2026 Prize Winners
Congratulations to the twelve winning and four commended projects, for Lush Prize 2026.
From ten countries, the projects were selected by the independent panel of judges as representing outstanding work to end the use of animals in research, testing and education, and the winners share the £250,000 prize fund.
See the shortlist of 60 projects from which the winners were chosen.
SCIENCE PRIZE
Awarded to: Biosensing, Microfluidics, and Microsystems Team, Female Reproductive Health Team, Wyss Institute of Harvard University, USA
Project: Next-Generation Sensor-Integrated Human Organ Chips for Biomedical and Women’s Health Research
Prize: £50,000
PUBLIC AWARENESS PRIZE
Judges selected two joint-winners.
Awarded to: Animal-Free Science Advocacy, Australia
Project: Honour Me With a Name
Prize: £25,000
Awarded to: Animal Justice, Canada
Project: Shutting Down St. Joseph’s Hospital Dog Lab & Sparking New Dog and Cat Testing Laws
Prize: £25,000
Also Commended
Commended: Camp Beagle, UK
Project: Camp Beagle
Commended: Organization for Animal Rights and the Environment EVA, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Project: Animal-Free Education Reform for Biomedical Faculties in Bosnia and Herzegovina
TRAINING PRIZE
Judges selected two joint-winners.
Awarded to: Dr Silvya Engler, Brazil
Project: Advancing Non-Animal Toxicology Through Large-Scale Training and Open-Access Human Skin Models in Brazil
Prize: £25,000
Awarded to: Laboratorio de Métodos Alternativos, Argentina
Project: Advancing Alternative Methods in Argentina and LATAM: The Role of LMA in Promoting Non-Animal Toxicity Testing
Prize: £25,000
POLITICAL ADVOCACY PRIZE
Awarded to: Lindsey Borton and Dr Kelly Coleman, USA
Project: Science-Driven Advocacy to Eliminate the Rabbit Pyrogen Test for Medical Devices
Prize: £50,000
Also Commended
Commended: Dr Karynn Capilé, Brazil
Project: Replacing Animals in Rabies Diagnosis in Brazil
YOUNG RESEARCHER PRIZES
Awarded to: Dr Adam Fellows, Royal Veterinary College, UK
Project: Bioengineered Arteries to Replace Animal Use in Cardiovascular Research
Prize: £10,000
Awarded to: Dr Alicja Mikołajczyk, University of Gdansk, Poland
Project: From QSAR to MINTOX and Nano-QSARmix: Computational Nanotoxicology for Animal-Free Joint Toxicity Assessment of Advanced Nano-Mixtures
Prize: £10,000
Awarded to: Dr Marion Revel, Eawag – Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland
Project: Describing the Applicability Domain of NAMs: a case study considering stakeholder perspectives to improve uptake of non-animal methods.
Prize: £10,000
Awarded to: Dr Jonne Rietdijk, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA, and Uppsala University, Sweden
Project: Integrating Multi-omics Data to Accelerate Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP)
Prize: £10,000
Awarded to: Dr Rahul Rimal, EMPA, Switzerland
Project: Multi-compartment Bioreactor-based Models to Mimic Systemic Toxicity in Burns
Prize: £10,000
Also Commended
Commended: Dr Kate Mintram, Brunel University London, UK
Project: FishGAN: A Generative AI Model for Advanced Toxicity Prediction in Environmental Risk Assessments.
MAJOR SCIENCE COLLABORATION PRIZE
Awarded to: Animal-Free Safety Assessment (AFSA) Collaboration
Prize: This is a non-financial award.
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