The first "post -90s" winner was born!The list of 50 people of the "Scientific Exploration Award" in 2022 was announced

Text ｜ "China Science News" reporter Zhao Guangli

On September 15, the "Scientific Exploration Award", which invested 1 billion yuan to start funds, officially announced the fourth award list. This year, the fourth time of the 150 million yuan award was issued, and 50 young scientists will receive a 3 million yuan bonus funded by the Tencent Foundation in the next five years.

The "China Science News" noticed that of the 50 winners, the youngest winner was only 31 years old. It was Wang Guangyu, a researcher at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. She was also the first "post -90s" winner of the "Scientific Exploration Award". According to the reporter, in March 2022, Wang Guangyu had just been selected as the 7th China Science and Technology Association's young talent support project.

There are 4 women in this winner, and the number of young female scientists has reached 21 in 4 years. According to statistics, 90%of the winners have experienced overseas learning experience in this winning list.

The award list is as follows:

It can be seen from the winning list that this session of the winners present a certain "diversified" characteristics: 50 winners are from 18 cities and regions, and the winners in Macau, Dalian, Shenyang, and Jinan have reflected the basic scientific research layout in my country. Continuous optimization.

In addition, there were 15 winners of this year's freedom, accounting for 30%, a new high.

For the people's life and health, five medical scientists stand out and become the first winners in the field of medical science in the "Science Exploration Award". Their scientific research topics involved "downgrade" of large tumors, exploring multi -organ failure mechanisms, preventing mosquito media infectious diseases, stem cell regeneration treatment of ophthalmological diseases, and the study of China's largest esophageal cancer queue.

This year, the winner of the "Scientific Exploration Award" comes from 35 different institutions, of which 16 institutions have won for the first time. Among them, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (including the University of Science and Technology of China) is still an important talent pool of the "Science Exploration Award": a total of 9 winners from the Chinese Academy of Sciences are distributed in 6 fields, including astronomical and earth, life sciences, and mathematical physics. Subsequently, Peking University and Tsinghua University, each of the two schools were selected.

The "Scientific Exploration Award" was established in 2018 and was initiated by 14 well -known scientists such as Yang Zhenning, Rao Yi, Shi Yigong, Pan Jianwei, Xie Xiaoliang, and Ma Huateng, the initiator of the Tencent Foundation. Award covers 10 areas of basic science and cutting -edge technologies. In the past four years, a total of 200 winners have been selected. As a scientist's public welfare award, the awards adhere to the purpose of "facing the future, rewarding potential, and encouraging exploration."

As one of the highest amount of youth scientific and technological talent funding plans in China, the "Scientific Exploration Award" has been in operation for 4 years, and has received widespread attention from the scientific and educational circles. The award always adheres to the principle of "scientists say", and the review is objective and fair. Qian Yingyi, a senior professor of liberal arts of Tsinghua University and chairman of the "Scientific Exploration Award" Supervision Committee, said: "The entire process of the" Scientific Exploration Award "review work this year is rigorous and orderly, and the applicants of individual 'greeting" have been seriously handled. "

"Whoever say hello ', whoever is" out of the game "." Several awards promoters said: "' Scientific Exploration Award 'from the beginning to say hello to' zero tolerance, and use this one -vote veto mechanism to return academic research to its original intention Essentially. "They advocated that colleagues in the scientific community should work together to create a good academic atmosphere, promote the spirit of scientists, and create a righteous scientific research ecology.

According to the "Scientific Exploration Award" Secretariat, during the nomination, recommendation, and review process of this year's awards, more than 900 academicians and more than 30 well -known universities in various countries participated; during the nomination recommendation stage, more than 20 Nobel Prize, and more than 20 Nobel Prizes, and International Awards winners such as the Turing Award and the Phils Award participated.

The "enterprise investment and public welfare operation" method is the principle of "scientific exploration award" uphold. Ma Huateng said: "The 'Scientific Exploration Award' encourages young scientists to explore basic science and cutting -edge technologies, which is an important measure for Tencent to help the long -term development of national basic research."

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