Scientific exploration, above the tide. The 2021 and 2022 " Science Exploration Award " award ceremony was held online on November 26. 100 young scientists shared their glorious moments through the Tencent Conference online, bravely entered the "no man's land" of science, and stood on a new starting line.
100 young scientists received awards online and offline through Tencent Conference.
For four years, the "Science Exploration Award" has rewarded and supported 200 young scientists, insisting on the award "scientists have the final say" and adhering to the spirit of "facing the future, rewarding potential, and encouraging exploration". In this year's list of awards, the first "post-90s" scientist won the award, the first winner in the field of medical science, the first scientist in Macau was selected, and 16 institutions won the award for the first time.
12 women won awards in two years, and the "post-90s"
is one of the highest-value young science and technology talent funding programs in China. The "Science Exploration Award" was established in 2018 and was jointly initiated by 14 well-known scientists including Yang Zhenning , Rao Yi , Shi Yigong , Pan Jianwei , Xie Xiaoliang , and Tencent Foundation initiator Ma Huateng . The award covers ten fields of basic science and cutting-edge technology. Each winner will receive a total of RMB 3 million in 5 years and can freely use the bonus.
"Science Exploration Award" always adheres to the principle of "heroes do not ask where they are". Among the 100 scientists who received the award that day, there were both winners of important national awards, and many of them had not won well-known awards before.
"Science Exploration Award" focuses on the development of female scientists and young scientists, and under the same conditions, tends toward young people and women. Wang Guangyu, the youngest winner of this year's "Science Exploration Award" and a researcher from , Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, is only 31 years old. She is also the first post-90s winner since the establishment of the "Science Exploration Award".
Wang Guangyu believes that "(winning the award) provides me with a lot of fault tolerance space for more challenging work." In her opinion, the "Science Exploration Award" directly fundes young scientific and technological workers in the exploration period's purpose is unique, which is conducive to putting exploration first and daring to enter the "no man's land".
Last year, there were 8 female scientists among the winners, setting the highest award in three years, and 4 more women won the award this year. The "Science Exploration Award" has won a total of 21 women. This also reflects that a series of policies supporting female scientific researchers are achieving results.
rewards medical science for the first time, and encourages "from 0 to 1" to explore
"Science Exploration Award" to reward the field of medical science for the first time this year. "Because we pay attention to human health like the people of the whole country and the people of the world, and we firmly believe that science is the key to the future improvement of human health." Rao Yi, president of Capital Medical University and initiator of the "Science Exploration Award".
The raging COVID-19 pandemic has made everyone realize that every progress in human fight against diseases is inseparable from breakthroughs and innovations in medical research. The award has been added to the field of medical science this year, in order to encourage young scholars to conduct exploratory research on the nature and laws of diseases, support the combination of basic medicine and clinical medicine , and cultivate leading medical talents who truly have research capabilities and can solve urgent clinical needs.
A total of 5 scientists in the medical science field stood out this year. They involved cutting-edge research topics including tumor "degradation", mechanism of multi-organ failure, prevention of mosquito-articular virus infectious diseases, stem cell regeneration treatment of ophthalmic diseases and carrying out the largest esophageal cancer cohort study in China.
There are 2 special winners in the field of medical science, Chief physician and researcher of Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital , and Chief physician and researcher of Xiangya Third Hospital of Central South University Lu Ben. They are physician scientists, both doctors who save lives and are scientists who explore the mysteries of medicine behind practice.
Su Shicheng believes that the characteristic evaluation standards of the "Science Exploration Award" in the field of medical science will inspire more medical researchers to continuously serve the people with original scientific discoveries "from 0 to 1" with clinical exports.
winners have more than 100 results in one year
for the future, reward potential, and encourage exploration. The 200 winners of the "Science Exploration Award" have also made fruitful work and become the backbone of China's scientific and technological innovation .
According to incomplete statistics on public information, in 2022, relevant young scientists have produced results and received more than 100 rewards, which are widely distributed in various important basic science and cutting-edge technology fields.
2019 "Science Exploration Award" winner and professor at Sichuan Agricultural University. Chen Xuewei, the following year he won the award, overcome the hybrid rice breeding problem, and bred new varieties such as F-you498, Yixiangyou2115 and Sichuan6709. It has been widely planted in southwestern rice areas of China; Zhejiang University professor ht The bionic software robot developed by Li Tiefeng was successfully challenged to explore Mariana Trench after three years of winning the award, promoting the application of Chinese software robot in the field of deep-sea engineering...
"From 0 to 1" basic research results have emerged in the work of the winners of the "Science Exploration Award" over the years. They can not only keep in line with national needs and are committed to promoting economic and social development, but also have the poetry of the universe and the ambitions of mankind.
In 2021, the China Sky Eye FAST fast radio burst priority and major project scientific research team won the largest rapid radio burst polarization observation sample to date, and the scientists Dong Subo and Li Kejia in the scientific research team won the "Science Exploration Award" in 2020 and 2022; in October 2021, my country's first optical quantum computing prototype "Jiuzhang No." and superconducting quantum computing prototype " Zuchong Zhihao " were both upgraded. Behind this milestone scientific research result are the winners of the Science Exploration Award Lu Chaoyang and Zhu Xiaobo.
"The impact and changes brought by the Exploration Award, the feedback and encouragement of scientists" makes the "Scientific Exploration Award" adhere to long-termism. At the online award ceremony, Tencent Senior Vice President Xi Dan revealed, "In the past four years of the award establishment, the award-winning young scientists have made great breakthroughs and continuously achieved fruitful results." He reiterated his original intention of the award: "Scientists are often lonely, and we must endure the 'loss of scientists'."
Tencent Senior Vice President Xi Dan reiterated his original intention for the award at the award ceremony.
2 new academicians have won the "Science Exploration Award"
"Science Exploration Award" annually, the list of 50 winners is also outlined from the side that the "Science Exploration Award" helps China's scientific and technological innovation and talent training is also outlined from the side.
From the perspective of the organization distribution of winners, this year's "Science Exploration Award" winners come from 35 different institutions, and the organization distribution is more extensive. For the first time, 16 institutions won the award. In addition to the staff of scientific research institutes, there are also young scientists from hospitals and enterprises.
From the perspective of regional distribution, this year's winners come from 18 cities and regions in China. Macau, Dalian, Shenyang and Jinan are the first winners. It is particularly worth mentioning that the number of winners in western provinces has increased.
This year, the first winner was born in Macau. Mai Peiran, a professor at the University of Macau, is engaged in chip research. After winning the award, he admitted that "the starting point of scientific research in Macau is not high", but "in recent years, he has received support from all aspects of the country, and has frequent interactions with Greater Bay Area , and the progress is very fast."
, a professor at Chengdu University of Technology, , commented: "The number of award winners in the west shows that the national scientific research policy orientation has changed. The development of the West will inevitably continue to emerge with scientific problems. We are on the front line and we must constantly solve problems."
At the award ceremony today, Wang Zhizhen, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said bluntly that the "Science Exploration Award" has made many years of efforts to cultivate and incubate young scientists and talents in the Chinese scientific community, "supported many 'golden boys and jade girls' in the scientific community." She gave examples of the two youngest selected in 2021, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Song Baoliang, and Park Shilong, both of whom were awarded and helped by the "Science Exploration Award".
has been "going to the next level" with the award's influence, and the "Science Exploration Award" has also received enthusiastic participation and support from the scientific and educational circles. During the nomination, recommendation and evaluation of this year's awards, more than 900 academicians from various countries and principals of more than 30 famous universities participated. In the nomination and recommendation stage alone, more than 20 international grand prize winners such as Nobel Prize , Turing Award , and Fields Medal participated. The Science Exploration Award is becoming one of the most influential basic science awards in China and even the world.
Nandu·Aoyi News Reporter Lin Sisi
