Palladium Global Science Award 2025 prize giving ceremony to be held in Hong Kong

The inaugural Palladium Global Science Award will host its prize giving ceremony in Hong Kong on Wednesday, September 24, following the recent announcement of the winners. At the event, the awards will be formally presented, along with special PGSA statuettes. The International Expert Council, which met in Shanghai, China at the beginning of September to evaluate the shortlisted nominees, noted the high standard of submissions in the competition’s first year.

The $350,000 prize fund will be shared among the five winners of the three nominations: $120,000 and $60,000 respectively for the first and second-placed entrants in the Best Scientific Development nomination, prizes of $80,000 and $40,000 for Best Scientific Article, and $50,000 for the winner of the Best Applied Concept nomination.

The winning projects cover a wide range of palladium applications, from polymerization and coordination chemistry to wastewater treatment and drug discovery. The winning submission for Best Scientific Development proposes a potentially revolutionary pathway for methanol production, and was singled out for its method of converting greenhouse gases into valuable chemical products. The entrants are based at research institutions in Canada, India, Japan, the USA and Saudi Arabia.

Scientists and academics working at universities, research institutes and commercial R&D departments will be in attendance at the ceremony, along with members of the international business community, market analysts, financiers and civil servants.

The Palladium Global Science Award returns in 2026, and will once again welcome submissions outlining novel palladium applications in chemistry, materials science, energy, metallurgy and related fields of research.