VinFuture 2025 closes nomination round with 1,705 applications

In particular, the number of official nomination partners of the Award has grown dramatically, reaching 14,772 partners, an increase of more than 12 times compared to the number of 1,200 in the first season, worthy of being a gathering place of global intelligence.

The 2025 season will not only see a strong breakthrough in the number of nominations but also see increasingly deep participation from the prestigious international scientific community. In particular, the number of nominating partners will increase by more than 60% compared to 2024, mainly scientists from the Americas (accounting for 31%), followed by Europe (28.6%), Asia (26.8%), Africa (7.1%) and Oceania (6.5%).

Notably, nearly 50% (7,240) of the 14,772 nominating partners this year are experts from the world's leading universities and research institutes, such as Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University (USA), Cambridge University, Oxford University (UK), University of Melbourne (Australia), University of Toronto (Canada), National University of Singapore (Singapore)... Notably, 1,395 nominating partners (equivalent to 9.4%) are scientists in the top 2% of the most cited researchers in the world, according to the ranking of Stanford University experts.

The 2025 nominations continue to span a wide range of essential areas of global life and sustainability, including: medicine and health care (36.7%); energy, transport and construction (17.8%); environment and the earth (17.8%); agriculture and food (11.3%).

These are all key fields, reflecting the development trend of science and technology of mankind and are attracting great attention from the international community.

VinFuture's nomination partners play an important role in finding and introducing worthy scientific works. The works create positive impacts on human life, while contributing to spreading information about the VinFuture Prize to the international scientific community.

Convinced by the noble mission and uniqueness of the VinFuture Prize, the nominating partners work on a voluntary basis. In 2024, from the nomination of Professor Monica Lam, a leading computer science expert at Stanford University (USA), Mr. Jensen Huang, CEO and co-founder of Nvidia, was honored at the VinFuture Main Prize for his contributions from the industry to promote the advancement of deep learning.

Dr. Le Thai Ha, Executive Director of VinFuture Foundation shared: "The 5-year journey with the mission of "Science serving humanity" has made VinFuture a convergence point of global intelligence with the desire to create a better future for the world."

According to Dr. Le Thai Ha, the remarkable growth in the number of nominating partners and the increasingly high quality of nominated works each year not only demonstrates the increasingly strong trust of the international scientific community in the Award, but also reflects the urgent need for breakthrough scientific and technological solutions to build a world where humans develop in harmony with a sustainable environment.

The Preliminary Round of the VinFuture Prize 2025 will take place from the end of May to the end of August, to carefully review and select the most worthy works to advance to the final round of awards.

The 10-member Preliminary Jury will evaluate the nominations based on a rigorous review process and the highest international standards, ensuring scientific rigor, fairness and transparency. Core evaluation criteria include the level of scientific and technological progress, positive impact on human life, as well as the scale and sustainability of the project.

After 5 years of operation, the VinFuture Prize has quickly affirmed its stature and prestige in the international arena, when many Prize Winners have been consecutively honored by prestigious global awards.

Typical examples include scientists such as Dr. Katalin Karikó, Professor Drew Weissman (VinFuture Main Prize 2021, Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023), Dr. Demis Hassabis, Dr. John Jumper (VinFuture Special Prize 2022, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024), Professor Geoffrey Hinton (VinFuture Main Prize 2024, Nobel Prize in Physics 2024), Professor Yoshua Bengio, Professor Yann LeCun, Professor Geoffrey Hinton, Mr. Jensen Huang, and Professor Fei-Fei Li (VinFuture Main Prize 2024, Queen Elizabeth Prize 2025), Professor Daniel Joshua Drucker, Professor Joel Francis Habener, Professor Jens Juul Holst, Associate Professor Svetlana Mojsov (VinFuture Special Prize 2023, Breakthrough Prize 2025).

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