Suffrage Science award

Suffrage Science Award
Suffrage Science Award
Awarded for	"celebrating and inspiring women in science"
Sponsored by	Medical Research Council and Department of Biochemistry, Oxford University
Date	2011
Location	London and from 2024 in Oxford
Country	United Kingdom
Reward	Heirloom jewellery
Website	www.suffragescience.com

The Suffrage Science award is a prize for women in science, engineering and computing founded in 2011, on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day by the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS). There are three categories of award:

The life sciences award was founded in 2011. Every year there are 10 laureates from research backgrounds and one laureate for communication. The engineering and physical sciences award was founded in 2013. Every year there are 12 laureates from areas spanning physics, chemistry and more. The math and computing award was launched on Ada Lovelace Day, 2016. Every year there are five laureates from mathematics, five laureates from computing and one laureate for science communication and the public awareness of science.

Laureates

Laureates have included:

2026

Life Sciences

Chrystalina Antoniades, University of Oxford
Sarah Cooley, Earth Science Data Professionals Organization
Cara Croft, Queen Mary University of London
Camille Dion, Medical Sciences, London
Dima A. Hammoud, NIH Clinical Centre
Karoline Kuchenbaecker, University College, London
Madeline Lancaster, LMB, Cambridge
Liset Menéndez de la Prida, Instituto Cajal CSIC, Spain
Arwen Pearson, University of Hamburg
Kate Watkins, University of Oxford
Dana Pe'er, HHMI, US

2026

Maths and Computing

Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Vanessa Didelez, University of Bremen, Germany
Susanne Bødker, Aarhus University, Denmark
Anne Gégout-Petit, University of Lorraine, France
Sara Bernardini [Wikidata], University of Oxford
Judy Robertson, University of Edinburgh
Els Goetghebeur, Ghent University, Belgium
Azalea Raad, Imperial College, London
Anja Schlömerkemper, Universitat Würzburg, Germany

2025

Engineering and Physical Sciences

Alice Bunn, OBE, Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Danielle Julie Carrier, University of Tennessee
Francisca de Haan, Central European University
Iryna Herzon, University of Helsinki
Peace Korshiwor Amoatey, University of Ghana
Catherine Le Visage, Nantes Université
Priyamvada Natarajan, Yale University
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, University of California, Santa Barbara
Rachel Oliver, University of Cambridge
Suzanne Ramsay [Wikidata], European Southern Observatory
Jayne Wallace, Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Gerlind Wallon [Wikidata], European Molecular Biology Organization

2024

Life Sciences winners are:

Areej Abuhammad, University of Jordan, Jordan
Prisca Liberali, FMI, Basel
Frederique Magdinier, Marseille Medical Genetics, France
Azahara Oliva, Cornell University
Lynn Rochester, University of Newcastle
Marta Shahbazi, MRC LMB, Cambridge
Monica Shokeen, Washington University School of Medicine
Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, UCL Institute of Child Health, London
Selina Wray, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London

2021

Engineering and Physical Sciences winners are:

Gaitee Hussain [Wikidata], European Space Agency, The Netherlands
Syma Khalid, University of Southampton, UK
Natalie Stingelin, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Ina van Berckelaer-Onnes [Wikidata], Leiden University, The Netherlands
Hayaatun Sillem, CBE, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK
Ruth Cameron, University of Cambridge, UK
Elin Röös [Wikidata], Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Maria Dolores Martín Bermudo [Wikidata], Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Spain
Samaya Nissanke, University of Amsterdam and Nikhef, The Netherlands
Gerjo van Osch, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Valérie Orsat [Wikidata], McGill University, Canada
Mary Anti Chama, University of Ghana, Ghana