Tamio Yamakawa Award, to honor the distinguished career of Prof. Tamio Yamakawa and his outstanding contributions to the field of Glycoscience, 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.　JCGG has decided to award Tamio Yamakawa Award 2016 to Dr. Markus Aebi, Professor of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), who has made an outstanding contribution to the field by elucidating glycoprotein glycan synthesis. The awardee will deliver the Tamio Yamakawa Award Lecture at the 14th JCGG symposium planned on Nov. 1- 2, 2016 in Tokyo.

The selection committee of Tamio Yamakawa Award 2016 was composed of Drs. Harry Schachter, Hans Kamerling, Mark von Itzstein, Sandro Sonnino, Naoyuki Taniguchi, Tamao Endo, and Akemi Suzuki (chair), and the selection has been approved by the executive board members of the JCGG.

Feb. 10, 2016

Profs. Markus Aebi and Tamio Yamakawa at 2016 Tamio Yamakawa Award Ceremony in the 15th ACGG Symposium on Nov.1, 2016.

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