The 2018 Lush Prize

Now in its seventh year, The 2018 Lush Prize offers a global prize fund of £350,000 across five award categories: Lobbying, Training, Public Awareness, Science, and Young Researchers.

We are pleased to announce the 2018 Prize shortlist – 56 projects and scientists from 17 countries made it through to the final judging process.

This year’s prize saw its first entrants from Lebanon, Sri Lanka and Turkey, and a fantastic number of nominations this year from China, South Korea and Brazil in particular.

Judging takes place in September, and the winners will be awarded their prizes at a ceremony in Berlin in November.

Science Prize

For individuals, research teams or institutions for work conducted on relevant toxicity pathways.

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Training Prize

For individuals, teams or organisations establishing training programmes in using non-animal methods.

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Young Researcher Prize

For young scientists (up to 35 years of age) focused on an animal-test free future.

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Public Awareness Prize

For individuals, teams or institutions raising awareness of animal testing.

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Lobbying Prize

For exceptional individuals, groups or organisations pushing for change.

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Black Box Prize

The entire prize fund may be awarded for a key breakthrough in human toxicity pathways research.

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About The Prize

The Lush Prize rewards initiatives across science and campaigning that work to end or replace animal testing, particularly in the area of toxicology research.

Now in our seventh year, we have awarded £1.86 million in prizes, aiming to bring forward the day when safety testing takes place without the use of animals.

We seek to reward those working on replacing, rather than reducing or refining animal experiments.

Latest News

Welcoming the 2018 Lush Customer and Staff lay judges

Each year Lush selects two lay judges to sit alongside the experts, and represent the public opinion on animal testing. We are pleased to welcome Isla Bruce and Professor Elizabeth Kucinich as part of this year’s judging panel.

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2018 Awards Shortlist announced

Every year we build a growing ‘family’ of Lush Prize winners who promote the Prize to colleagues, and this has led to a fantastic number of nominations this year from China, South Korea and Brazil in particular.

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Lush Prize at China Conference on Alternatives

Lush Prize recently spoke at an important conference in China on alternatives to animal testing. As always, Lush Hong Kong team organised an excellent exhibition booth, engaging with delegates and provided further information on the Lush Prize.

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New Young Researcher Judge Announced

This year we have introduced a new ‘Young Researcher Judge’ on the Lush Prize judging panel. Bianca Marigliani has been selected as the judge for 2018.

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