Beijing, 13 September 2021 (TDI): According to award organizer, Joseph Sriyal Malik Peiris (Sri Lanka) and Kwok-Yung Yuen (Hong Kong), won the award in life sciences, in the 2021 Future Science Prize, also known as China’s Nobel Prize, because of their discovery of the causative agent of the SARS outbreak in 2003 and its impact on emerging fatal diseases and Covid-19.
Consul General of China to Karachi tweeted about China’s Nobel Prize laureates today:
Hong Kong-based scientists Kwok-Yung Yuen and Joseph Sriyal Malik Peiris won the prize in life sciences in the 2021 Future Science Prize, dubbed “China’s Nobel Prize,” for their major discoveries in the coronavirus studies and the impact on #COVID19 fight. pic.twitter.com/8gmbZwcRAZ
— libijian李碧建 (@libijian2) September 13, 2021
Entrepreneurs and renowned scientists in 2016 established this privately funded science privilege to honor the Chinese innovations with their long-lasting effect on the world. This prize has three categories, Physical Science Prize, Life Science Prize, and Computer and Mathematics Science Prize, with $1 million for each prize.
Yuen in one interview said that he is very pleased and grateful to have such a prestigious price as this is not only important in China but also in the international world. Yuen also explained that as horseshoe bats were the reservoir for past SARS-CoV-1, similarly, SARS-CoV-2 went from bats to other mammals before coming into humans. But he also asserted that there are paramount differences in both diseases. Yuen along with his research team, working on the prevention of public health crises like Covid-19.
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