Biography

Professor Brimble was born and educated in New Zealand and received her PhD in the UK funded by a Commonwealth Scholarship. Her list of achievements follows:

• Inducted into American Chemical Society Medicinal Chemistry Division Hall of Fame in 2019
• KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards BNZ Supreme Award 2018
• Baldwins Researcher Entrepreneur Award 2018
• Zonta NZ Woman of Achievement Award 2018
• Fellow of the Royal Society London, 2018
• Royal Society Chemistry Sosnovsky Award in Cancer Therapy, 2018
• Marsden Medal (New Zealand Association of Scientists) for Lifetime of Achievement in Science, 2016
• International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry Distinguished Women in Chemistry Award, 2015
• Appointed by Her Majesty the Queen as Companion of New Zealand Order of Merit for Service to Science, 2012
• Royal Society Te Apārangi Rutherford Medal (New Zealand’s top science prize), 2012
• Royal Society Te Apārangi MacDiarmid Medal, 2012
• Royal Society Te Apārangi Hector Medal, 2012
• Royal Australian Chemical Institute Adrien Albert Award in medicinal chemistry, 2011
• Royal Society of Chemistry Natural Products Chemistry Award, 2010
• L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Asia-Pacific Laureate in Materials Science, 2007
• President of the International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry’s Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry Division III, 2016–17
• Past President of the International Society Heterocyclic Chemistry