Guidance

Global Talent: science, engineering, humanities, social science and medicine prizes

Updated 11 November 2025

Applying as the winner of an eligible prestigious prize for science, engineering, humanities, social science and medicine

If you hold a prize from the list below, you can bypass the endorsement stage of the Global Talent visa route and go directly to the visa stage.

These prizes have been recommended by and agreed with the Global Talent endorsing body. Prizes included must be open to all nationalities and winners must be determined by experts or peers, rather than a public vote.

To be eligible for this route:

• the prize must be named on the list below; other prizes awarded by the same institutions are not eligible - for example, if you hold a Georg Forster Research award given by the Humboldt Foundation this is not accepted, only the Humboldt Research Award is
• you must be the named winner of the prize - prestigious awards for specific works, such as an award-winning film, or prizes which recognise a whole organisation rather than individuals are not included on the list
• if you won as part of a group, the prize must specifically name you as a member of that group - for example, prizes awarded to joint researchers recognised for the same work are acceptable if each researcher is named by the institution awarding the prize
• the prize must not have been withdrawn or suspended

You can have held the prize for a number of years - there is no time limit, as long as the prize has not been withdrawn or suspended you are eligible to apply.

If you’ve won an eligible prestigious prize from the list below, the Home Office will look at publicly available information (such as the prize organisation’s website) to confirm that you’ve won. You’ll only be asked for evidence of your win if they cannot find this from trusted publicly available information.

If you hold a prize or research award which is not named on the list, or you have contributed to a prize winning piece of work but are not specifically named on the prize, you may still qualify for an endorsement from one of the Global Talent endorsing bodies.

Qualifying Prize	Name of Awarding Body
Abel Prize	Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
AF Harvey Engineering Research Prize	Institution of Engineering and Technology
Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award	Lasker Foundation
Annual Review Prize Lecture	Physiology Society
Bakerian Medal and Lecture	Royal Society
Balzan Prize	International Balzan Prize Foundation
Benjamin Franklin Medal	Franklin Institute
Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture	Berggruen Institute
Blue Planet Prize	Asahi Glass Foundation
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics	Breakthrough Prize Board
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences	Breakthrough Prize Board
Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics	Breakthrough Prize Board
Cadman Award	Energy Institute
Canada Gairdner International Award	Gairdner Foundation
Centenary Prize	Royal Society of Chemistry
Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering	US National Academy of Engineering
Copley Medal	Royal Society
Crafoord Prize	Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Crafoord
Croonian Medal and Lecture	Royal Society
Davis Medal	IChemE
Distinguished Fellowship	British Computing Society
Ewald Prize	International Union of Crystallography
Faraday Medal	Institution of Engineering and Technology
Fields Medal	International Mathematical Union
Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize	National Academy of Engineering
Fyssen International Prize	Fondation Fyssen
Gold Medal	Institution of Civil Engineers
Gruber Cosmology Prize	Gruber Foundation
Gruber Genetics Prize	Gruber Foundation
Gruber Neuroscience Prize	Gruber Foundation
Holberg Prize	Holberg Committee
Honorary Membership	British Ecological Society
Humboldt Research Award	Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
IEEE Medal of Honor	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IJCAI Award for Research Excellence	International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organisation (IJCAI)
INCOSE Pioneer Award	International Council on Systems Engineering
IMU Abacus Medal	International Mathematical Union
Individual Gold Medal	Royal Aeronautical Society
International Award	Biochemical Society
International Medal	Institution of Civil Engineers
Isaac Newton Medal and Award	Institute of Physics
IStructE Gold Medal	Institution of Structural Engineers
J J Thompson Medal for Electronics	Institution of Engineering and Technology
James Clayton Prize	Institution of Mechanical Engineers
James Watt International Gold Medal	Institution of Mechanical Engineering
Japan Prize	The Japan Prize Foundation
John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity	John W. Kluge Centre
Kavli Prize in Astrophysics	The Kavli Foundation
Kavli Prize in Nanoscience	The Kavli Foundation
Kavli Prize in Neuroscience	The Kavli Foundation
King Faisal Prize – Medicine	King Faisal International Fund
King Faisal Prize - Science	King Faisal International Fund
Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize	Jacobs Foundation
Kyoto Prize – Advanced Technology	Inamori Foundation
Kyoto Prize – Basic Science	Inamori Foundation
Kyoto Prize – Arts and Philosophy	Inamori Foundation
Lagrange-CRT Foundation Prize	CRT Foundation and ISI Foundation
Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award	Lasker Foundation
Lasker-Debakey Clinical Medical Research Award	Lasker Foundation
Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science	Lasker Foundation
L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science	L’Oréal-UNESCO
Louis-Jeantet Prize	The Louis-Jeantet Foundation
Marconi Prize	Marconi Society
Melchett Award	Energy Institute
Mensforth Manufacturing Gold Medal	Institution of Engineering and Technology
Millennium Technology Prize	Technology Academy Finland
Mountbatten Medal	Institution of Engineering and Technology
Nine Dots Prize	Kadas Prize Foundation
Nobel Prize - Chemistry	The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Nobel Prize - Economic Science	The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Nobel Prize - Literature	The Swedish Academy
Nobel Prize - Medicine	Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet
Nobel Prize - Physics	The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
President’s Award	Energy Institute
Prince Philip Medal	Royal Academy of Engineering
Princess Royal Silver Medal	Royal Academy of Engineering
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering	The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation
Rayleigh Medal	Institute of Acoustics
Robert Koch Award	Robert Koch Foundation
Robert Koch Gold Medal	Robert Koch Foundation
Royal Medals (the King’s Medals)	Royal Society
Shaw Prize in Astronomy	Shaw Prize Foundation
Shaw Prize in Life Science & Medicine	Shaw Prize Foundation
Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences	Shaw Prize Foundation
Vane Medal	British Pharmacological Society
W H Pierce Prize	Society for Applied Microbiology
Wolf Prize - Agriculture	Wolf Foundation
Wolf Prize - Arts	Wolf Foundation
Wolf Prize – Chemistry	Wolf Foundation
Wolf Prize – Mathematics	Wolf Foundation
Wolf Prize - Medicine	Wolf Foundation
Wolf Prize - Physics	Wolf Foundation