Dong Pyo Kim

Yonsan Chaired Professor, Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)

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Professor Dong-Pyo Kim has extensive general experience and more than 25 year track record in synthetic and physical organic chemistry, process intensification using microreactors and flow chemistry/microreaction technology, communicated in ~300 scientific publications (h-index 52, citation 8,133). For the past decade the focus of his research has been directed towards flow chemistry using microreactor, encompassing a wide variety of synthetic transformations and experimental techniques. His research group is actively involved in projects dealing with API synthesis and sustainable manufacturing, employing a number of different enabling and process intensification technology.

 

Shu Kobayashi

Professor, The University of Tokyo

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Shu Kobayashi studied at The University of Tokyo, receiving his Ph.D. in 1988 working under the direction of Professor T. Mukaiyama. Following an initial period as assistant professor, he was promoted to lecturer then associate professor at Science University of Tokyo (SUT). In 1998, he moved to the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, as full professor. In 2007, he was appointed to his current position as professor of organic chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo. Professor Kobayashi held various visiting professorships, including the Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg (1993), Kyoto University (1995), Nijmegen University (1996), Philipps-University of Marburg (1997), Paris Sud (2010), and ESPCI (2016). Professor Kobayashi has wide-ranging research interests that include the development of new synthetic methods and novel catalysts, organic reactions in water, solid-phase and flow synthesis, total synthesis of biologically interesting compounds, and organometallic chemistry. He has held numerous named lectureships and is a recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists (1991), Springer Award in Organometallic Chemistry (1997), IBM Science Award (2001), Organic Reactions Lecturer (2002), Nagoya Silver Medal (2002), Mitsui Chemical Catalysis Science Award (2005), JSPS Prize (2005), the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society (2006), Howard Memorial Lecturer (2006), C.S. Hamilton Award (2006), Merck-Cambridge Lecturer (2007), Boehringer Ingelheim Lecturer (2009), Humboldt Research Award (2013), Green Chemistry Minister of Education Award (2013), Green Chemistry Minister of Education Award (2013), Honorary Professor, Wuhan Institute of Technology (2013), TUM-IAS Honorary Hans Fischer Senior Fellow (2013), Honorary Professor, Wuhan University of Technology (2014), Association for the Advancement of Science(AAAS) Fellow (2015), Toray Science and Technology Prize (2016), Honorary Professor, Hebei Engineering University (2016), Negishi Award (2018), Chemical Society of Japan Award (2019), The T.-Y. Luh Lectureship Award (2019).

 

John Naber

Director, Flow Chemistry and Lab Automation, Process Research & Development, Merck & Co

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John leads the Flow Chemistry and Lab Automation teams within Enabling Technologies as part of Process Research & Development at MSD. The New Jersey based flow team works closely with the larger process organization to implement flow chemistry processes during late stage and commercial route development.

John began his industrial career at i2Chem a Cambridge (MA) based CRO that specialized in flow chemistry process development before moving to MSD in 2012. John received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010 where he completed his research under the direction of Stephen L. Buchwald. During his time at MIT he was introduced to flow chemistry through the MIT-Novartis Center for Continuous Manufacturing. He holds a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Victoria in Canada.