2025 IUPAC International Award for Advances in Harmonized Approaches to Crop Protection Chemistry – Call for Nominations

This award recognizes individuals in government, intergovernmental organizations, academia, and industry who have exercised personal leadership for outstanding regulatory, public policy, and/or educational contributions supporting international harmonization of crop protection chemistry. The award is administered by the IUPAC Advisory Committee on Crop Protection Chemistry, a body of the IUPAC Division of Chemistry and the Environment, and is presented on a roughly biennial basis.

The next award will be presented as part of the Agrochemicals Division program for the Fall 2025 American Chemical Society meeting in Washington DC, USA, during August 17-21, 2025. Awardees receive an honorarium of $3000 plus travel and registration reimbursement of up to $2500 to provide an in-person presentation and attend the award presentation ceremony. The awardee is expected to publish a review article on the topic of their lecture in  the IUPAC journal Pure and Applied Chemistry (example: https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2024-0215).

Nominations for the 2025 award are due by February 1, 2025 and must be submitted via on-line nomination form and will consist of:

• A nomination letter including a description (200-1000 words) of the reasons why the nominee should receive this award, stressing the individual’s major accomplishments toward international harmonization of crop protection chemistry.
• A maximum 4-page curriculum vitae of the candidate that includes places and names of employment, professional affiliations, committee and working group assignments, and listing of relevant regulatory guidance documents, reports, and/or publications.
• A minimum of one and a maximum of three letters of support.

A BIG Thank you to Corteva Agrisciences for their continuing support of this award.