Malcolm Campbell Memorial Prize
The Malcolm Campbell Memorial Prize is awarded biennially by the RSC BMCS to commemorate Professor Campbell’s outstanding contributions in a broad range of chemistry and their applications to the understanding of bioactivity. The award comprises £2000 and a medal as well as one free attendance at an RSC BMCS conference in the year of the award.
Malcolm Campbell Memorial Prize 2021 – Call for Nominations
The BMCS are now actively seeking nominations for this biennial prize, invited from an individual or team who has made the most significant scientific contribution to biological chemistry. The prize-winner(s) may be from academia or industry, and their work should be timely and contemporaneous. The Prize has a value of £2,000, and is presented at the next RSC/ SCI Cambridge MedChem symposium. Please see the PDF below for more information.
Criteria
- Submissions are invited from individuals or teams in industry and academia with a British research centre mailing address although work may be from several worldwide groups.
- Seminal publications which may include presentations in the public domain and/or patents from the submitting individual or team relating to work of biological and/or medicinal chemistry interest including discovery, process development, agrochemical and aromachemical research.
- Submissions may be a culmination of a series of papers published in recent years prior to the award.
- Submissions must be accompanied by written permission from Heads of Department or Managers for the release of the work details.
- All submissions should be sent to the Conference Secretariat.
- The closing date for the 2021 Memorial Prize is 31st October 2020.
Malcolm Campbell Memorial Prize 2019 – Announcement of Winners
The Royal Society of Chemistry Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector is proud to announce the winners of the Malcolm Campbell Memorial Prize for 2019.
The prize has been awarded to Dr Christopher W. Murray, Astex Pharmaceuticals, Dr Patrick Angibaud, Janssen-Cilag and Professor Herbie Newell, Northern Institute for Cancer Research (NICR), Newcastle University as representatives of the wider team who collaborated to discover and develop erdafitinib.
The BMCS Committee wishes to express its gratitude for the high-quality entries from both academia and industry for the 2019 prize.
The Malcolm Campbell Memorial Prize commemorates Professor Campbell’s outstanding contributions in a broad range of chemistry and their applications to the understanding of bioactivity.
The prize was presented formally to the winning team during the 20th RSC/ SCI Medicinal Chemistry Symposium, held at Churchill College, Cambridge on 8th–11th September 2019.

Malcolm Campbell Memorial Prize – Previous Winners
2017
Osimertinib Team
AstraZeneca
Development of TAGRISSOTM
2015
Miles Congreve, Fiona Marshall and Malcom Weir
Heptares
GPCR drug discovery
2013
BrilintaTM/BriliqueTM Team
AstraZeneca
Development of BrilintaTM/BriliqueTM
2011
Paul O’Neill, Kevin Park and Stephen Ward
University of Liverpool
Research and Development of Anti-Malaria Agents
2009
Lawrence Woo and Barry Potter
University of Bath
Atul Purohit and Michael Reed
Imperial College, London
Discovery of Steroid Sulfatase Inhibitors
2007
Jonathan Bennett, Anton Bom, Alan Muir, Ronald Palin, David Rees and Ming Zhang
Organon
Development of Sugammadex
2005§
David O’Hagan
University of St Andrews
Research on Fluorinating Enzymes
2005§
Tony Wood
Pfizer
Development of CCR5 Antagonists
2003
Malcolm Stevens, Andrew Westwell & Tracy Bradshaw
Cancer Research UK
Discovery of the Anticancer Compound Fortress & Related Work
§ Joint winners
A history of the Prize is available to download.