# Future Science Prize

The Future Science Prize (Chinese: 未來科學大獎) is a scientific award established in January 2016 by the Future Forum, a non-profit organization based in mainland China. The award has sometimes been called "China's Nobel Prize" by the media. It is awarded to outstanding scientists independently of their nationality, working on three main topics: life sciences, physical sciences, and mathematics and computer science (since 2017).
The prize comes with a reward of ¥6,500,000 (approximately US$1 million).
Nomination is by invitation only, and the review and final decision is taken by a scientific committee.

## Laureates
### Life Science Prize

| Year | Names | Institution | For |
| 2016 | Dennis Lo | Chinese University of Hong Kong | "his seminal contribution to the widely-used noninvasive prenatal test based on the original discovery of fetal DNA in maternal blood." |
| 2017 | Shi Yigong | Tsinghua University | "his elucidation of high-resolution structures of the eukaryotic spliceosome, revealing the active-site and the molecular-level mechanism of this key complex in mRNA maturation." |
| 2018 | Yuan Longping | National Hybrid Rice Engineering Technology Research Center | "pioneering the use of hybrid vigor to achieve higher yield and increased stress resistance in rice." |
| 2018 | Zhang Qifa | Huazhong Agricultural University | "pioneering the use of hybrid vigor to achieve higher yield and increased stress resistance in rice." |
| 2018 | Li Jiayang | Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology | "pioneering the use of hybrid vigor to achieve higher yield and increased stress resistance in rice." |
| 2019 | Shao Feng | National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing | "his seminal discoveries of cytosolic LPS receptors and downstream effectors in inflammatory responses to pathogenic bacteria." |
| 2020 | Zhang Tingdong | Harbin Medical University | "their discoveries of the therapeutic effects of arsenic trioxide and all trans-retinoic acid on acute promyelocytic leukemia." |
| 2020 | Wang Zhenyi | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | "their discoveries of the therapeutic effects of arsenic trioxide and all trans-retinoic acid on acute promyelocytic leukemia." |
| 2021 | Yuen Kwok-yung | University of Hong Kong | "his discoveries of SARS-CoV-1 as the causative agent for the global SARS outbreak in 2003 and its zoonotic origin, with impact on combating Covid-19 and emerging infectious diseases." |
| 2021 | Malik Peiris | University of Hong Kong | "his discoveries of SARS-CoV-1 as the causative agent for the global SARS outbreak in 2003 and its zoonotic origin, with impact on combating Covid-19 and emerging infectious diseases." |
| 2022 | Li Wenhui | National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing | "his discovery of the Hepatitis B and D virus receptor, sodium taurocholate cotransporting polypeptide (NTCP). This discovery facilitates the development of more effective treatment for hepatitis B and D." |
| 2023 | Jijie Chai | | "the discovery of resistosomes and elucidation of their molecular structures and functions in plant immune responses against pathogens." |
| 2023 | Jian-Min Zhou | | "the discovery of resistosomes and elucidation of their molecular structures and functions in plant immune responses against pathogens." |
| 2024 | Deng Hongkui | Peking University | "his pioneering work on using small molecules to change cell fate and state, in particular to reprogram somatic cells into pluripotent stem cells." |

### Mathematics and Computer Science Prize

| Year | Names | Institution | For |
| 2017 | Chenyang Xu | Peking University | "his fundamental contributions to birational algebraic geometry." |
| 2018 | Burn-Jeng Lin | National Tsing Hua University | "pioneering immersion lithography to continuously scale nano-metric integrated circuit fabrication, reviving and extending Moore’s law for multiple generations.". |
| 2019 | Wang Xiaoyun | Tsinghua University | "her seminal contributions to cryptography by innovating cryptanalysis methods to reveal weaknesses of widely used hash functions, which have enabled new generation of cryptographic hash function standards." |
| 2020 | Peng Shige | Shandong University | "his pioneering work on the theory of backward stochastic differential equations, nonlinear Feynman-Kac formula, and the theory of nonlinear expectations." |
| 2021 | Simon Sze | National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University | "his contributions to understanding carrier transports at the interface between metal and semiconductor, enabling Ohmic and Schottky-contact formations for scaling integrated circuits at the “Moore’s law” rate during the past five decades." |
| 2022 | Ngaiming Mok | University of Hong Kong | "developing the theory of Varieties of Minimal Rational Tangents in algebraic geometry to solve several long-standing problems and proving Ax-Schanuel’s conjecture for Shimura varieties." |
| 2023 | Kaiming He | | "fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence by introducing deep residual learning." |
| 2023 | Jian Sun | | "fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence by introducing deep residual learning." |
| 2023 | Shaoqing Ren | | "fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence by introducing deep residual learning." |
| 2023 | Xiangyu Zhang | | "fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence by introducing deep residual learning." |
| 2024 | Sun Binyong | Zhejiang University | "his remarkable contributions to the representation theory of Lie groups." |

### Physical Science Prize

| Year | Names | Institution | For |
| 2016 | Xue Qikun | Tsinghua University | "his pioneer work in discoveries of novel quantum phenomena using molecular beam epitaxy, including quantum anomalous Hall effect and monolayer FeSe superconductivity." |
| 2017 | Pan Jianwei | University of Science and Technology of China | "his innovative contributions to quantum optical technology, enabling practical implementation of secure communication through quantum key distribution." |
| 2018 | Ma Dawei | Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry | "inventing new catalysts and chemical reactions, which opened avenues for synthesizing organic molecules, especially pharmaceutical molecules." |
| 2018 | Xiaoming Feng | Sichuan University | "inventing new catalysts and chemical reactions, which opened avenues for synthesizing organic molecules, especially pharmaceutical molecules." |
| 2018 | Zhou Qilin | Nankai University | "inventing new catalysts and chemical reactions, which opened avenues for synthesizing organic molecules, especially pharmaceutical molecules." |
| 2019 | Yifan Wang | Institute of High Energy Physics | "the experimental discovery of a new type of neutrino oscillations, which opens the door for new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, particularly for new CP violation which could be the key to understanding the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe." |
| 2019 | Kam-Biu Luk | University of California, Berkeley | "the experimental discovery of a new type of neutrino oscillations, which opens the door for new physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, particularly for new CP violation which could be the key to understanding the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe." |
| 2020 | Lu Ke | Institute of Metal Research | "his pioneering work in synthesizing and discovering nano-twinned structure and gradient nanostructure that simultaneously exhibit superior strength, ductility and conductivity of copper." |
| 2021 | Zhang Jie | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | "his development of laser-based fast electron beam technologies and their applications in ultrafast time-resolved electron microscopy and fast ignition for research towards inertial confinement fusion." |
| 2022 | Xueming Yang | Southern University of Science and Technology | "developing new-generation molecular beam techniques with high resolution and sensitivity for state-resolved reaction dynamics studies, revealing quantum resonances and geometric phase effects in chemical reactions." |
| 2022 | Jie Zhang | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | "developing new-generation molecular beam techniques with high resolution and sensitivity for state-resolved reaction dynamics studies, revealing quantum resonances and geometric phase effects in chemical reactions." |
| 2023 | Zhao Zhongxian | | "their seminal breakthroughs in the discovery of high-temperature superconducting materials and systematic advancements in elevating the transition temperature." |
| 2023 | Chen Xianhui | | "their seminal breakthroughs in the discovery of high-temperature superconducting materials and systematic advancements in elevating the transition temperature." |
| 2024 | Yadong Li | Tsinghua University | "their seminal contributions to the development and application of Single-Atom Catalysis." |
| 2024 | Zhang Tao | Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics | "their seminal contributions to the development and application of Single-Atom Catalysis." |

## Declined prizes

Physicist Lu Ke declined his award in 2020.