Congratulations on Prof. Yang and Prof. Gong on winning the second class national natural science award for 2016

The national science and technology reward was held in Beijing Great Hall of the People on January 9, 2017. In the conference, the second class national natural science award for 2016 was announced. Professor Yang and Prof. Gong, together with Prof. Tang and Prof. Chen from Tsinghhua University and Peking University respectively  won the second class prize of the national science and technology reward for 2016 by their research in “the total synthesis of natural products with significant biological activities”. This research belonged to the field of organic synthetic chemistry and natural product total synthesis. The research teamrealized the first total synthesis of more than 20 natural products.