Stony Brook University Professor, Dr. Iwao Ojima, Inducted into the Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame.

STONY BROOK, N.Y. – Dr. Iwao Ojima, a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Institute for Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery at Stony Brook University, has been elected to the Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame.

The Hall of Fame was established by executive committee of the American Chemical Society Division of Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame in 2006 to recognize scholars and researchers who have made outstanding contributions to medicinal chemistry through a combination of research, teaching and service. Inductees must be members of the Division whose efforts in any of these individual categories does not qualify them for one of the national Division awards.

Dr. Ojima has published more than 340 papers and reviews in leading journals and more than l40 patents and patent applications. He has edited 5 books and has given over 400 lectures since his move to Stony Brook in 1983. He is the founding Director of the Institute of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery (ICB&DD), whose primary objective is to establish a world-class Center of Excellence in chemical biology and drug discovery at Stony Brook. Under his directorship, ICB&DD has promoted highly productive interdisciplinary and collaborative research among chemists, biologists, medicinal chemists, pharmacologists, and physicians to combat major and significant biomedical problems, and obtain solutions including the discovery of novel therapeutic drugs.

He has received the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (1994) and Emanuel B. Hershberg Award for Important Discoveries of Medicinally Active Substances (2001) from the American Chemical Society, The Chemical Society of Japan Award (1999) for outstanding achievements from the Chemical Society of Japan, and Outstanding Inventor Award (2002) from the Research Foundation of SUNY. He has been named a Fellow of John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1995), American Association for Advancement of Science (1997), and New York Academy of Sciences (2000).