eighth Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom. The Awards recognise scientific advances by UK researchers across Life Sciences, Chemical Sciences, and Physical Sciences & Engineering. On Wednesday, 4 March, Professor Shitij Kapur, FMedSci, Vice-Chancellor & President, King’s College London, will announce the three 2025 Laureates at a gala dinner and awards ceremony. The three Laureates will each receive an unrestricted award of £100,000. The remaining six Finalists will each receive £30,000.

Blavatnik Awards
February 12, 2025
This Nanotechnology Expert Works with Both Plant and Brain cells

Could Markita Landry’s research group be any more interdisciplinary? Markita Landry is the first to admit that the two applications her research addresses – imaging brain chemistry and delivering genetic material into plants – are rather divergent. Landry’s work pioneering nanoscale chemical tools to address disparate challenges in human health and sustainability saw her named the chemical science laureate at the 2024 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists in the US, for which she received an unrestricted prize of $250,000 (£200,000). She is considering investing some of the money in pursuing a risky strand of research that would otherwise be very difficult to fund.

Blavatnik Awards
February 10, 2025
Anima Anandkumar Highlights AI’s Potential to Solve ‘Hard Scientific Challenges’

Anima Anandkumar, a 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientist Finalist, received the TIME100 AI Impact Award for her work on using AI in prediction models of extreme weather and also in sustainable nuclear fusion simulations as a potential future energy source. Neural operators—a type of AI framework that can learn across multiple scales—are key to Anandkumar’s efforts. Using neural operators, Anandkumar and her collaborators are able to build systems “with universal physical understanding that can simulate any physical process, generate novel engineering designs that were previously out of reach, and make new scientific discoveries,” she said.

Blavatnik Awards
October 29, 2024
Cal Tech Professor and 2022 Blavatnik Awards National Laureate, Hosea Nelson, on the Value of a Chemistry Education

Listen to the Bloomberg Businessweek podcast as Bloomberg News Higher-Education Finance Reporter Janet Lorin and Hosea Nelson, Professor of Chemistry at Cal Tech, discuss why chemistry and science should be taught to encourage students and not to weed them out. Nelson was the 2022 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientist Laureate in Chemistry. He was recognized for his work popularizing a technique called microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED) that can determine the positions of atoms within small molecules with unprecedented detail—particularly small molecules that are useful for drug development and industrial chemical production.

Blavatnik Awards
October 8, 2024
Israeli-American Scientist, Who Won Top US Research Prize, Credits Her Jewish Identity for Her Resilience

Cigall Kadoch was inspired to become a medical researcher as a teenager when her caretaker, whom she saw as a mentor, got sick and died suddenly. Kadoch not only trained as a medical researcher—in college at the University of California, Berkeley and then a doctorate in cancer biology from Stanford School of Medicine—but after establishing her own lab, at age 28, in 2014, she is “one of the youngest scientists ever appointed to the Harvard Medical School faculty,” per her Dana-Farber bio. Last month, she landed one of the most prestigious scientific awards in the United States, the 2024 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. She credits much of her success, and her outlook, to her Jewish identity.

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