Three Special Awards honored the following works: “Innovation to improve oral cholera vaccines in developing countries”, “Advances in polymer material design and methods for biomedical applications” and “Development of CAR T cell therapy to treat cancer and other diseases”.
Speaking at the VinFuture Awards Ceremony 2024, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh expressed his joy that the VinFuture Science Week 2024 and the Awards Ceremony today brought together the "elite" and "giants" of world science with outstanding scientific achievements, especially the 4 honored scientific works. The Prime Minister commented: "With a scope covering core areas such as computer science, public health, global health, materials science and regenerative medicine, the works honored today are all breakthrough initiatives, important solutions to solve common challenges of a global, national, comprehensive nature, 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, technology and innovation to shine and develop strongly. With the spirit of "harmonious benefits and 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 continuing to strongly improve the science, technology and innovation environment, always being a reliable partner, a loyal companion and making every effort to contribute to its role as one of the "fire-bearers" in developing the global science, technology, startup and innovation ecosystem.
The four award-winning projects have excelled against nearly 1,500 impressive nominations from more than 80 countries and territories around the world. Covering core areas such as Computer Science, Public Health and Global Health, Materials Science and Regenerative Medicine, the honored projects are all groundbreaking innovations that not only provide solutions to common global challenges but also contribute to shaping the future of humanity.
In particular, with the potential for exponential growth in the future, the VinFuture 2024 award-winning projects are a clear demonstration of the spirit of resilient breakthrough, overcoming all limits to open up new directions and potential 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 the advancement of deep learning.
Advances in deep learning have ushered in a groundbreaking era of technological innovation, where machines can “learn” from massive amounts of data and achieve incredible accuracy in tasks such as image recognition, natural language processing, and decision making.
This achievement was made possible by the revolutionary contributions to neural networks and deep learning algorithms of Professor Geoff E. Hinton, Professor Yann LeCun, and Professor Yoshua Bengio. In addition, Mr. 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 spurred advances in image recognition systems, enabling the training of deep learning models at scale.
Since 2012, deep learning has become a key tool driving major advances in areas such as healthcare, automation, and financial services, shaping future innovation and growth.
In addition to the Main Prize, VinFuture 2024 also awards 3 Special Prizes, each worth 500,000 USD, to Scientists researching new 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 the development of CAR T cell therapy to treat cancer and other diseases.
The VinFuture 2024 Special Prize for Female Scientists was awarded to Professor Kristi S. Anseth (USA) for 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 innovation in improving oral cholera vaccines in developing countries.
Source: https://daidoanket.vn/giai-thuong-vinfuture-2024-vinh-danh-nhung-sang-kien-dot-pha-10296002.html
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