Source: Xinmin.com
Caption: Scene from the Technology Innovation Forum. Photo by Dong Yihong, reporter for Xinmin Evening News and Xinmin.com
【Xinmin.com - Latest Report】What are the world's leading scientists thinking about and focusing on? On the 2nd day of the "Fudan Technology Innovation Forum and the 1st Fudan-Zhongye Science Award Ceremony", these "top minds" gathered in Shanghai to discuss global cutting-edge fields and innovation trends.
Xinmin Evening News and Xinmin.com reporters learned that Dr. Ding Zhaozhong, chairman of the "Fudan-Zhongye Science Award" judging committee, announced the winners of the 1st "Fudan-Zhongye Science Award". Nobel Prize winner, Professor Roger D. Kornberg of Stanford University, presented honorary certificates to the award recipients.American immunologist James Allison and Japanese immunologist Tasuku Honjo were awarded the "Fudan-Zhongye Science Award" for their outstanding contributions to human tumor immunology.This year's "Fudan-Zhongye Science Award" is the first, and it awards outstanding scientists in the field of biomedicine. Each recipient will receive a certificate and trophy, and will share a 3,000,000 RMB prize donated by Zhongye Group.
During the main forum, Professor Roger D. Kornberg of Stanford University, Professor Zhang Shousheng of Stanford University, and top expert in the global big data field, Michelle I. Jordan, delivered special reports on topics such as human disease treatment, the quantum leap in computing, computational thinking, and data science.
This forum, lasting three days, consists of a main forum and four sub-forums, with the theme focusing on multiple fields such as biomedicine, artificial intelligence, big data, and innovation and entrepreneurship. More than 400 guests from academia, business, and government around the world participated in this forum. (Reporter Dong Yihong, Xinmin Evening News and Xinmin.com)