Winners of the 2021 JA Ōmura Awards for excellence

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ABOUT THE WINNERS

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

Original article Division: awardee Shun Saito

Dr. Shun Saito is a chemical biologist specializing in the field of natural products chemistry. He received his BS (2012) in Sciences at Keio University and his PhD (2017) from Keio University under the supervision of Prof. Masaya Imoto. After postdoctoral research experiences with Prof. Yasuo Ohnishi at the University of Tokyo and with Prof. Yasuhiro Igarashi at Toyama Prefectural University, he joined the faculty of Science and Technology at Keio University in 2020 as an Assistant Professor. His present research focuses on drug discovery from natural product resources and development of activation methods of silent secondary metabolite biosynthetic genes in microbial strains. He is also interested in understanding the regulatory mechanism and the physiological function of secondary metabolites in microorganism.

Review article Division: awardee Vedanjali Gogineni

Dr Vedanjali Gogineni is a Scientist leading method development/method validation projects at Alcami Corporation, a US-based pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO). She also holds Affiliate Faculty (Affiliate Instructor) appointment with The Medical University of South Carolina. Dr Gogineni holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences with an emphasis in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Mississippi. During her graduate studies, she was actively involved in the isolation, structural determination, and optimization of natural products with a focus on plants and marine sources. She worked on psychoactive medicinal plants for the treatment of neurological disorders. Prior to her admission into the doctoral program, she worked as a Research Scholar under the guidance of Dr. Mark T. Hamann and currently collaborates with him. Dr Gogineni has published about nine scientific papers/reviews, and a book chapter so far. Dr Gogineni has received several awards during her PhD including the 2016 American Chemical Society (ACS) Women Chemists Committee Travel Award sponsored by Eli Lilly & Company, the 2016 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Graduate Student Research Award in Drug Discovery and Development Interface, and was a winner of Graduate Student Award in the Chemistry Research Category at the 2016 Sigma Xi Student Research Conference along with Nobles-Sam Award in Medicinal Chemistry which is considered as the highest award in the Department of BioMolecular Sciences, Division of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Mississippi. Dr Gogineni began her career in cGMP analytical department at Cambrex Pharmaceuticals in Charles City, Iowa.

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