Yuan Longping, known as the "world father of hybrid rice", has won the life science section of the Future Science Prize.

On November 18, Zhang Qifa, Zhou Qilin, Feng Xiaoming, Burn J. Lin and Ma Dawei accepted media’s interviews to express their feelings of being the laureates at the 2018 Future Science Prize Laureates Press Conference of Future Science Prize Ceremony & Future Forum (F2) Science Symposium.

In September, Xu was awarded the 2017 Future Science Prize, which aims at reward- ing scientists that have made outstanding contributions to science and technology in China. He was the very first mathematician to win the prize, and also the youngest among this year’s laureates.

Prof. Dennis Yuk-ming LO from the Faculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) received today the Future Science Prize – Life Science Prize for his seminal contribution to the widely-used noninvasive prenatal test based on the original discovery of fetal DNA in maternal blood which has benefited millions of pregnant women globally.

The first winners of the Future Science Prize were announced on September 19th. Tsinghua University Professor and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Xue Qikun won the Physical Science Award of the Future Science Prize for his groundbreaking discoveries of novel quantum phenomena using molecular beam epitaxy, including quantum anomalous Hall effect and monolayer FeSe superconductivity.