IBDG Emerging Investigator Award
Recognising outstanding contributions to any area of biological inorganic chemistry or inorganic biochemistry by early career scientists.
Details
| Status | Open |
|---|---|
| Nominations closing date | 01 December 2025 |
| Nominee location | UK and Ireland |
| Career stage | Early career |
Awarded by the Inorganic Biochemistry Discussion Group
The group serves the UK community of inorganic biochemists and bioinorganic chemists. It encourages activities relating to teaching and research concerning the biological function of those elements whose study is normally considered to be within the purview of inorganic chemistry. The group is for all interested chemists, molecular life scientists and medical researchers interested in the interface between inorganic chemistry and the life/medical sciences.
Winners
Dr Patricia Rodriguez Macia received the Early Career Award in recognition of her interdisciplinary approaches to study mechanism of metalloenzymes and in particular a focus on [FeFe] hydrogenases.
Dr Amanda Chaplin received the Early Career Award in recognition of her achievements from her PhD research at the University of Essex, which encompassed structural and spectroscopic characterisation of copper and iron metalloenzymes. Amanda completed her PhD with Dr Jonathan Worrall at the University of Essex, before undertaking post-doctoral research at the University of Cambridge with Prof Sir Tom Blundell. In January 2022 Amanda started her own research group at the Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, University of Leicester.
About this prize
In 2006, the Inorganic Biochemistry Discussion Group inaugurated a Young Investigator Award designed to highlight and promote the next generation of outstanding UK-based inorganic biochemists.
We continue to acknowledge outstanding contributions to any area of biological inorganic chemistry or inorganic biochemistry by early career scientists through the IBDG Emerging Investigator Award
The award winners will receive a prize and present a lecture at an IBDG sponsored meeting.
Nominees will typically be within 5 years of conferral of their PhD degree and be employed in the UK or Ireland. Allowances will be made for career breaks or other circumstances.
Nominees for either award can self-nominate or be nominated. In either case a CV and a list of publications highlighting the most significant contributions to biological inorganic chemistry should be provided, along with two letters of support from appropriately qualified people (one of which must be the nominator) highlighting the principal achievements in biological inorganic chemistry or inorganic biochemistry.
Nominations must be made by email by the nominee or nominator.