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The R. U. Lemieux Award is presented to an organic chemist who has made a distinguished contribution to any area of organic chemistry and who is currently working in Canada.
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The 2025 winner of the R. U. Lemieux Award is:
Jason Hein, MCIC
University of British Columbia
Jason Hein is a Professor at the University of British Columbia and Adjunct Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway. He completed his Ph.D. with Phil Hultin at the University of Manitoba in 2005, moving to become an NSERC PDF fellowship with Barry Sharpless and then senior research associate with Donna Blackmond at Scripps Research. In 2011 he started his research program at the University of California, Merced, joining the University of British Columbia in 2015, where he was promoted to Professor in 2024. His internationally recognized work in automated kinetic reaction analysis has advanced reaction discovery and optimization, yielding key mechanistic insights into catalytic processes. He is a founding member of the Acceleration Consortium based at the University of Toronto, driving advancements in self-driving laboratories and digital chemistry. In 2021, he became Associate Editor for Digital Discoveries and launched Telescope Innovations to translate academic research into practical solutions.