The ACS International Award for Research in Agrochemicals is given to a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to the field of agrochemicals at the international level. Their vision and sustained contributions will have opened new horizons for other investigators in their field and beyond. Nominations are now being sought for the 2022 Award winner to be presented at the ACS Fall 2023 National Meeting in San Francisco, California. This award includes an honorarium of $5000 USD. Deadline for nominations is December 31, 2021. For details on the nomination process, see the the Call for Nominations.
For more information, please contact Qing Li, AGRO Awards Committee Chair, 808-956-2011.
2021 Award Recipient
David B. Sattelle received his PhD in Zoology from the University of Cambridge in 1971 working on invertebrate neurobiology and joined the Cambridge – based AFRC Unit of Invertebrate Chemistry and Physiology. The award of a Sir Henry Wellcome Travel Fellowship enabled him to work at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, USA.
On returning to Cambridge he led a group working on invertebrate neurotransmitter receptors and ion channels, molecules which include important targets for anthelmintic drugs and insecticides. He was awarded the 1983 Pfizer Academic Award for his research in this field. He was elected a Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge, where he directed studies in Natural Sciences (Biology). David’s work on the receptors and channels of identified insect neurons and the cloning and functional expression of insect and nematode neurotransmitter receptors has contributed to our understanding of the molecular targets of many crop protection chemicals and animal health drugs. These include pyrethroids, neonicotinoids, levamisole and many others.
In 1999, David moved to Oxford to join the MRC Functional Genomics Unit as Head of Neural Signalling and was appointed Professor of Molecular Neurobiology in 2000. In Oxford he explored the utility of invertebrate genetic model organisms (Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster) in understanding human nervous system and neuromuscular diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy and congenital myasthenia. Such models offer low-cost, high-throughput chemical and genetic screens in the search for new chemical leads and new drug targets. He was appointed a Fellow of Wolfson College. In Oxford, David also worked on the first reported genome of a pest insect species (flour beetle) and the first completed genome of a beneficial insect species (honeybee) as well as the first genome of an insect used in biological control (a parasitoid wasp).
He then served as Head of Neural Systems and Professor of Molecular Neurobiology at The University of Manchester and is currently Research Associate Professor of Molecular Neurobiology at University College London. Recently he has worked on the genomes of the Lyme disease tick and the mosquito vector of dengue, yellow fever, and zika. He has also developed an invertebrate automated phenotyping platform (INVAPP) which facilitates both chemical and genetic screening. This technology has been applied in the search for new drugs for human nervous system and neuromuscular disorders and new chemical leads to combat neglected tropical diseases in situations where mosquito vector control is threatened by resistance to current insecticides and where there is an urgent need for an effective anthelmintic to control human whipworm. His 363 papers have nearly 20,000 citations, and he has and h-index of 77. He is Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of CeBioscience Ltd. David is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, The Royal Society of Biology and a Member of The Academy of Europe.
Past Awardees
2020
Qing X. Li, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa, Hawai‘i
2019
Vincent L. Salgado, BASF, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
2018
Stephen Powles, University of Western Australia, Australia
2017
Jeffrey Bloomquist, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
2016
Yoshihisa Ozoe, Shimane University, Japan
2015
Keith D. Wing, formerly of Rohm and Haas and DuPont Crop Protection, Wilmington, DE
2014
Ralf Nauen, Bayer CropScience, Monheim, Germany
2013
René Feyereisen, National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA), France
2012
Thomas C. Sparks, Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN
2011
George P. Lahm, DuPont Crop Science, Newark, Delaware
2010
Shinzo Kagabu, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
2009
R. Donald Wauchope, USDA-ARS (retired), Tifton, Georgia
2008
David M. Soderlund, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2007
Gerald T. Brooks, University of Sussex (retired), Brighton, UK
2007
Fredrick J. Perlak, Monsanto, St. Louis, Missouri
2006
Joel Coats, Iowa State University, Ames
2006
Isamu Yamaguchi, Agricultural Chemicals Inspection Station, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Robert Krieger, University of California-Riverside
2005
Janice E. Chambers, Mississippi State University, Starkville
2004
Stephen Duke, USDA-ARS, Oxford, Mississippi
2004
John Marshall Clark, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
2003
Hideo Ohkawa, Kobe University, Japan
2003
Bob Hollingworth, Michigan State University, East Lansing
2002
Marinus Los, American Cyanamid, Princeton, New Jersey
2002
Keith Solomon, University of Guelph, Canada
2001
Ralph Mumma, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
2001
Donald Crosby, University of California-Davis
2000
Herbert B. Scher, Zeneca, Richmond, California
2000
George P. Georghiou, University of California-Riverside
1999
James Seiber, University of Nevada-Reno
1999
Don Baker, Zeneca, Richmond, California
1998
Leslie Crombie, University of Nottingham, England
1998
George Levitt, DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware
1997
Izuru Yamamoto, University of Tokyo, Japan
1997
Fritz Führ, Institute of Chemistry and Dynamic, Jülich, Germany
1996
Klaus Naumann, Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany
1996
Günther Voss, Ciba, Basel, Switzerland
1995
Mohyee Eldefrawi, University of Maryland-Baltimore
1995
Koji Nakanishi, Columbia University, New York, New York
1994
Toshio Fujita, Kyoto University, Japan
1993
Morifusa Eto, Kyushu University, Fukoka, Japan
1992
Bruce Hammock, University of California-Davis
1991
Stuart Frear, USDA-ARS, Fargo, North Dakota
1990
David Schooley, University of Nevada-Reno
1989
Toshio Narahashi, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
1988
Ernest Hodgson, North Carolina State University
1987
Fumio Matsumura, Michigan State University, East Lansing
1986
James Tumlinson, USDA-ARS, Gainesville, Florida
1985
Junshi Miyamoto, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Japan
1984
Jacques Jean Martel, Roussel Uclaf, Paris, France
1983
Karl Heinz Buechel, Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany
1982
Jack R. Plimmer, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, Maryland
1981
Philip C. Kearney, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, Maryland
1980
Minoru Nakajima, Kyoto University, Japan
1979
Milton S. Schechter, USDA-ARS (retired), Beltsville, Maryland
1978
Julius J. Menn, Stauffer Chemical Co., Mountain View, California
1977
Francis A. Gunther, University of California-Riverside
1976
Morton Beroza, USDA-ARS (retired), Beltsville, Maryland
1975
Michael Elliot, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, England
1974
T. Roy Fukuto, University of California-Riverside
1973
Hubert Martin, British Crop Protection Council, London, England
1972
Ralph L. Wain, Wye College, University of London,England
1971
Robert L. Metcalf, University of Illinois, Champagne-Urban
1970
Richard D. O’Brien, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1969
John E. Casida, University of California-Berkley