Royal Society Africa Prize Facts for Kids

The Royal Society Africa Prize is a special award given by the Royal Society. It started in 2006. This prize celebrates young scientists in Africa. They must be doing amazing new work in biological sciences. This means they study living things, like plants, animals, and humans.

Winners used to get a large grant of £60,000 for their research. They also received £5,000 for themselves. The award changed its name from the Royal Society Pfizer Prize in 2016. Now, winners get a grant of £11,000 and £1,000 for themselves. This prize helps brilliant African scientists continue their important work.

Prize Winners

This section lists the amazing scientists who have won the Royal Society Africa Prize and its earlier name.

Royal Society Pfizer Prize

2006: Alexis Nzila
2007: Hiba Mohamed, for her important research on a disease called leishmaniasis, which is spread by sand flies.
2008: Enock Matovu
2009: Linda-Gail Bekker, for her great research on tuberculosis (TB) and HIV in Africa.
2010: Collins Ouma of Maseno University, for his important research on how genes affect severe malaria in children.
2011: Julie Makani of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine and Muhimbili University, Tanzania, for her great research on sickle cell disease, a blood disorder.
2012: Martin Ota, for his research on how the body fights off certain bacteria in babies.
2013: Abdoulaye Diabate, for his important work on how mosquitoes find each other to swarm.
2014: Faith Osier, for her research on how people become immune to malaria.
2015: Gordon A Awandare, for his achievements in studying malaria, including how the parasites attack red blood cells. Also, Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, for his key work on diseases like Ebola, helping us understand how they spread and how to control them.
2016: Amina Abubakar, for her new research in psychology in East Africa and creating ways to check brain development.

Royal Society Africa Prize

2017: Allasane Dicko for his work on controlling malaria.
2018: Dorothy Yeboah-Manu for her new ways of understanding certain bacteria, Mycobacterium ulcerans and Mycobacterium africanum.
2019: Henry Mwandumba for his new work on how TB affects cells in the lungs of people with HIV. He also showed great leadership in Malawi.
2020: Steven Runo for finding out how plants communicate over long distances, especially between parasitic plants and their hosts.
2021: George Warimwe for his work on developing vaccines for diseases that can spread from animals to humans.
2022: Novel Njweipi Chegou for his work on different types of tuberculosis and his new research ideas.
2023: Kelly Chibale for his amazing leadership and important work in finding new medicines for diseases common in Africa.

Royal Society Africa Prize facts for kids

Prize Winners

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