Autor: Takahiko Akiyama

Takahiko Akiyama, Ph D, is Professor of Chemistry at Gakushuin University. Among his honors are the Nagoya Silver Medal (2012), the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (ACS) (2016), the Humboldt Research Award (2016), and the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (2009). Iwao Ojima, Ph D, is University Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (1994), E. B. Hershberg Award (2001), ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry (2013), Ernest Guenther Award (2019) (all from ACS), and the Chemical Society of Japan Award (1999).