2015 Malcolm Campbell Award winners – Heptares Therapeutics Ltd
The prize for the 2015 Malcolm Campbell Memorial Prize has been awarded
to Miles Congreve, Fiona Marshall and Malcolm Weir for the seminal
contributions to GPCR drug discovery made by Heptares Therapeutics Ltd since
the company was founded in 2007. This work has included building the worldrenowned StaR© technology platform for X-ray crystallography of GPCRs and
the invention of a number of clinical candidates. The winners are particularly
commended on their outstanding publication record, and on their willingness
to release data into the public domain
Sir Simon Campbell presenting the award to the winners: Miles Congreve,
Fiona Marshall and Malcolm Weir (from left to right)
Photo courtesy of Nigel Swain
This year’s award was presented to the winners by Sir Simon Campbell at
the 18th RSC-SCI Medicinal Chemistry Symposium in Cambridge on Wednesday
16th September 2015. The prize is awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry,
Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector biennially and the committee wishes
to express their gratitude for the high-quality entries received from both
academia and industry for the 2015 award