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Million Dollar Future Science Award Announced: The Discovery of SARS Pathogen and Transmission Chain Wins |
At about 10:30 am on September 12, 2021, the 2021 Future Science Award will be announced in Beijing
.
Professor Yuan Guoyong and Professor Pei Weiss of the University of Hong Kong won the "Life Science Award", one of the three awards
.
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The award was given to them in recognition of their discovery of the coronavirus (SARS-COV-1) as the pathogen that caused the global severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 and the chain of infection from animals to humans.
The response to the infectious diseases caused by the MERS and COVID-19 coronavirus has had a significant impact
.
Professor Yuan Guoyong graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong in 1981 and served as the head of the Department of Microbiology of the University of Hong Kong from 2001 to 2011.
He is an outstanding microbiologist, infectious disease expert and surgeon
.
He is the Hong Kong Medical Sciences pathologist, surgeon, Royal College of Physicians Wing award Fellow , School of Medicine, Surgery, Glasgow Royal Wing awarded Fellow and the American Medical academician ; he 2006 - Get Jo's Senior Investigator Award in 2007 and 2007 he was chosen as the China Engineering Academy of Sciences , in 2002 he was in Hong Kong as the Justice of the Peace in 2004 and the Hong Kong silver Bauhinia Medal issued by the special administrative Region
.
Academician, Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, Academician, Academician, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Because of his expertise and contributions in emerging infectious diseases, Yuan Guoyong was appointed as the director of the Pasteur Institute of the University of Hong Kong in 2000 to promote the cooperation between the University of Hong Kong and the Pasteur Institute of France
.
His research is characterized by finding treatments for various intractable diseases on various hospital beds, and then bringing clinical samples to experiments to identify new pathogens.
This is how many animal-derived pathogens were discovered, using laboratory methods.
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Yuan Guoyong's expertise was confirmed in the control of the global SARS outbreak in 2003
.
He played a vital role in the discovery of the source of SARS infection, the SARS coronavirus.
The identification of the virus is the key to the effective control of the epidemic
He first published a paper on the laboratory diagnosis of avian influenza H5N1 in the Lancet medical journal in 1998.
This paper has been cited more than 500 times.
In recognition of his contribution in the field of infectious diseases, the University of Hong Kong in 2005 In 2005, he was appointed as Professor of Infectious Diseases Fok Yingdong.
Also in 2005, in order to highlight the achievements and contributions of the University of Hong Kong in this field, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China awarded the State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases to the University of Hong Kong , which was established outside mainland China.
The first State Key Laboratory, Yuan Guoyong has been the first laboratory director so far
.
Professor Peiris, University of Ceylon, MBBS, Ph.
D.
philosophy at Oxford University, School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Royal British Academy of Sciences , Imperial College London, Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and the British Medical Fellow , Hong Kong Pathology and Medicine Fellow , Hong Kong community honor School of Medicine, Fellow of the British School of public health Fellow , American microbial Academy of Sciences academician ; Hong Kong Academy of invasive Institute Fellow
.
Professor Pei Weiss is currently the Chair Professor of Virology of Public Health at Li Ka Shing School of Medicine, University of Hong Kong , and Professor of Tan Huazheng Foundation (Medical Science)
.
Professor Peiris cooperation leadership in Hong Kong, the World Health Organization influenza H5 Reference Laboratory of the University, as well as the leadership of the Hong Kong University Pasteur Research Center ─
.
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His current research includes the mechanism of influenza virus, innate immune response, transmission, ecology, and epidemiology in humans and animals (such as poultry, pigs and wild birds)
.
His research has made significant discoveries about the emergence of human swine flu and avian flu viruses and other pathological mechanisms.
The research he participated in also provides an empirical basis for the control of flu and animal flu
He has a new understanding of the severe pneumonia caused by H5N1 bird flu, and even introduced new treatments for the disease
.
During the SARS outbreak in 2003, he played an important role in the discovery, diagnosis and pathology of the SARS coronavirus
.
The Future Science Award is China’s first world-class private science award.
It was established by the Future Forum in 2016.
It has three awards, namely Life Science Award, Material Science Award, and Mathematics and Computer Science Award, with a single prize of 1 million US dollars (about 6.
5 million yuan).
), each award is jointly donated by four donors
.
The award adopts the nomination invitation system and the international peer review system
.
Academician of the Academy of Sciences
The Future Science Award is held every year in Beijing, China, to commend scientists who have made major scientific research achievements for all mankind
.
The scientific summit held at the same time as the award ceremony aims to invite outstanding scientists from all over the world to share the cutting-edge achievements of scientific development, discuss the interdisciplinary and academic innovation, and promote the application of science-led industries
.
Past winners
Past winners Since 2016, a total of 20 winners of the Future Science Award have been selected, and they have been widely recognized in the fields of science and society
.
They are:
Life Science Award
2016 Yuk-Ming Dennis LO
2017 Yigong Shi
2018 Li Jiayang Yuan Longping Zhang Qifa
2019 Shao Feng
2020 Wang Zhenyi Zhang Tingdong
Material Science Award
2016 Xue Qikun
2017 Pan Jianwei
2018 Ma Dawei, Feng Xiaoming, Zhou Qilin
2019 Wang Yifang and Lu Stakes (Kam-Biu LUK)
Mathematics and Computer Science Award
2017 Xu Chenyang
2018 Burn J.
LIN
2019 Wang Xiaoyun
2020 Peng Shige