STEM for Britain 2026 Winners
Congratulations to this year's medal winners presenting their research at the Houses of Parliament.
The Westminster Medal
The Westminster Medal for the overall winner is awarded in memory of the late Dr Eric Wharton, who did so much to establish SET for Britain as a regular event in the Parliamentary calendar. Presented by the Society of Chemical Industry, it recognises the early-career scientist presenting the best poster at the event.
Congratulations to our 2026 Westminster Medal Winner
Ané Kritzinger
University of St Andrews · Physics
Towards safer spirits: non-invasive detection of methanol in sealed bottles using Raman spectroscopy
Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Gold
Zoe Marshall
The James Hutton Institute
Using the ancient Scottish Bere barley landrace to genetically map manganese-use efficiency and improve nutrient use in British crops.
Silver
Aniketh Bishnu
University of Dundee
Pharmacological activation of AMPK as a therapeutic approach for FBXL4-related encephalomyopathic Mitochondrial DNA Depletion Syndrome (MTDPS13)
Bronze
Katie Dunmore
University of Exeter
Mapping Atlantic Bluefin Tuna and Iberian Orca Spatial Overlap for Conservation Insights: An Ecological Niche Model Approach
Nutrition Society Prize
Victoria Norton
University of Reading
CLOSING THE FIBRE GAP – DEVELOPING A NOVEL FIBRE SCREENING TOOL (SCREEN-IT) FOR THE UK POPULATION: VALIDATION, REPRODUCIBILITY AND USABILITY INSIGHTS
Physiological Society Prize
Puja Mehta
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
Design of a state-of-the-art Motor Neuron Disease gene therapy that restores nerve growth and transmission between motor nerves
Chemistry
Gold
Andrea Rogolino
University of Cambridge
Photocatalyst/plastic composite floating at the liquid-liquid interface for chemical synthesis under sunlight
Silver
Jody Cheong
National Physical Laboratory
THE PATH TO CLEANER AIR: A PIONEERING INTER-LABORATORY STUDY ON BRAKE WEAR EMISSIONS FROM ROAD VEHICLES
Bronze
Jamie Gravell
Imperial College London
Tracking Fluidity Changes During Neurodegenerative Disease: Protein Phase Separation or Aggregation?
Engineering
Gold
Joni Wildman
University of Bath
Using Fungi to Transform Waste into Sustainable Insulation
Silver
Tian Yuan
Imperial College London
DECODING BRAIN FLUID TRANSPORT FOR PRECISION DRUG DELIVERY
Bronze
Goronwy Tawy
University of Southampton
A new display technology using nonlinear wavemixing for smart glasses
Mathematical Sciences
Gold
Torin Fastnedge
University of Oxford
Mathematical modelling of microfibre release by washing machines
Silver
Zita Borbala Fulop
University of Glasgow
Personalised Brain Cancer Treatment: Improving Drug Delivery with Electric Field
Bronze
Freya Bull
University College London
Predicting the incidence of catheter-associated bacteriuria
Physics
Gold
Ané Kritzinger
University of St Andrews
Towards safer spirits: non-invasive detection of methanol in sealed bottles using Raman spectroscopy
Silver
Fraser Birks
University of Warwick
Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials Applied to Helium–Tungsten Implantation in Fusion Systems
Bronze
Isabelle Rogers
University of Leeds
Cancer cell-selective delivery of RNA therapies using fusogenic silica nanoparticles