Tang Prize

Tang Prize

Inaugural Tang Prize Poster in 2014
Awarded for Outstanding contributions in sustainable development, biopharmaceutical science, sinology, and rule of law
Country Taiwan
Presented by The Tang Prize Foundation
First awarded 2014
Official website www.tang-prize.org

The Tang Prize (Chinese: 唐獎) is a set of biennial international awards bestowed in a number of categories by panels of judges convened by Academia Sinica, Taiwan's top research institution. The Tang Prize was established by Taiwanese entrepreneur Samuel Yin in December 2012.[1]

Award categories

The award categories of the Tang Prize include sustainable development, biopharmaceutical science, sinology, and rule of law.[2]

Laureates

Tang Prize laureates receive NT$40 million (US$1.34 million) as well as a research grant of NT$10 million, for a total of NT$50 million (US$1.67 million).[3]

Year Field Name Nationality Citation
2016
Rule of Law
 Louise Arbour  Canada "for her enduring contributions to international criminal justice and the protection of human rights, to promoting peace, justice and security at home and abroad, and to working within the law to expand the frontiers of freedom for all."[4]
Sinology
 William Theodore de Bary  United States "for his pioneering contributions in Confucian studies. In his remarkable academic career spanning over seven decades, he has written and edited over 30 books with many of them making ground-breaking contributions that provide both enlightening insight and honest critique into Confucianism."[5]
Biopharmaceutical Science
 Emmanuelle Charpentier  France "for the development of CRISPR/Cas9 as a breakthrough genome editing platform that promises to revolutionize biomedical research and disease treatment."[6]
Jennifer Doudna  United States
Feng Zhang  United States
Sustainable Development
 Arthur H. Rosenfeld  United States "for his lifelong and pioneering innovations in energy efficiency resulting in immense reductions in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions around the world."[7]
2014
Rule of Law
 Albie Sachs  South Africa "for his many contributions to human rights and justice globally through an understanding of the rule of law in which the dignity of all persons is respected and the strengths and values of all communities are embraced, in particular through his efforts in the realization of the rule of law in a free and democratic South Africa, working as activist, lawyer, scholar, and framer of a new Constitution to heal the divisions of the past and to establishing a society that respects diversity and is based on democratic values, social justice and fundamental human rights."[8]
Sinology
 Yu Ying-shih  United States "for his mastery of and insight into Chinese intellectual, political, and cultural history with an emphasis on his profound research into the history of public intellectuals in China."[9]
Biopharmaceutical Science
 James P. Allison  United States "for the discoveries of CTLA-4 and PD-1 as immune inhibitory molecules that led to their applications in cancer immunotherapy."[10]
Tasuku Honjo  Japan
Sustainable Development
 Gro Harlem Brundtland  Norway "for her innovation, leadership and implementation of sustainable development that laid out the scientific and technical challenges for the global community to achieve a better balance of economic development, environmental integrity, and social equality for the benefit of all humanity."[11][12]

References

  1. ↑ Tang Prize Introduction
  2. ↑ Winners of Tang Prize hope it can draw young talent to science
  3. ↑ 'Asian Nobels' will bring prize-giving up to date
  4. ↑ 2016 Tang Prize in Rule of Law
  5. ↑ 2016 Tang Prize in Sinology
  6. ↑ Tang Prize Foundation>>Laureates>>Biopharmaceutical Science>>2016 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science
  7. ↑ 2016 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development
  8. ↑ Tang Prize Foundation>>Laureates>>Rule of Law>>2014 Tang Prize in Rule of Law
  9. ↑ Tang Prize Foundation>>Laureates>>Sinology>>2014 Tang Prize in Sinology
  10. ↑ Tang Prize Foundation>>Laureates>>Biopharmaceutical Science>>2014 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science
  11. ↑ 2014 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development
  12. ↑ Tang Prize laureate calls for more sustainable development efforts
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