Skip to content
Go
Awards
Dr Nikki Cardoso in BSL 3 Tuberculosis Biology lab handling Mycobacterium tuberculosis {Credit H3D)
Royal Society Africa Prize
Nominations now open
The call for nominations is now open. Please ensure you read through the guidance document fully.
The Royal Society is encouraging nominations of joint collaborations, groups or teams for almost all its medals to better represent how contemporary science is undertaken. In addition, the Society is extremely keen to broaden the diversity of those nominated for its awards, so do please consider all contacts and colleagues.
You do not have to be a Fellow of the Royal Society to nominate or to be nominated for any of the Royal Society medals and awards.
Nominations close on Friday 23 February 2024 at 23:59 GMT.
Royal Society Africa Prize winner 2023
Professor Kelly Chibale (credit: H3D)
The Royal Society Africa Prize 2023 is awarded to Professor Kelly Chibale for exceptional leadership and groundbreaking work in drug discovery for African endemic diseases.
The award
The Royal Society Africa Prize is to recognise research scientists based in Africa who are making an innovative contribution to the sciences. The medal is of bronze, awarded annually and is accompanied by a gift of £2,000. The prize was previously the Royal Society Pfizer Award which was last awarded in 2016.
Eligibility
The Royal Society Africa Prize is open to African citizens. The Prize is intended for researchers at a senior stage of their research career with the potential to build a research project to follow on from the prize. Nominations will remain valid and shall be considered by the award selection committee throughout three nomination cycles.
The terms and conditions of the Royal Society Africa Prize (PDF) should be read before submitting a nomination.
Please note: If you would like to nominate an early career scientist in the field of physical, mathematical and engineering science based in Africa, then please see Rising Star Africa Prize .
Nominations
Nominations are now open.
Past winners
Professor Novel Njweipi Chegou was awarded the Royal Society Africa Prize 2022 for his work in the fields of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis, and his innovative project proposal.
Professor George Warimwe was awarded the Royal Society Africa Prize 2021 for his work on zoonoses vaccine development, capacity building in Africa, and his innovative research proposal.
Dr Steven Runo was awarded the Royal Society Africa Prize 2020 for elucidating pathways for long distance RNA trafficking between parasitic plants and their hosts and identifying and developing transgenic protocol for characterizing and validating candidate host and parasite genes.
Dr Henry Mwandumba was awarded the Royal Society Africa Prize 2019 for his novel work in description of the TB phagosome in HIV infected alveolar macrophages and his leadership in the College of Medicine in Malawi.