Outstanding paper prize

Each year, Development awards a prize (£1000) to the first author (or authors, where there is joint first authorship) of the research paper that is judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to the journal that year.

All Research Articles and Techniques and Resources papers are eligible for consideration. Papers are shortlisted, and a winner chosen, by the journal's Editors. The shortlist and winning papers are announced in an editorial, alongside a short profile of the winning authors, who are also invited to present their work in a special edition of our 'Development presents...' webinar series.

Previous winners

2023

Ryan Liegel, Megan Michalski and Sanika Vaidya: Successful therapeutic intervention in new mouse models of frizzled 2-associated congenital malformations

Joe Hanly and Ling Lo: Frizzled2 receives WntA signaling during butterfly wing pattern formation

Read the editorial announcing the shortlist and winners, or watch the webinar presentations.

2022

Natalia López-Anguita: Hypoxia induces an early primitive streak signature, enhancing spontaneous elongation and lineage representation in gastruloids

Read the editorial announcing the shortlist and winners, or watch the webinar presentations.