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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.

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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, 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, 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: Abdoulaye Diabate, for his important work on the identification of mosquito swarming cues
2014: Faith Osier, 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, 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 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 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 for his work on zoonoses vaccine development, capacity building in Africa, and his innovative research proposal
2022: Novel Njweipi Chegou for his work in the fields of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis, and his innovative project proposal.
2023: Kelly Chibale for exceptional leadership and groundbreaking work in drug discovery for African endemic diseases
2024: Ali Baklouti for his work on non-commutative harmonic analysis and geometry on homogeneous spaces

References

"The Royal Society Pfizer Award". The Royal Society. Retrieved 14 August 2010.
"Royal Society Africa Prize". Royal Society. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
"The Royal Society announces this year's medal and award winners | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2022-08-25.

v t e Awards, lectures and medals of the Royal Society
Awards	Armourers and Brasiers' Company Prize GlaxoSmithKline Prize Michael Faraday Prize Milner Award Mullard Award Royal Society Africa Prize Royal Society Prizes for Science Books
Prize lectures	Crick Lecture Ferrier Lecture Leeuwenhoek Lecture Paterson Lecture Rosalind Franklin Award Rutherford Memorial Lecture Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture
Fellowships	Fellow of the Royal Society Royal Society University Research Fellowship Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships Newton Advanced Fellowships Royal Society Research Professorship Industry Fellowships Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships
Premier Medals	Copley Medal (highest award of the Royal Society) Bakerian Medal Croonian Medal Royal Medal
Medals	Darwin Medal Davy Medal Buchanan Medal Gabor Medal Hughes Medal Kavli Medal Leverhulme Medal Rumford Medal Sylvester Medal
Previous awards	Bernal Lecture Esso Energy Award Florey Lecture Kohn Award Medawar Lecture Pfizer Award Philips Lecture Pilgrim Trust Lecture Tercentenary Lectures Wilkins Lecture Microsoft Award UK-Canada Rutherford Lecture Blackett Memorial Lecture Humphry Davy Lecture Claude Bernard Lecture

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