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ABOUT THE WINNERS

The medal will be awarded to the first author of Article and Review article, and all of the authors will receive the certificates. Each first author’s short biography is as follows.

Article Division: awardee Dat Huu Tran

Dr Dat Tran is a Neonatal intensivist at the Neonatal Center at Vietnam National Children’s Hospital (VNCH). He received his bachelor’s degree (2011) at The Military Medical University in Hanoi and has been working at the Intensive Care Unit in VNCH for over 13 years. He completed a Ph.D course in the Asia International Institute of Infectious Disease Control (ADC), Teikyo Medical University (2015–2019). His group discovered a part of the Azithromycin antibiotic’s mechanisms on anti-influenza A (2009pdm) inhibition. His present research continues developing new anti-influenza virus agents focusing on Azithromycin derivatives. His current position is vice-head of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in VNCH, and he is also interested in doing clinical trial research on the neonatal population.

Review article Division: awardee Tilman Schneider-Poetsch

Dr Tilman Schneider-Poetsch received his bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of California at Berkeley. He then continued his studies in the biochemistry, cell and molecular biology (BCMB) graduate program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. There he worked on small molecule inhibitors of protein biosynthesis under the supervision of Jun O. Liu in the department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences. Upon receiving his PhD, he embarked on a postdoctoral fellowship to Japan, working in the Chemical Genetics Laboratory at RIKEN under Minoru Yoshida and then continuing as a tenured staff scientist in the Chemical Genomics Research group at RIKEN’s Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS). His research interests include small molecule modulators of gene expression, especially mRNA splicing, protein synthesis and protein homeostasis. Furthermore, he works as a part-time lecturer at Waseda University, teaching a semester-long undergraduate course on chemical biology.