VinFuture has had more than 500 official nominators from 36 countries

HANOI, VIETNAM – Media OutReach –  29 March 2021 – The VinFuture Foundation announces that over 500
prominent scientists, universities, and recognized organizations from 36
countries, representing six continents have registered to become the Official
Nominators for the VinFuture Prize over one month after the Foundation launched
its Call for Nominations. Such impressive figure demonstrates the enthusiastic
response from the world’s scientific community to this newly established
sci-tech prize as well as VinFuture’s mission of serving humanity.

The Prize
Council held its inaugural meeting on January 20th, 2021, agreeing that
nominations will be sought from all nations and on a global scale.

The
VinFuture Prize officially launched its call for nominations on February 3^rd,
2021, and has so far attracted more than 500 recognized scientists,
universities and organizations around the world to serve as Official Nominators
for the Prize. The majority of nominators are from Asia (35,6%), North America
(32%), and followed by those in Europe (21.7%), Oceania (7.2%), and Latin
America and Africa (3.5%).

Regarding
the areas of expertise of the organizational/individual nominators, due to the
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the urgent demand in healthcare, nominators
in the field of biomedical research constitute a large proportion of 29.2%,
followed by chemistry-physics (23.6%), computer science, data, artificial
intelligence, and robotics (16.3%), and environment, renewable energy and new
materials (18.3%).

 The remaining are individual/organizational nominators in
the interdisciplinary fields.

The
nominators are globally influential experts, reputable researchers, and
scientists, laureates of international prestigious science and technology
prizes, as well as renowned universities, academies, research institutes,
technology corporations and innovation incubators from 36 different countries.
Notably, there have been favorable responses from scientists at leading
universities and research institutes in the world, such as the Harvard
University (USA), where many prominent scientists converge; the National
Institutes of Health (NIH, USA) – the lead agency of the U.S. government in
public health; the Max Planck Society (Germany)- the world’s leading research
organization in science and technology; the 
University of Cambridge, the University of  Oxford, which are well-known for natural  science and engineering, being home to many
Nobel Laureates; the  University of
Tokyo-  the leading higher
education organization in Japan and the Chinese Academy of Science, one of the world’s largest research
organizations.

Dr.
Le Mai Lan – Vice Chairwoman of Vingroup cum Designated Representative of the
VinFuture Foundation remarked: “VinFuture
Prize is a new initiative and is also the first science and technology prize
originating from Vietnam. Hence, we are delighted to have more than 500 recognized
organizations and  individuals and from
all over the world register to make nominations in just over one month after we
launched the Call for Nominations. This is an impressive figure boosting our
confidence in VinFuture’s mission to serve humanity and in its introduction at
the right time meeting the right demand, as well as confirming the endorsement
and support from the sci-tech community, academies and societies, universities,
and incubators around the world. The fact that the Prize is introduced whilst
we are facing global challenges has been a motivation for VinFuture to continue
looking for well-deserved and impactful scientific innovations and solutions
that may bring about meaningful change to the humanity.”

The
VinFuture Prize is a global science and technology prize founded by Mr. Pham
Nhat Vuong, Chairman of Vingroup, and his wife, Madam Pham Thu Huong, to
recognize groundbreaking scientific discovery and technological inventions
proven to create or have the potential to create better change in the everyday
lives of millions of people and foster a sustainable living environment for
future generations. Apart from the VinFuture Grand Prize of VND 70 billion
(equivalent to US$3 million – one of the largest global prizes), three Special
Prizes of VND 11.5 billion each (equivalent to US$500,000) will be awarded
annually to innovators from developing countries, female innovators and
innovators with outstanding achievements in emerging fields.

The
Call for Nominations for the 2021 VinFuture Prize is available at www.vinfutureprize.org until June 7^th, 2021.
The laureates will be announced in December 2021 and the official award
ceremony will be held in Vietnam in January 2022./.