2018 T. Ogawa Young Investigator Award

I am delighted to announce that the winner of the 2018 T. Ogawa Young Investigator Award is Professor Qian Wan at Tongji School of Pharmacy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China. T. Ogawa Young Investigator Award is established by the Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry and is given annually to recognize a young principal investigator for his or her excellent contributions to carbohydrate chemistry. Prof. Wan received his B.S. degree in chemistry from Central China Normal University in 1997. In 2000, he completed his M.S. studies at the Paris-Sud University, supervised by Prof. Claudine Aug e. After receiving his PhD degree in 2004 from the Paris-Sud University under the supervision of Prof. Andr e Lubineau and Prof. Marie-Christine Scherrmann, he joined the group of Prof. Samuel J. Danishefsky at the Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center as a postdoctoral fellow. From 2007 to 2011, Dr. Wan was a scientist at Amgen Inc. In 2012, he started his independent career as a Full Professor in Tongji School of Pharmacy at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Wan’s major research interest has been focused on the development of novel and efficient strategies for the synthesis of biologically important oligosaccharides and the discovery of new free radical chemistry.