We are holding a symposium to mark and highlight the 130th anniversary since Professor Takamine’s research visit to Glasgow. The symposium will be a celebration of organic, biological and medicinal chemistry involving world class researchers both from across the city of Glasgow and Japan.
The interdisciplinary nature of the programme we believe, will translate into attendance by researchers from disciplines outside chemistry (i.e. biology, proteomics, etc) and as such, it will be a key opportunity for the development of cross-disciplinary research programmes.
The main aim of the symposium will be to excite and motivate the next generation of scientists by world class science while at the same time encouraging them to build research links with Japanese groups and institutions. Thus, looking forward into the future of Scottish-Japanese collaborations, we purposely invited a mixture of established researchers and together with some rising stars of Japanese and Scottish Chemistry.
In 1883, a young Japanese scientist, Jokichii Takamine was completing a research stay in the city of Glasgow. A few years later, back in his native Japan, Jokichi Takamine went to develop takaminase, a highly successful enzymatic process which became one of the cornerstones upon which Sankyo (now Daiichi-Sankyo) grew into a world leading pharmaceutical company.
The symposium will mark and highlight the 130th anniversary since Professor Takamine’s research visit to Glasgow. The symposium will be a celebration of organic, biological and medicinal chemistry involving world class researchers both from across the city of Glasgow and Japan.
Booking: Please contact Dr. Rudi Marquez (rudi.marquez@glasgow.ac.uk)
For more information, please see the website here
This symposium is held in association with:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
TCI
University of Glasgow