The Royal Society Africa Prize (formerly known as the Royal Society Pfizer Prize) has been awarded by the
Royal Society since 2006 to African-based researchers at the start of their career who are making innovative contributions to the biological sciences in Africa. £60,000 is awarded as a grant for the recipient to carry out a research project that is linked to an African centre of scientific excellence, normally a University or equivalent research centre, and a further £5,000 is given directly to the prizewinner.
The final award under the Pfizer name was made in 2016, after which the award was renamed the Royal Society Africa Prize, and consists of a grant of £11,000 and a gift of £1000.
Recipients
Source
Royal Society; Royal Society Pfizer Prize
* 2006:
Alexis Nzila
* 2007:
Hiba Mohamed, ''for her pioneering research into genetic susceptibility to leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease transmitted by sand fly bites''
* 2008:
Enock Matovu
* 2009:
Linda-Gail Bekker
Linda-Gail Bekker MBChB, DTMH, DCH, FCP(SA) is a Professor of Medicine and Chief Operating Officer of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation. She is also Director of the Desmund Tutu HIV Centre at the University of Cape Town. She is a Past President ...
, director of the
Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, ''for her outstanding research into tuberculosis and HIV co-infections in Africa''
* 2010:
Collins Ouma of
Maseno University, ''for his outstanding research into the effect of genetic variation in severe malarial anaemia (SMA) in children.''
* 2011:
Julie Makani of the
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine and
Muhimbili University
Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) is a public university in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. It is accredited by the Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU).
Location
As of June 2018, the university had two campuses:
* The M ...
, Tanzania, ''for her outstanding research into using anaemia in sickle cell disease as a model for translating genetic research into health benefits''
* 2012:
Martin Ota, ''for his outstanding research into the relationship of pneumococcal protein antibody levels to nasopharyngeal carriage of pneumococci in early infancy''.
* 2013:
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People with this name include:
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, ''for his important work on the identification of mosquito swarming cues''
* 2014:
Faith Osier
Faith Hope Among’in Osier is a Kenyan immunologist, paediatrician and educator.
Education
Faith Osier was born in Kenya in 1972. trained the University of Nairobi, where she obtained her MBChB degree in 1996. She worked in the Coast General ...
, ''for her research on understanding the mechanisms of immunity to malaria infection in man''
* 2015:
Gordon A Awandare, ''for his achievements in molecular and cellular studies of malaria, including how malaria parasites invade red blood cells and cause disease'' and
Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum
Jean-Jacques Muyembe is a Congolese microbiologist. He is the general director of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Institut National pour la Recherche Biomedicale (''INRB''). He was part of team at the Yambuku Catholic Mission Hospital that ...
, ''for his seminal work on viral haemorrhagic fevers, including Ebola, generating the foundation of our understanding of the epidemiology, clinical manifestations and control of outbreaks of these viral infections''.
* 2016:
Amina Abubakar, ''for her pioneering psychological research in East Africa and her work developing neurodevelopmental assessments''.
; Royal Society Africa Prize
* 2017:
Allasane Dicko ''for his contribution to research into malaria control''
* 2018:
Dorothy Yeboah-Manu
Dorothy Yeboah-Manu is a microbiologist and Professor at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research at the University of Ghana. She studies host and pathogen interactions and epidemiology. She won the 2018 Royal Society Africa Prize.
...
''or her contributions and innovative approaches to understanding Mycobacterium ulcerans and Mycobacterium africanum''
* 2019:
Henry Mwandumba ''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''
* 2020:
Steven Runo
Steven Runo is a Kenyan researcher who is a professor at Kenyatta University. Runo has extensively studied the pathogens of African cereal crops, including ''Striga''. He was awarded the 2020 Royal Society Africa Prize.
Early life and educatio ...
''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.''
* 2021:
George Warimwe
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* George Washington, First President of the United States
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''for his work on zoonoses vaccine development, capacity building in Africa, and his innovative research proposal''
* 2022:
Novel Njweipi Chegou
Novel Njweipi Chegou is a Cameroonian molecular biologist who is a professor at the Stellenbosch University Immunology Research Group. His research considers pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis. He leads the Diagnostics Research Laboratory. ...
''for his work in the fields of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis, and his innovative project proposal.''
See also
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List of biology awards
References
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Awards established in 2006
Awards of the Royal Society
Biology awards
2006 in science
Early career awards