Mr. Tomoya Kanda (D1) and Dr. Hiroki Takezawa were awarded the outstanding poster presentation award (Prof Lars Book Prize) and the Early Career Researcher Presentation Award at ACCC7, respectively. (Malaysia, October 15-18, 2019)

Dr. Takaaki Mitsuhashi has joined as a research assistant professor.

Prof. M. Fujita received the Imperial Prize and Japan Academy Prize at the 108th ceremony held at Ueno Park, Tokyo [Link].

Annual group retreat of the Fujita Lab was held at Chiba for research discussion and recreation.

A paper by M. Abe and Dr. Y. Domoto et al. on the coordination polyhedra with highly entangled faces was selected as a Hot Paper in Angew Chem. Int. Ed. [Link]

Y. Inomata, T. Sawada, M. Fujita, Metal–Peptide Torus Knots from Flexible Short Peptides, Chem 2020, 6, 294-303. [Link]

 A paper by Mr. Inomata (D1) and Dr. Sawada on the 24-crossing peptide [6]catenane appeared in Nat. Commun. [Faculty press]