BEIJING – The winners of the 2024 Future Science Prize were announced in Beijing on Friday, with four scientists receiving awards in the fields of biological sciences, physical sciences, mathematics and computer science, respectively.
Deng Hongkui, a professor at Peking University’s Boya Chair and a senior scientist at Changping Laboratory, won the prize in biological sciences for his pioneering work on using chemical strategies to reprogram somatic cells into pluripotent stem cells, thereby changing the fate and state of cells.
Zhang Tao, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, and Li Yadong, a professor at the Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University, shared the prize in physical sciences for their pioneering contributions to the research and application of unique technologies. -Atomic catalysis.
Sun Binyong, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Mathematics at Zhejiang University, won the Mathematics and Computer Science Prize for his notable contributions to the theory of Lie groups.
The Future Science Award was introduced in 2016 through an organization of scientists and entrepreneurs, focused on original basic clinical research. So far, 39 winners have been recognized.