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 on November 1, 2016 to Prof. Markus Aebi, of ETH Zurich, the 2018 Award on November 26, 2018 to Prof. Gerald W. Hart of CCRC, and the 2020 Award on December 7, 2021 to Prof. Kevin P. Campbell of University of Iowa.
JCGG wishes to receive nominations for the 2022 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 be less than 5 letter- or A4-sized pages and should include A letter of nomination that should be within 1,000 words or less and contains the following: Letters that exceed this limit will not be considered to be valid. |
The submission deadline was October 31, 2022.
The selection results will be announced at the end of February, 2023.
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 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 JCGG symposium scheduled for 2023 in Tokyo.
Professor Tamio YamakawaF
Please see a report on his academic accomplishments:
Akemi Suzuki: Tamio Yamakawa: Dawn of Glycobiology. J. Biochem. 146, 149-156, 2009
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http://jb.oxfordjournals.org/content/146/2/149.abstract