HANOI, VIETNAM –
Media OutReach Newswire – 18 May 2026 – After six seasons, the VinFuture Prize has not solely expanded its affect within the worldwide scientific group, however has additionally affirmed its place as a prestigious international prize devoted to figuring out and honoring breakthroughs with profound significance for the way forward for humanity.
H.E. Tran Thanh Man, Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam, presents the 2025 VinFuture Grand Prize to the scientists whose pioneering contributions led to the invention and improvement of the HPV vaccine. In the 2026 season, nominations in medication and healthcare proceed to account for the biggest share (38.4%), alongside different essential fields together with environmental and earth sciences, power, transportation and building, as properly as meals and agriculture. Photo courtesy of VinFuture.
A Global Network Bringing Together More Than 17,000 Outstanding Minds
This yr’s VinFuture nominations span a variety of essential fields, together with medication and healthcare (38.4%), environmental and earth sciences (17%), power, transportation, and building (15%), meals and agriculture (10.6%), as properly as different scientific and technological disciplines (19%).
At the identical time, the official nominator community of the VinFuture Prize has continued to broaden considerably, reaching 17,154 nominators from 117 nations and territories throughout all 5 continents. This represents a rise of roughly 16% in contrast with the 2025 season and a greater than fourteenfold enlargement in contrast with the inaugural season in 2021. Moreover, the variety of nations and territories represented throughout the nominator community has practically doubled over the previous six years.
Notably, 1,415 nominators for the 2026 VinFuture Prize are ranked among the many world’s prime 2% most-cited researchers. Nearly 8,000 specialists are affiliated with main universities, analysis institutes, and scientific organizations worldwide, together with Australian Academy of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States), Stanford University (United States), Harvard University (United States), University of California, Berkeley (United States), University of Oxford (United Kingdom), National University of Singapore (Singapore), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), amongst others.
Participating on a voluntary foundation, these nominators play a significant position in figuring out and recommending excellent scientific improvements able to producing significant and lasting enhancements to the lives of billions of individuals worldwide. They additionally contribute considerably to extending the worldwide attain of the VinFuture Prize throughout the worldwide scientific group and selling cross-border tutorial connections. Several distinguished nominators have traveled to Vietnam through the 2024 and 2025 VinFuture Sci-Tech Weeks to attach and trade data instantly with the Vietnamese scientific group.
“The continued growth in both the number of nominations and our network of more than 17,000 nominators reflects the increasing confidence that leading scientists and prestigious institutions around the world place in VinFuture Prize and its mission to identify and honor scientific and technological innovations with meaningful impact on humanity. This momentum also reinforces our commitment to upholding rigorous and transparent evaluation standards, while advancing a long-term vision of connecting global intellect in pursuit of a better future for all,” mentioned Dr. Thai-Ha Le, Managing Director of the VinFuture Foundation.
Following the conclusion of the nomination interval, the Pre-Screening Committee will start the method of evaluating and deciding on essentially the most excellent scientific works for consideration by the VinFuture Prize Council within the ultimate judging spherical, which is predicted to proceed via early September 2026. All nominations will bear a rigorous multi-layer analysis course of primarily based on stringent worldwide requirements to make sure the best ranges of scientific integrity, equity, and transparency.
The core analysis standards embody the diploma of scientific and technological development, the potential for significant affect on human life, as properly as the size and long-term sustainability of the proposed improvements.
Vietnam’s Growing Imprint on the Global Innovation Map
After six seasons, the VinFuture Prize has firmly established its repute and standing throughout the international science and expertise panorama. Several VinFuture Laureates have subsequently been honored by among the world’s most prestigious scientific awards, together with the Nobel Prize, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, and the Breakthrough Prize, demonstrating VinFuture’s capability to acknowledge, at an early stage, improvements with foundational significance for the way forward for humanity.
Notable examples embody Prof. Omar Yaghi (2021 VinFuture Special Prize; 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry); Dr. Katalin Karikó and Prof. Drew Weissman (2021 VinFuture Grand Prize; 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine); Drs. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper (2022 VinFuture Special Prize; 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry); Prof. Geoffrey Hinton (2024 VinFuture Grand Prize; 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics); as properly as Prof. Yoshua Bengio, Prof. Yann LeCun, Prof. Geoffrey Hinton, Mr. Jensen Huang, and Prof. Fei-Fei Li (2024 VinFuture Grand Prize; 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering). Additional examples embody Prof. Daniel Drucker, Prof. Joel Habener, Prof. Jens Juul Holst, and Assoc. Prof. Svetlana Mojsov (2023 VinFuture Special Prize), who later acquired the 2025 Breakthrough Prize.
Beyond recognizing transformative scientific achievements, VinFuture has develop into a degree of convergence for data, collaboration, and the aspiration to serve humanity. Over the course of six seasons, VinFuture has helped shape a extra open, linked, and galvanizing scientific ecosystem, whereas positioning Vietnam as an more and more vital vacation spot on the worldwide innovation map.
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