Prof. Dr Hironao Sajiki is a Professor at the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Gifu, Japan. He graduated from Gifu Pharmaceutical University in 1983 and received his Master's degree in 1985. He then spent 1.5 years as a Ph.D. student, 2.5 years as a research fellow at Kotobuki Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and 11 months as a research associate at Gifu Pharmaceutical University. He then joined the State University of New York at Albany (SUNYA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a postdoctoral fellow. He began his career at Gifu Pharmaceutical University in 1995, and since 2021 he has also served as Vice President and Dean of the Graduate School. He received the SSOCJ Nissan Chemical Industries Award for Novel Reaction and Method in 2012, the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award for Divisional Scientific Contribution in 2013, the Ichimura Prize in Science for Excellent Achievement in 2021, and the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan Award and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award, Japan in 2023.