Overview of the VinFuture 2025 award ceremony

(Dan Tri) - On the evening of December 5, at Ho Guom Theater (Hanoi), the VinFuture Global Science and Technology Award 2025 was held.

This is the 5th season of the VinFuture Prize honoring breakthrough inventions and technologies that contribute to improving the quality of life of millions of people and promoting the development of many industries and services of important significance to humanity.

The VinFuture 2025 Award Ceremony was attended by senior leaders of the Party, State and National Assembly: National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man; Hanoi Party Secretary Nguyen Duy Ngoc; Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Manh Hung along with many leaders of ministries, branches, scientists, technology CEOs and guests.

The flag-raising ceremony took place solemnly before the award ceremony began.

Professor Sir Richard Henry Friend - Chairman of the VinFuture Prize Council on behalf of the Organizing Committee delivered the opening speech at the VinFuture Prize 2025 Ceremony.

Founded in 2020 with the mission of promoting science to serve humanity, after only 5 years, VinFuture has become a prestigious destination for the world's scientific community, gathering many Nobel laureates and other prestigious awards.

Speaking at the VinFuture 2025 Awards Ceremony, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man emphasized: "Looking back on the past 5 years, we can affirm that this Award not only honors outstanding scientific works but also creates valuable dialogues and forums between scientists, businesses and policymakers; from there, new ideas, new approaches, new cooperation models are opened up and widely spread."

"Rising & Thriving - Let's grow together, prosper together" is the message chosen as the main theme of the VinFuture Awards 2025. This message affirms that sustainable prosperity can only be achieved when we dare to grow, innovate and break through.

The first prize, for a scientist from a developing country, went to Professor Maria Esperanza Martinez-Romero from Mexico for her ecological studies of organisms and symbiotic nitrogen fixation in tropical ecosystems.

Sharing at the event, Professor Maria said she was extremely honored and grateful to receive this award. The VinFuture Prize has contributed to increasing scientific presence and trust in research projects, motivating young people to pursue science, especially in medicine.

The second prize, the Special Prize for Women Scientists, was awarded to Professor Mary-Claire King for her successful discovery of the BRCA1 gene - linked to breast and ovarian cancer.

"I am very honored to receive the award, on behalf of my colleagues I would like to sincerely thank VinFuture. I was a bit surprised to receive an award specifically for female scientists, because the discoveries of all scientists are the same," Professor Mary-Claire King shared.

The VinFuture Special Prize for Scientists researching new fields, belongs to a group of scientists: Professor Venkatesan Sundaresan, Professor Raphaël Mercier, Dr. Emmanuel Guiderdoni, Dr. Imtiyaz Khanday, Dr. Delphine Mieulet with innovations in self-propagating plants.

Hanoi Party Secretary Nguyen Duy Ngoc presented awards to the winning scientists.

And finally, the VinFuture Grand Prize, the largest prize of VinFuture, worth 3 million USD, equivalent to more than 78 billion VND, honors the group of scientists: Dr. Douglas R. Lowy, Dr. John T. Schiller, Dr. Amiee R. Kreimer, Professor Maura L. Gillison for their discoveries and development of the HPV vaccine to prevent tumors caused by the human papilloma virus and will contribute to reducing the global cancer burden in the coming decades.

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man presented the main VinFuture 2025 prize to a group of American scientists.

Scientists honored with the VinFuture Grand Prize speak after the moment of honoring the most outstanding scientific work.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/khoa-hoc/toan-canh-le-trao-giai-vinfuture-2025-20251206015943908.htm