The awards and their criteria are as follows: - significant international impacts - original and passed the trial of time - completed mainly in the Greater China region (including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. There is no restriction on the nationalities of the nominees).

Future Science Prize Committee announced the winners of 2019 in Beijing on September 7. Prof. Feng Shao won the Prize in life sciences for his seminal discoveries of cytosolic LPS receptors and downstream effectors in inflammatory responses to pathogenic bacteria”. Prof. Yifang Wang and Prof. Kam-Biu Luk won the Future Science Prize in physical sciences for the experimental discovery of a new type of neutrino oscillations, which opens the door for new physics beyond the Standard Model

The 2019 Press Conference of the Future Science Prize will be held on September 7, 2019.

The 2019 Future Science Prize Week will be held from November 13 to November 17, 2019.

Nominations for the 2019 prizes are now closed. Nominations will again be taken next year.