Highlights from the 2025 Blavatnik Awards Ceremony in the United Kingdom

Описание: On March 4, 2025, the Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences celebrated the 2025 Laureates and Finalists of the prestigious Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom at a gala dinner and awards ceremony held at The Orangery at Kensington Palace in London. Professor Shitij Kapur, FMedSci, Vice-Chancellor & President of King’s College London and internationally renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist served as ceremony presenter. He announced the three winning Laureates that evening; each received a £100,000 prize and gave scientific talks at the evening’s celebration.

The winners of this year’s Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists (UK) are:

Life Sciences Laureate: Prof. Christopher Stewart (Newcastle University): Christopher leads a laboratory where groundbreaking research on microbiome-based therapies for pre-natal infant mortality is already making a life-saving impact.

Chemical Sciences Laureate: Prof. Liam Ball (University of Nottingham): Liam has transformed green manufacturing on an industrial scale, developing safer and more efficient methods of producing pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals with minimal environmental impact.

Physical Sciences & Engineering Laureate: Prof. Benjamin Mills (University of Leeds): Benjamin is transforming our understanding of climate change on earth and in space with revolutionary methods to predict long-term climate change. His research not only uncovers Earth’s climate history over billions of years, but also how other planets might evolve to support life.

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