 He has received awards in medicinal chemistry from many organisations, such as the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Chemical Society, the Society of Chemical Industry, the Society for Drug Research, the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry, the Société Chimie Thérapeutique of France, and the Medicinal Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society.He was also inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990 for his work on cimetidine.Ganellin currently serves as the Emeritus Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, although he is now partially retired.