Lush Announces Winners of the '2020 Lush Prize'... 11 Teams from 8 Countries Awarded

Lush Prize Award Trophy / Photo by Lush

[Culture & Life Reporter Kim Hee-young] The UK fresh handmade cosmetic brand Lush announced the winners of the world’s largest award ceremony in the field of animal alternative testing, ‘The Lush Prize 2020,’ held online at 1 a.m. Korean time on the 12th.

This year’s ceremony was broadcast live online due to COVID-19. Notably, the ‘Medical Device In Vitro Irritation Team (MD-IV-IT),’ an international joint research team in the field of medical devices including Professor Kim Kwang-man and Assistant Professor Kwon Jae-sung from Yonsei University College of Dentistry, received the Lush Prize Lobby Special Award for their irritation testing project using in vitro methods in the medical device field.

In addition to the international joint research team including Korean researchers, 11 teams from 8 countries worldwide, who have worked hard to promote cutting-edge animal alternative testing technologies such as big data-based toxicity prediction and to end animal testing, were honored with awards.

Now in its 8th year, the ‘Lush Prize’ is a global award ceremony established by Lush and the UK non-profit organization Ethical Consumer Research Association. Since its inception in 2012, the ceremony has been held biennially from this year onward, selecting individuals or organizations that have contributed to ending animal testing and promoting animal alternative testing.

Every year, a panel of 10 judges composed of environmental activists, scientists, and Lush customers from various fields selects the winners. The total prize money is ?250,000 (approximately 400 million KRW), awarded across five categories: Science, Education, Publicity, Lobbying, and New Researchers.

Lush has supported science and animal welfare fields to replace safety testing in all areas with ethical methods instead of animal testing and plans to continue doing so in the future.

The video of the online ‘2020 Lush Prize’ award ceremony and the conference where experts shared information and new technologies under the theme ‘Can Big Data Replace Animal Testing?’ can be viewed on the Lush Prize website.

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