Masakatsu SHIBASAKIAbout MCRF

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)