The AstraZeneca Chemistry Awards started twenty years ago as a way of rewarding and encouraging innovative chemistry at US academic institutions. In Canada the programme started in 2003.

Recipients of the Excellence in Chemistry Award are chosen by a panel of AstraZeneca senior scientists along with the contributions of a world-leading senior academic chemist who also serves as a distinguished lecturer for that year’s symposium.

The recipients all get a research grant intended to help foster continued growth and development of their research programs.

2004 Chemistry Award recipients

In the US	for outstanding contributions in the field of
Professor Dirk Trauner University of California at Berkeley	Synthetic methodology and target oriented synthesis to chemical biology and molecular neurobiology
Professor Brian Stoltz California Institute of Technology	Synthetic chemistry, new reaction methodologies
Senior academic advisor:	Professor Ronald Breslow Columbia University
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In Canada	for outstanding contributions in the field of
Professor Peter Wilson Simon Fraser University	Organic synthesis
Professor Dennis Hall University of Alberta	Organoboron chemistry and solid-phase organic synthesis
Senior academic advisor:	Professor Alex Fallis University of Ottawa
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