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2024/12/06

SAITO, Tsuyoshi Fellow has been awarded the BMC/BMCL Prize at the 41st Medicinal Chemistry Symposium.

A TRiSTAR phase 3 fellow, Associate Professor SAITO, Tsuyoshi, has been awarded the BMC/BMCL Prize at the 41st Medicinal Chemistry Symposium. The award was given in recognition of his achievement in developing a drug capable of spatially and temporally controlling the activation of the adenosine A2A receptor using light, successfully inducing sleep remotely in mice equipped with fiber optics.

For more information, visit the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Division of Medicinal Chemistry website (in Japanese).