Kazunobu Toshima received Ph.D. degree in 1988 from Keio University under the direction of Professors Mitsuhiro Kinoshita and Kuniaki Tatsuta. He spent one year in Professor K. C. Nicolaou’s group at the University of Pennsylvania as a postdoctoral fellow. He was appointed as Lecturer of the Department of Applied Chemistry at Keio University in 1989. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1994, Associate Professor in 1996, and Full Professor in 2003 at Keio University. He was awarded The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Young Chemists in 1995, Taro Yamashita Academic Award in 1996, The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work in 2014, and SSOCJ Daiichi-Sankyo Award for Medicinal Organic Chemistry in 2015.
Yukari Fujimoto is Professor in Department of Chemistry, Keio University. She received her B.S. from Osaka University in 1989. After gaining industrial experience at Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. and post-graduate studies at Columbia University, USA (Prof. Koji Nakanishi), she received her Ph.D. from Osaka University in 2002. After postdoctoral studies at Nagoya University, she joined the faculty of Osaka University as Assistant Professor in 2003 (Profs. Shoichi Kusumoto, and Koichi Fukase), where she promoted to Lecturer (2006) and to Associate Professor (2008). In 2014, she moved to Keio University as a Full Professor. She received several awards, including the Shionogi Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry in 2021, the Alois Nowotny Award from International Endotoxin Society in 2012 and SSOCJ Incentive Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry in 2007.