The 2020 edition of the Santorio Award for Excellence in Research has been awarded to

• Dr Sebastien Kroupa (University of Cambridge)  with the thesis: Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): A Jesuit Pharmacist at the Frontiers of Colonial Empires 

• Dr Matteo Pace (Columbia University) with the thesis: Of Poets and Physicians: Medical and Scientific Thought from the Sicilian School to Dante (1230-1300)

The winners will receive their medal and diploma on the last day of the VivaMente Conference 2020, in which occasion they will be holding a plenary lecture as Santorio Lecturers.