Molecular Chirality Award Background
 
   
 

The award is instituted by the Molecular Chirality Research Organization (MCRO)* in 1999, to honour those internationally recognized scientists who have made a distinguished contribution in the field of molecular chirality. The bronze statue (hand in art) is presented at the Symposium on Molecular Chirality.
 

* The Molecular Chirality Research Organization (MCRO) was founded by the organizing committee of the Symposium on Molecular Chirality. The Symposium was organized to integrate knowledge recently developed by using novel technologies, in particular chromatographic methods, for optical resolution and to exploit new functions of chiral molecules. The meeting was initiated in 1992 in Tokyo by the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan to promote progress in the pharmaceutical sciences dealing with chiral drugs. It was held under the auspices of the chemical society of Japan and aix additional scientific societies of Japan.