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May 16, 2024 Kazuho Ban (D3) was selected as a student of the 10th Noyori Forum Young Scientists Training School.
May 3, 2024 “Let’s experience chemical reactions”, an experiment and hands-on event, was held at Osaka University’s Icho Festival. Many visitors came to experience the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. Everyone was surprised at the color change.
April 23, 2024 Syuki Koyama (B5) and Hyoga Shimizu (B5) received the Best Student Presentation Award at the 144th Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan.
April 18, 2024 Miyu Mae D1) received Osaka University Female Graduate Student Outstanding Research Award.
April 4, 2024 Assistant Prof. Kanomata’s research proposal has been accepted for a research grant from Amano Institute of Industrial Research for the first semester of FY2024.
April 3, 2024 Assistant Professor Kanomata’s research proposal has been accepted for a FY2024 Enzyme Research Grant from the Japanese Association for Applied Enzymology.
April 2, 2024 New members joined our group and started their research activities for the new fiscal year.
March 25, 2024 Jihoon Moon (M2) and Miyu Mae (M2) received the Yakuyu-kai Award for Young Scientists and Associate Prof. Sawama received the Yakuyu-kai Research Division Award.
March 7, 2024 Farewell party for the laboratory was held.
February 21, 2024 Rei Ikeda (M2) and Assistant Prof. Kanomata’s paper “Nucleophilic Deprotection of p-Methoxybenzyl Ethers Using Heterogeneous Oxovanadium Catalyst” was published in Chem. Bull.
Dec. 20, 2023 Assistant Prof. Kanamata’s research proposal was accepted for the Tokuyama Science and Technology Foundation’s 2024 Start-up Grant.
Dec. 12, 2023 Assistant Prof. Kanomata received the Nissan Chemical Research Planning Award from the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan.
December 5, 2023 Mr. Kazuho Saka (D2) received the Best Poster Presentation Award at the 13th CSJ Chemistry Festa 2023.
November 27, 2023 Prof. Norbert Krause (Technical University of Dortmund, Germany) gave a special lecture.
November 12, 2023 Nine high school students conducted experiments in our laboratory as part of the “SEEDS2023 Program: Experiential Science Research”, a high school-university connection program conducted by Osaka University.
October 23, 2023 Rei Ikeda (M2) received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, Kansai Branch.
September 29, 2023 Assistant Prof. Kanomata received the “Corporate Spotlight Award” for his presentation at the 23rd Symposium on Biocatalysis.
Sep. 14, 2023 Associate Prof. Stephan Hammer (Univ. Bielefeld, Germany) gave a special lecture.
August 26, 2023 Alumni reunion was held to bring together all generations of graduates, current students, and faculty members of the “Manufacturing” laboratory.
August 22, 2023 Jihoon Moon (M2), Assistant Prof. Kanomata, and colleagues presented their paper “Lipase/H2SO4-Cocatalyzed Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Alcohols in Pickering Emulsion ” has been accepted and published in ChemCatChem.
August 10, 2023 We all cleaned up the lab and had a BBQ to end the summer semester.
August 1, 2023 Assistant Professor Kanomata’s research project was accepted by the “Osaka University Datability Frontier Organization (IDS) Interdisciplinary Co-Creation Project.
July 21, 2023 The results of the joint research project “Complete Hydroponic Cultivation of Hirohasenega” between Prof. Akai, Sanshin Metal Industry, М-type Hydroponic Laboratory, and Kinki University were introduced in the Pharmaceutical Daily.
July 20, 2023 An interview with Professor Akai was published in HandaiWalker, the official newspaper of the Co-op.
June 2, 2023 A round-table meeting was held with members of the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences on the second floor of Building 4, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
May 13, 2023 A celebration party was held to honor Professor Akai with the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award, attended by many alumni and current students.
May 2, 2023 Assistant Prof. Kanomata’s commentary article appeared in TOPICS of the May issue of Pharmacia. “Regioselectivity of C(sp3)-H Functionalization Reactions Predicted by Machine Learning.”
Apr. 24, 2023 Tomoya Nishio (oral), Riku Ogasahara (oral), and Miyu Mae (poster) received Student Presentation Award at the 143rd Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan.
April 12, 2023 Welcome party for new students was held.
April 10, 2023 President Gerhard Sagerer of Bielefeld University and others visited our laboratory.Prof. Akai attended a round-table discussion with Osaka University President Nishio and others. They discussed the expansion of joint research and faculty/student exchanges between the two universities.
April 3, 2023 New members joined and research activities started for the new academic year.
Mar. 29, 2023 Assistant Professor Kanomata was selected for the Sasakawa Science Research Grant 2023 to promote overseas presentations.
Mar. 25, 2023 Prof Shuji Akai received the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award.
Mar. 15, 2023 2nd Symposium onOrganic Chemistry was held.
Jan. 23, 2022 Mr Keisuke Imai (M1) and his colleagues’ paper ‘Homemade Solution of NaOD in D2O: Applications in the Field of Stilbene-d1 Synthesis’ has been accepted for publication in Asian J. Org.
Jan. 6, 2023 The latest edition of ‘2023 An Invitation to the Frontiers of Life Sciences’, which introduces our Graduate School, is now available. Click here for the information page about our laboratory.
Dec.5, 2022 The electronic version of the book Science of Synthesis: Dynamic Kinetic Resolution (DKR) and Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Transformations (DYKAT), co-authored by Assistant Professor Kanomata and Professor Akai, has been The electronic version of the book has been published.
Nov.13, 2022 The manufacturing team (Akazawa, Fumi, Ito, Koyama, Kim, Shimizu) won third place in the inter-lab volleyball tournament.
Nov, 3, 2022 A joint team including Tamaki Koyama (B3) and Noboru Kanazawa (B3) won third place in the inter-lab futsal tournament at the Faculty of Pharmacy.
Oct. 25, 2022 Associate Prof Sawama, Miyu Mae (M1) and colleagues’ paper ‘Oxidative Two-way Regiocontrolled Coupling of 3-Methoxycarbonylcatechol and Indoles to Arylindoles’ was published in Chemical Communication. Click here for details.
Oct. 20, 2022 Satoshi Horino (D1) and his colleagues’ paper “Enantiodivergent Chemoenzymatic Dynamic Kinetic Resolution: Conversion of Racemic Propargyl Alcohols into Both Enantiomers” has been published in Chemistry – A European Journal and was accepted as a cover picture. It was also introduced on the website of the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University.
Oct. 12, 2022 Special Lecture by Prof Kei Okubo (Osaka University, Faculty of Advanced Co-creative Studies). Photo
Sep. 20 – Oct. 11, 2022 Prof Harald Gröger (Bielefeld University, Germany) stayed at the University as a visiting professor by cross-appointment with support from the University’s International Collaborative Research Promotion Programme, where he held joint research meetings, gave lectures and provided research guidance to students. Photo
Oct. 6, 2022 A joint research paper by Assistant Professor Kanamata has been published in Cellulose Chemistry and Technology. Click here for details.
Oct. 3, 2022 Assistant Professor Kanomata’s joint research project has been selected for the Osaka University Datability Frontier Organisation (IDS) Interdisciplinary Co-Creation Project.
Sep. 26, 2022 Satoshi Horino (D1) received the Best Presentation Award at the Mini-Symposium on Organic Chemistry.
Sep. 21 and 26, 2022 Mini-Symposium on Organic Chemistry. Click here for details.
Aug.10, 2022 Nineteen high school students experienced experiments in our laboratory.
July. 7, 2022 Prof Dominique Cahard special lecture.
Jun. 30, 2022 Prof Sawama’s article appeared in Production and Technology vol. 74, No. 3 Summer issue.
May. 6, 2022: Naoki Oka (D3) and his colleagues’ paper has been published in Organic letters and accepted for cover art. Click here for details.
May. 1, 2022: Kengo Kasama et al.’s paper was published in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin and was also selected as Highlighted Paper selected by Editor-in-Chief.
Apr. 21, 2022: Shogo Moriyama (D2) and Keisuke Imai (M1) received the Best Student Presentation Award (Poster) at the 142nd Annual Meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan.
Apr. 1, 2022: Kazuho Ban (D1) has been selected to receive a scholarship grant from the Chugai Foundation for Drug Discovery and Science for the fiscal year 2022.
Apr. 1, 2022: With new members, our research activities for the new fiscal year have started.