Congratulations to Dr. Anil S. Guram who was awarded the 2016 Paul N. Rylander Award sponsored by BASF! Anil was a postdoc with the Buchwald group in 1992-1994, where his seminal work was instrumental in the development of C–N cross coupling. Since then, Anil has had continued successin in industry at Carbide, Symyx and Amgen. He is currently the Founder and CSO of Art of Elements, LLC. Among his many scientific contributions, he has developed numerous homogenous and heterogeneous catalysts and processes that have had a worldwide impact in academics, the pharmaceutical industry and fine chemical and commodity chemicals