Nomination for the 2020
Tamio Yamakawa Award

Background

The Japan Consortium for Glycobiology and Glycotechnology (JCGG) established the Tamio Yamakawa Award, to honor the distinguished career of Professor Tamio Yamakawa and his outstanding contributions to the field of Glycoscience. The award was funded by a donation to the JCGG from the Sialic Acid Society. This international award is presented every two years to a glycoscientist who has made widely recognized and major contributions to the field of Glycoscience and is, in principle, a currently active researcher. The 2016 Tamio Yamakawa Award, the first award, was presented to Prof. Markus Aebi of ETH Zurich on November 1, 2016, and the 2018 Award to Prof. Gerald W. Hart of Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC), University of Georgia in Athens on November 26, 2018.

■Call for Nominations
JCGG wishes to receive nominations for the 2020 Tamio Yamakawa Award from glycoscientists. Any active glycoscientist as an individual may nominate any other glycoscientist who meets the criteria for the Award, except the members of the Selection Committee. The primary nominator shall contact the candidate nominee to obtain permission to nominate him/her and to make the nominee aware that he/she will be nominated, before submitting the nomination to JCGG.
The nomination should include:

The nominee’s curriculum vitae which should include
1) a brief bibliography,
2) a list of original peer-reviewed articles, and
3) other publications. (Abstracts are not to be included in the above items)

A letter of nomination that contains 1,000 words or less that contains the following:
1) a brief description of the scientific achievements of the nominee that merit the award,
2) other aspects of the nominee’s professional record that might be taken into consideration (e.g. mentorship of trainees, general impact of his/her research on the field, interactions with other scientists, service to Glycoscience-related societies, etc.), and
3) a list of the five most important original papers published by the nominee.

Letters that exceed this limit will not be considered to be valid.
All documents mentioned above should be submitted in the form of a single PDF file to the JCGG office (tya_office@jcgg.jp).

The submission deadline is 24:00 on October 31, 2019 (Japan time).
The selection results will be announced at the end of February, 2020.

■Selection Committee

The chair of the Selection Committee is selected by the executive board members of the JCGG. The Selection Committee members may not be nominated nor are they eligible to submit nominations or contribute letters of support.

■The Award

The award consists of a certificate and a cash award of 300,000 yen and will be presented at a JCGG symposium. The awardee will be expected to deliver the Tamio Yamakawa Award Lecture at the 18th JCGG symposium scheduled on October 6, 2020 in Tokyo.

Professor Tamio Yamakawa：
Please see a report on his academic accomplishments:
Akemi Suzuki: Tamio Yamakawa: Dawn of Glycobiology. J. Biochem. 146, 149-156, 2009
(PDF)
http://jb.oxfordjournals.org/content/146/2/149.abstract

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