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Dr Will Unsworth has won the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2026 Organic Chemistry mid-career Robert Robinson Prize.

A collaborative team led by Professor Andrew Weller has been awarded a 2026 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Horizon Prize. This team award recognises their pioneering development of Solid-state Molecular OrganoMetallic (SMOM) chemistry.

The 2026 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Horizon Prize at the Chemistry Biology Interface has been awarded to a team including Professor Tony Wilkinson, for collaboration underpinning the development of new tools to deliver the identification, and chemical and genetic validation, of multiple new drug targets for leishmaniasis and Chagas’ disease.

The Royal Society of Chemistry has recognised a major scientific network for its outstanding contribution to the global analytical sciences community.

Three chemistry PhD researchers progressed to the final of the 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at the University of York, winning first and second place overall.

York chemists, working with international collaborators, show that small structural changes to a cisplatin-like platinum compound transform it into a non-toxic antibiotic that clears drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from mice skin infections.

York chemists have developed a new strategy to chemically install diaryl ketones into synthetic peptides, which are at the forefront of modern drug discovery

Researchers from the University of York are part of a partnership that has been awarded more than £900,000 to transform how high-risk chemistry experiments are conducted.