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Masakatsu SHIBASAKI
Representative Director, Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation
Biography
| 1974 | Ph. D., The University of Tokyo |
| 1974-1977 | Post-doctoral fellow, Harvard University |
| 1977-1983 | Associate Professor, Teikyo University |
| 1983-1986 | Research Group Leader, Sagami Chemical Research Center |
| 1986-1991 | Professor, Hokkaido University |
| 1991-2010 | Professor, The University of Tokyo |
| 2005-2006 | Vice-president, The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan |
| 2005- | Member, Science Council of Japan |
| 2006-2007 | President, The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan |
| 2006-2008 | Dean, the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
| 2009 | The President Elect, The Asian Federation of Medicinal Chemistry (AFMS) |
| 2010 | The President, AFMS |
| 2010- | Representative Director, Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation (MCRF) and Director, Institute of Microbial Chemistry |
| 2010- | Professor Emeritus, Hokkaido University |
| 2010- | Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo |
| 2013-2015 | President, The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan |
| 2014- | Chairman, MCRF |
Awards
| 1981 | The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Young Scientists (Japan) |
| 1994 | Inoue Prize for Science (Japan) |
| 1996 | Fluka Prize (Reagent of the Year 1996, Switzerland) |
| 1998 | Tetrahedron Chair (Belgium) |
| 1998 | The Elsevier Award for Inventiveness in Organic Chemistry (Belgium) |
| 1999 | The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award (Japan) |
| 1999 | Molecular Chirality Award (Japan) |
| 2001 | The Naito Memorial Award for the advancement of science (Japan) |
| 2002 | Arthur C. Cope Senior Scholar Awards (American Chemical Society) (USA) |
| 2003 | Medal with Purple Ribbon (Japan) |
| 2004 | Toray Science and Technology Prize (Japan) |
| 2005 | Japan Academy Prize (Japan) |
| 2006 | Sankyo Takamine Memorial Award (Japan) |
| 2007 | The Rare Earth Society of Japan Award (Shiokawa Prize) (Japan) |
| 2008 | ACS Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (USA) |
| 2008 | Centenary Prize (Royal Society of Chemistry) (UK) |
| 2008 | Prelog Award Medal (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland) |
| 2010 | Special Award of Synthetic Organic Chemistry of Japan (Japan) |
| 2012 | Ryoji Noyori Prize (Japan) |