Please find links to awards accepting nominations listed below – last update October 28, 2025
IUPAC-Soong Prize for Sustainable Chemistry
The IUPAC award is a high-profile prize to be awarded annually to an outstanding scientist for a breakthrough or conceptual advance, highlighting the discovery rather than the laureate’s luminous career.
The Prize laureate will receive a certificate, a medal, a monetary award of $30,000 (USD), and travel expenses to reach the prize ceremony . In addition to the prize ceremony, the awardee will be invited to present a lecture at the National Taiwan University within two years of receiving the award.
◷ Due date for nominations: November 15, 2025
ACS National Awards
The American Chemical Society (ACS) awards recognize outstanding contributions in chemistry, doctoral research, public service, commercialization of new products, and more. Candidates from diverse backgrounds and groups within the chemistry enterprise are encouraged to apply.
◷ Due date for nominations/applications: November 1, 2025
EuChemS Industry Innovation Award
The award honors outstanding achievements by researchers or teams of researchers working for industrial companies in the field of chemistry, or jointly by research teams from academia and/or from other research institutions.
◷ Due date for nominations: December 15, 2025
EuChemS Historical Landmarks
The award designates sites in Europe where events in chemistry (be it social, theoretical, experimental, pedagogic, industrial, …) occurred that have been important to the European or local (regional) chemical community and/or have inspired a sense of European or local (regional) belonging.
◷ Due date for nominations: December 15, 2025
EuChemS Award for Service
The award honors outstanding commitment with regard to fostering Chemistry in Europe and the goals of EuChemS.
◷ Due date for nominations: December 15, 2025
Future Insight™ Prize 2026
Sponsored by Merck KGaA
The award aims to stimulate innovative solutions to solve some of humanities greatest problems and to realize the dreams for a better tomorrow in the areas of health, nutrition, and energy. The EUR 1,000,000 prize is being awarded in 2026 to pioneers in the field of preventive medicine/early intervention – Smart Health Sensor.
Regenerative medicine deals with the “process of replacing, engineering or regenerating human or animal cells, tissues or organs to restore or establish normal function”.
◷ Due date for nominations: December 31, 2025
EFMC Awards 2026
The awards honor outstanding achievements in the field of Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology. The Awards will be presented during the EFMC International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC Medicinal Chemistry 2026).
- The Nauta Pharmacochemistry Award for Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology will be given for outstanding achievements in scientific research including contributions to the development of international organizational structures in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
- The UCB-Ehrlich Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry acknowledges and recognizes outstanding research in the field of Medicinal Chemistry in its broadest sense by a young scientist. This Award has been established with the support of UCB Pharma.
- The Prous Institute – Overton and Meyer Award for New Technologies in Drug Discovery honors innovation and investigation in technological development related to drug discovery. It was established with the support of the Prous Institute and will be given for the discovery, evaluation, or use of new technologies.
◷ Due date for nominations: January 31, 2026
DECHEMA Innovation Award
The award honors interdisciplinary teams that develop outstanding technical, engineering, or scientific innovations in chemical and biotechnological fields, advancing international research and technology. Open to European companies in collaboration with partners, the award recognizes solutions already implemented or nearing industrial application, offering a certificate, a trophy, and a platform for a public lecture.
◷ Due date for applications: January 31, 2026
EurJIC-Wöhler Young Investigator Prize 2026
Sponsored by Chemistry Europe
The award of the Wöhler Vereinigung für Anorganische Chemie (Wöhler Association for Inorganic Chemistry), a division of the GDCh (German Chemical Society), and the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (EurJIC) honors a young scientist of any nationality who has completed a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in chemistry for an excellent scientific publication in a field within inorganic chemistry. The selected paper, in which the candidate appears as correspondence author, should have been published within two years before the nomination. The nominee will be an independent researcher, but not yet in an established academic or industrial position.
Eligible for nomination are researchers in industry or academia with responsibility in an appropriate field. The prize is endowed with EUR 1500 and a lecture at the GDCh Conference on Inorganic Chemistry.
◷ Due date for nominations: March 30, 2026
E-mail to Nicole Bürger, GDCh: [email protected]
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