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Willem KuykenSubject Award Winner 2026
Professor of Mindfulness and Psychological Science at the University of Oxford, Willem Kuyken researches how psychological approaches prevent depression. He led the multi-institution MYRIAD cluster randomised controlled trial with Cambridge, UCL, Exeter and King's College London, evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of universal school-based mindfulness training for adolescent mental health.
Christl Donnelly
Professor of Applied Statistics at Oxford, Christl Donnelly applies statistical epidemiology to infectious disease outbreaks. As part of the multi-institution REACT-1 collaboration with Imperial College London she analysed community swab surveillance across England, detecting the resurgence of SARS-CoV-2 in real time and informing national decisions on pandemic interventions.
Martin Landray
Professor Sir Martin Landray designs and leads efficient large scale randomised trials at Oxford Population Health and co-led the RECOVERY trial. He is a co-author of the RECOVERY Collaborative Group report in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that dexamethasone reduces mortality in hospitalised COVID-19 patients receiving respiratory support.
Melinda Mills
Professor Mills directs the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, combining social science and genetic approaches to population research. She co-authored a population level International Journal of Epidemiology study quantifying life expectancy losses from the COVID-19 pandemic across 29 countries, work conducted with demographers at institutions in Denmark and Germany.
Veronique Gouverneur
Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at Oxford, Veronique Gouverneur pioneers sustainable fluorine chemistry. Working with collaborators at UCL and Colorado State University, her team converted fluorspar directly into a solid fluorinating reagent through a phosphate enabled mechanochemical process, bypassing hazardous hydrogen fluoride and opening safer routes to pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and battery fluorochemicals.