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NEWS FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE AWARDS

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences goes to Stephen Buchwald for creating more efficient, stable, broad-spectrum catalysts of importance in drug discovery

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences has gone in this seventh edition to U.S. chemist Stephen Buchwald “for the development of catalytic routes based on palladium and copper to construct carbon-nitrogen and carbon-carbon bonds,” an advance with “great impact” on the “efficient synthesis of modern pharmaceuticals and compounds for agricultural use,” in the words of the prize jury.