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Negishi-Brown Institute was directed by Ei-ichi Negishi. Negishi was a Japanese chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2010 for his work on palladium-catalyzed cross-couplings in organic synthesis. The Negishi-Brown Institute was founded in 2007 as a joint venture between Purdue University and the University of Tokyo. The institute's mission is to promote research and education in the field of organic chemistry.