Three Special Prizes were awarded to the following works: “Innovations in the development of oral cholera vaccines in developing countries”, “Advances in polymer material design and methods for biomedical applications”, and “Development of CAR T cell therapy for the treatment of cancer and other diseases”.
Speaking at the VinFuture Awards Ceremony 2024, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh expressed his delight that the VinFuture Science Week 2024 and today's awards ceremony brought together the "elite" and "giants" of world science with outstanding scientific achievements, especially the four scientific works that were honored. The Prime Minister assessed: "With a scope encompassing core fields such as computer science, public health , global health, materials science, and regenerative medicine, the works honored today are all groundbreaking initiatives, important solutions to address common global, people-to-people, and comprehensive challenges, and contribute to shaping the future of the world."
Congratulating the honored scientists , Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh affirmed that Vietnam is committed to creating the most favorable conditions for scientists, science and technology, and innovation to shine and develop strongly. With the spirit of "harmonious benefits, shared risks," Vietnam always welcomes and encourages scientists, the business community, and investors to realize their ideas, opportunities, and investment projects in Vietnam.
Vietnam is committed to continuously improving its science and technology environment and innovation, always being a reliable partner, a loyal companion, and striving its utmost to contribute to its role as one of the "torchbearers" in developing the global science and technology, startup, and innovation ecosystem.
The four winning projects were outstanding, surpassing nearly 1,500 impressive nominations from over 80 countries and territories worldwide. Covering core fields such as Computer Science, Public Health and Global Health, Materials Science, and Regenerative Medicine, the honored works are groundbreaking innovations that not only offer solutions to common global challenges but also contribute to shaping the future of humanity.
In particular, with their outstanding potential for exponential future growth, the VinFuture 2024 award-winning projects are clear evidence of a resilient spirit of breakthrough, overcoming all limitations to open up new and promising directions and application fields in science and technology.
This year, the VinFuture 2024 Main Prize was awarded to five scientists: Professor Yoshua Bengio and Professor Geoffrey E. Hinton (Canada), Mr. Jen-Hsun Huang, Professor Yann LeCun and Professor Fei-Fei Li (USA) for their groundbreaking contributions to advancing deep learning.
Advances in deep learning have ushered in a groundbreaking era of technological innovation, enabling machines to “learn” from massive amounts of data and achieve astonishing accuracy in tasks such as image recognition, natural language processing, and decision-making.
This achievement is thanks to the revolutionary contributions to neural networks and deep learning algorithms from Professor Geoff E. Hinton, Professor Yann LeCun, and Professor Yoshua Bengio. In addition, Jen-Hsun Huang pioneered the development of accelerated computing platforms, fueling the explosion of the modern AI (Artificial Intelligence) era. Professor Fei-Fei Li's creation of the ImageNet dataset also propelled advancements in image recognition systems, enabling the training of deep learning models on a large scale.
Since 2012, deep learning has become a key tool driving major advances in many fields such as healthcare, automation, and financial services, thereby shaping future innovation and development.
In addition to the Main Award, VinFuture 2024 also awarded 3 Special Prizes, each worth $500,000, to scientists researching emerging fields, female scientists, and scientists from developing countries.
The VinFuture 2024 Special Prize for Scientists researching new fields was awarded to Professor Zelig Eshhar (Israel), Professor Carl H. June, and Professor Michel Sadelain (USA) for their development of CAR T cell therapy for the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
The VinFuture 2024 Special Award for Female Scientists was presented to Professor Kristi S. Anseth (USA) for her advances in polymer material design and methods for biomedical applications.
The VinFuture 2024 Special Prize for Scientists from Developing Countries honored Dr. Firdausi Qadri (Bangladesh) for his innovative development of an oral cholera vaccine for developing countries.
Source: https://daidoanket.vn/giai-thuong-vinfuture-2024-vinh-danh-nhung-sang-kien-dot-pha-10296002.html
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