According to the WeChat *** Yunnan release, on December 1, the 2023 Tengchong Scientist Forum co-sponsored by the people of Yunnan Province and the China Association for Science and Technology opened, with more than 100 academicians, more than 20 presidents of world-renowned universities, more than 500 experts and scholars, and more than 300 heads of enterprises and financial institutions gathered in Tengchong to carry out dialogues and exchanges, promote scientific and technological cooperation, and promote innovation and development with the theme of "science and technology leading the future" and "science and green development".
Lu Yuming, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor of the University of Chinese of Hong Kong, and Zhang Feng, professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were awarded 10 million yuan each. Rao Zihe, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, read out the list of winners of the first Tengchong Science Award, and Academician Gu Binglin and Academician Xu Zhihong presented the awards.
The forum was held from December 1 to 3, during which the opening ceremony and keynote forum, 10 parallel sub-forums, nearly 60 seminars, round tables, dialogues, roadshows, salons and other activities were held, covering international frontier science, biomedicine, energy materials, digital economy, rural revitalization and other fields, promoting the exchange and docking and integrated development of science and technology, education, talents, finance and industry. This year's forum set up the Tengchong Science Award with a prize of 10 million yuan, which is open to selection at home and abroad. More than 2,000 guests from home and abroad participated in the forum and series of activities.
It is worth noting that Lu Yuming, who won the 10 million yuan grand prize this time, has just been co-opted as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Dennis Lo, male, born in Hong Kong on October 12, 1963, is an expert in the clinical application of molecular biology, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a member of the Royal Society, a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, an academician of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, a founding member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, Chinese and is currently the Associate Dean (Research), Head of the Department of Chemical Pathology, Director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, and Chair Professor of Chemical Pathology at the University of Hong Kong, Chinese University. Li Ka Shing Chair Professor of Medicine, President of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance for Science and Technology Innovation.
After graduating from St. Joseph's College in Hong Kong in 1983, Dennis Lo entered the University of Cambridge to study XiAfter graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1986, he went to the University of Oxford for clinical medical training and obtained a Bachelor of Medicine degree in Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Medicine in 1989In 1990, he joined Hertford College, Oxford University as a Junior Research Fellow in Natural Sciences, and in 1994, he was appointed Lecturer in Clinical Biochemistry and Lecturer at Green College, and received his Ph.D. from Oxford University in the same yearHe returned to Hong Kong in 1997 and continued his research work at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chinese of Hong KongHe received his M.D. from the University of Oxford in 2001He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011In 2013, he was elected as a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Member of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing WorldIn 2015, he was elected as a founding member of the Hong Kong Academy of SciencesIn September 2016, he won the first Life Science Prize of the Future Science Prize, and in the same month, he won the Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate Award (Chemistry).In September 2019, he won the Fudan-Zhongzhi Science AwardIn September 2020, he won the Breakthrough in Science Award for Life Sciences [9];In August 2021, he was awarded the "Royal Medal" of the Royal SocietyIn September 2022, he received the Lasker Clinical Research Award, and in November of the same year, he was elected President of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences.
On the evening of November 22, the 2023 co-opted list of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering was officially announced, and a total of 133 people were elected. Lu Yuming was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In 1997, he discovered the existence of free fetal DNA in the peripheral blood of pregnant women, and developed a set of new technologies to accurately analyze and measure fetal DNA in maternal plasma, and is known as the founder of non-invasive DNA prenatal testing.
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