UNC Chemist Frank Leibfarth Wins $250,000 Blavatnik Award for Pioneering PFAS Solutions

Frank Leibfarth first Tar Heel to win Blavatnik award | UNC-Chapel Hill

Carolina chemistry professor Frank Leibfarth is the 2025 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists laureate in the chemical sciences, announced Oct. 7 in New York. Inspired by the Nobel Prizes, the Blavatnik National Awards are the largest unrestricted prizes for early-career researchers in the United States. Leibfarth’s award is $250,000. This year’s other two laureates are Philip J. Kranzusch from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, who won the…

UNC Chemist Frank Leibfarth Wins $250,000 Blavatnik Award for Pioneering PFAS Solutions

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Oct. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Frank Leibfarth, a chemist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named a 2025 Laureate of the Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists, one of the nation's most…