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2024: , Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
2023: , Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences Saarland, Germany
2022: , Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China
2021: , Scripps Research Institute, USA
2020: , University of Michigan, USA
2019: , Princeton University, USA
2018: , University of Basel, Switzerland
2017: , University of British Columbia, Canada
2016: , Scripps Research Institute, USA
2015: , Yale University, USA
2014: , Harvard University, USA
2013: , University of St Andrews, UK
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