Kenichi Yokoyama, Ph.D. has been selected as the 2019 recipient of the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry administered by the American Chemical Society (ACS). The Pfizer Award was established in 1945 and aims to stimulate fundamental research in enzyme chemistry by scientists, not over forty years of age. Dr. Yokoyama is the second recipient of this award in this department. The first awardee was Dr. Paul Modrich in 1983.