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class="structure-sub-menu structure-sub-menu-n "> <li class="as-btn" data-src="as-wrap"><h6 class="d-tiny sohne" >Astronomy</h6></li> <li class="lsm-btn" data-src="lsm-wrap"><h6 class="d-tiny sohne" >Life Science & Medicine</h6></li> <li class="ms-btn" data-src="ms-wrap"><h6 class="d-tiny sohne" >Mathematical Sciences</h6></li> </ul> <ul class="structure-sub-menu structure-sub-menu-p "> <li class="asp-btn" data-src="asp-wrap"><h6 class="d-tiny sohne" >Astronomy</h6></li> <li class="lsmp-btn" data-src="lsmp-wrap"><h6 class="d-tiny sohne" >Life Science & Medicine</h6></li> <li class="msp-btn" data-src="msp-wrap"><h6 class="d-tiny sohne" >Mathematical Sciences</h6></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="structure-wrap "> <div class="structure-block-wrap tspf-wrap active"> <div class="row margin-120-bottom "> <div class="col-sm-4"> <h4 class="margin-20-bottom m-margin-28-bottom"> The Shaw Prize Foundation</h4> </div> <div class="col-sm-7 offset-sm-1"> <p class=" d-body">The Shaw Prize Foundation Limited was incorporated in November 2002 with the object of awarding prizes to those persons who have achieved distinguished contributions in academic and scientific research or applications or have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind.<br /> <br /> It was granted charitable status by the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department in May 2003.</p> </div> </div> <div class="structure-block"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="info-break-line margin-60-bottom"></div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <h4 class="margin-80-bottom"> Board of Directors</h4> </div> </div> <div class="row "> <div class="col-sm-12"> <ul class="previous-l-list "> <li class=" margin-88-bottom " data-des="" data-content=""> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #C39F5B url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Raymond-Chan.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"> </div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Chair</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Dr Chan Wai Man, Raymond</h6> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="row "> <div class="col-sm-12"> <ul class="previous-l-list "> <li class=" margin-88-bottom " data-des="" data-content=""> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #C39F5B url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Meage-Choy.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"> </div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Ms Meage Choy</h6> </li> <li class=" margin-88-bottom " data-des="" data-content=""> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #C39F5B url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Jenny-Li.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"> </div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Ms Jenny Li</h6> </li> <li class=" margin-88-bottom " data-des="" data-content=""> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #C39F5B url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Jerry.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"> </div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Mr Jerry Rajakulendran</h6> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="structure-block-wrap council-wrap "> <div class="row margin-120-bottom "> <div class="col-sm-4"> <h4 class="margin-20-bottom m-margin-28-bottom">Council</h4> </div> <div class="col-sm-7 offset-sm-1"> <p class=" d-body">The Shaw Prize Council is an administrative body that serves as the cornerstone of effective management and smooth operation of the Prize, assisted by the Shaw Prize Secretariat. As the official representative of the Prize, the Council assumes the responsibility of announcing the recipients of the awards at the annual press conference, and ensures the seamless execution of the Prize’s key events. It also provides procedural guidelines on the selection process of the awardees. In addition to its operational responsibilities, the Council plays a significant role in shaping the strategic development of the Prize, providing guidance to maintains its alignment with its founding principles and vision. </p> </div> </div> <div class="structure-block"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="info-break-line margin-60-bottom"></div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <h4 class="margin-80-bottom">Founding Members</h4> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <ul class="previous-l-list "> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Distinguished Professor-at-large, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and<br /> Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing" data-content="Professor Chen-Ning Yang, an eminent physicist, was Albert Einstein Professor of Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook until his retirement in 1999. He has been Distinguished Professor-at-large at The Chinese University of Hong Kong since 1986, and Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing since 1998.<br /> <br /> Professor Yang has received many awards: Nobel Prize in Physics (1957), Rumford Prize (1980), US National Medal of Science (1986), Benjamin Franklin Medal (1993), Bower Award (1994) and King Faisal Prize (2001). He is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, the US Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of London, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Japan Academy.<br /> <br /> Since receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1948, he has made great impacts in both abstract theory and phenomenological analysis in modern physics."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #C39F5B url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Prof-Yang.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"> </div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title"></h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Chen-Ning Yang</h6> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <ul class="previous-l-list "> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="" data-content="Mrs Mona Shaw, wife of the founder, the late Sir Run Run Shaw, was Chairperson of The Sir Run Run Shaw Charitable Trust, The Shaw Foundation Hong Kong Limited and The Shaw Prize Foundation. A native of Shanghai, China, she was an established figure in the Hong Kong media and entertainment industry and Chairperson of the Shaw Group of Companies. She was for many years Deputy Chairperson and Managing Director of Television Broadcasts Limited, until she became a Non-Executive Director.<br /> <br /> Mrs Shaw passed away peacefully at Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital on 22 November 2017 at the age of 83."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #C39F5B url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Mrs-Mona-Shaw.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"> </div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title"></h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Mrs Mona Shaw (1934–2017)</h6> </li> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="" data-content="Professor Lin Ma was the first Chair and Senior Advisor of the Board of Trustees of Shaw College and Emeritus Chair Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Prof Ma joined the Chemistry Department of CUHK in 1964, rising to Senior Lecturer in 1965 and Reader in 1972. He was appointed Founding Chair in Biochemistry in 1973. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University from 1978 to 1987.<br /> <br /> Professor Ma was a distinguished biochemist and published widely on protein chemistry. He received honours from Great Britain, Japan and Germany, and honorary degrees from universities in China including Hong Kong and Macau, and from universities abroad. He was the Convenor of two sub-groups of the Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee: Education, Science and Arts, and Hong Kong Flag and Emblem.<br /> <br /> Professor Ma passed away peacefully at Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong on 16 October 2017, aged 93."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #C39F5B url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Prof-Ma-Lin.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"> </div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title"></h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Lin Ma (1924–2017)</h6> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="info-break-line margin-60-bottom"></div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <h4 class="margin-80-bottom">Council</h4> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <ul class="previous-l-list "> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Emeritus Professor of Physics<br /> The Chinese University of Hong Kong<br /> Hong Kong" data-content="Professor Kenneth Young is a theoretical physicist, and is Emeritus Professor of Physics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He pursued studies at the California Institute of Technology, USA, 1965–1972, and obtained a BS in Physics (1969) and a PhD in Physics and Mathematics (1972). He joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1973, where he has held the position of Chair, Department of Physics and later Dean, Faculty of Science, Dean of the Graduate School and Pro-Vice-Chancellor. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1999 and a Member of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2004. He was also a Member of the University Grants Committee, HKSAR and Chair of its Research Grants Council. He served as Secretary and then Vice-President of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies. He is a Director of the Council of the Hong Kong Laureate Forum. His research interests include elementary particles, field theory, high energy phenomenology, dissipative systems and especially their eigenfunction representation and application to optics, gravitational waves and other open systems."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #C39F5B url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Kenneth-Young.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"> </div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Chair</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Kenneth Young</h6> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <ul class="previous-l-list "> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Member of Board of Advisors, Sir Run Run Shaw Charitable Trust<br /> Chair of The Shaw Foundation Hong Kong<br /> Chair of The Shaw Prize Foundation and<br /> Managing Director of the Shaw Group of Companies" data-content="Dr Raymond Chan joined the Shaw Group in January 1994 and in December 2017, assumed the role of Managing Director of the Shaw Group of Companies, totalling fifty-four and situated locally and overseas. He was at the same time appointed Chair of the Shaw Foundation and the Shaw Prize Foundation. Since 2012, he has been a Member on the Board of Advisors of Sir Run Run Shaw Charitable Trust.<br /> <br /> Born and educated in Hong Kong, he continued his studies in the United Kingdom gaining BA (Hons) and B Arch (Hons) and became a Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and Hong Kong Institute of Architects. He has received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Liverpool, UK, in 2022. He is also a registered architect under the Architect Registration Board in both UK and Hong Kong.<br /> <br /> He is a Member of the Board of Trustees of Shaw College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and an Honorary Trustee of Peking University and the Honorary Chair of Board of Directors of Nanjing Medical University, People's Republic of China. Dr Chan is also a Director of the Council of the Hong Kong Laureate Forum. From 2003 to 2016 he served as a Member of the Governing Committee of Tseung Kwan O Hospital. In June and October 2021, he was awarded Honorary Fellowships by The Chinese University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology respectively."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #C39F5B url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Raymond-Chan.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"> </div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Dr Chan Wai Man, Raymond</h6> </li> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Pro-Vice-Chancellor / Vice President<br /> Li Ka Shing Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine <br /> Director of the Institute for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine<br /> The Chinese University of Hong Kong<br /> Hong Kong" data-content="Professor Wai-Yee Chan is Pro-Vice-Chancellor/Vice-President, Li Ka Shing Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Director of the Institute for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong. Professor Chan obtained his BSc (First Class Honours) in Chemistry from CUHK in 1974 and PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA in 1977. Prior to joining CUHK in June of 2009, he was Professor of Pediatrics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, and Head and Principal Investigator, Section on Developmental Genomics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. <br /> <br /> His expertise is in developmental genomics and molecular genetics of endocrine disorders. He received the 1988 Merrick Award for Outstanding Biomedical Research and the 2008 Presidential Award from the Association of Chinese Geneticists in America. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of international scientific journals and on review panels of regional and international research funding agencies."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #C39F5B url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Wai-Yee-Chan.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"> </div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Wai-Yee Chan</h6> </li> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Director of Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering<br /> Research Professor of Electronic Engineering<br /> The Chinese University of Hong Kong<br /> Hong Kong" data-content="Professor Pak-Chung Ching is Director of Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering and Research Professor of Electronic Engineering of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Bachelor in Engineering (First Class Honours) and PhD from the University of Liverpool, UK, in 1977 and 1981 respectively. Professor Ching is a Fellow of IEEE, IET, HKIE and HKAES. He was Chair of the Veterinary Surgeons Board of Hong Kong (2012-2023) and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Nano and Advanced Materials Institute (2018-2023). Professor Ching was awarded the IEEE Third Millennium Award (2000) and the Bronze Bauhinia Star (2010) and Silver Bauhinia Star (2017) of the HKSAR; he was admitted to the HKIE Hall of Fame (2010). His research interests include adaptive digital signal processing, time delay estimation and target localization, blind signal estimation and separation, automatic speech recognition, speaker identification/verification and speech synthesis, and advanced signal processing techniques for wireless communications."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #C39F5B url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Pak-Chung-CHING.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"> </div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Pak-Chung Ching</h6> </li> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Director<br /> Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics<br /> Germany" data-content="Professor Reinhard Genzel, Born in 1952 in Germany, is the Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany, Honorary Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich since 1988 and Professor in the Graduate School, UC Berkeley since 2017.<br /> <br /> He received his PhD from the University of Bonn in 1978. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1978–1980), an Associate Professor of Physics and Associate Research Astronomer at Space Sciences Laboratory (1981–1985) and a Full Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley (1985–1986).<br /> <br /> Professor Genzel has received many awards, including Newton Lacy Pierce Prize (1986), Leibniz Prize (1990), Janssen Prize (2000), Balzan Prize (2003), Petrie Prize (2005), the Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2008), Jansky Prize (2010), Karl Schwarzschild Medal (2011), Crafoord Prize in Astronomy (2012) and Tycho Brahe Prize (2012), Herschel Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2014), Great Cross of Merit (with Star) of Germany (2014), Honorary Doctorate (Dr.h.c.), Paris Observatory OPSPM (2014), Harvey Prize in Science and Technology, Technion Israel Institute of Technology (2014) and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (2021). In 2020, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Andrea Ghez, for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.<br /> <br /> He is a Member the European Academy of Sciences, the German Academy of Natural Sciences Leopoldina, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Order Pour Le Merite for Science and Arts of the Republic of Germany. He is also a Foreign Member/Foreign Corresponding Member/Associate of the Academy of Sciences of France, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Spanish Academy, and the Royal Society of London."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #C39F5B url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Professor-Reinhard-GENZEL.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"> </div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Reinhard Genzel</h6> </li> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Professor Emeritus, Medicine<br /> School of Medicine<br /> University of California, San Francisco<br /> USA" data-content="Professor Yuet-Wai Kan is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. He is a world-leading expert on the use of gene and cell therapy to treat sickle cell anemia and thalassemia. Professor Kan was born in Hong Kong, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong and trained at Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, before going to the United States for further studies.<br /> <br /> Professor Kan's contributions to DNA diagnosis and his discovery of human DNA polymorphism have found wide applications in genetics and human diseases. For his work, he has received many national and international awards including the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award, the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Shaw Prize. He is the first Chinese elected to the Royal Society, London, and is a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, Academia Sinica, the Third World Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has received honorary degrees from the University of Caglieri, Italy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong and The Open University of Hong Kong."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #C39F5B url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Yuet-Wai-Kan.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"> </div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Yuet-Wai Kan</h6> </li> <li class='clearfix'></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="structure-block-wrap boa-wrap "> <div class="row margin-120-bottom "> <div class="col-sm-4"> <h4 class="margin-20-bottom m-margin-28-bottom">Board of Adjudicators</h4> </div> <div class="col-sm-7 offset-sm-1"> <p class=" d-body">The Board of Adjudicators oversees the selection process of the Shaw Prize awardees. Its responsibilities include deciding on the awardees of the prizes, formulating the regulations and procedures for nomination and adjudication, and setting up Selection Committees while monitoring their operation. Furthermore, it checks, approves or rules on the awardee list submitted by the committees and requests the Council to confirm the list of awardees of the prizes. The Board operates independently from the Council. </p> </div> </div> <div class="structure-block"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="info-break-line margin-60-bottom"></div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <h4 class="margin-80-bottom">Board of Adjudicators</h4> </div> </div> <div class="row "> <div class="col-sm-12"> <ul class="previous-l-list "> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Director<br /> Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics<br /> Germany" data-content="Professor Reinhard Genzel, Born in 1952 in Germany, is the Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany, Honorary Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich since 1988 and Professor in the Graduate School, UC Berkeley since 2017.<br /> <br /> He received his PhD from the University of Bonn in 1978. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1978–1980), an Associate Professor of Physics and Associate Research Astronomer at Space Sciences Laboratory (1981–1985) and a Full Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley (1985–1986).<br /> <br /> Professor Genzel has received many awards, including Newton Lacy Pierce Prize (1986), Leibniz Prize (1990), Janssen Prize (2000), Balzan Prize (2003), Petrie Prize (2005), the Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2008), Jansky Prize (2010), Karl Schwarzschild Medal (2011), Crafoord Prize in Astronomy (2012) and Tycho Brahe Prize (2012), Herschel Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2014), Great Cross of Merit (with Star) of Germany (2014), Honorary Doctorate (Dr.h.c.), Paris Observatory OPSPM (2014), Harvey Prize in Science and Technology, Technion Israel Institute of Technology (2014) and the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (2021). In 2020, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Andrea Ghez, for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.<br /> <br /> He is a Member the European Academy of Sciences, the German Academy of Natural Sciences Leopoldina, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Order Pour Le Merite for Science and Arts of the Republic of Germany. He is also a Foreign Member/Foreign Corresponding Member/Associate of the Academy of Sciences of France, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Spanish Academy, and the Royal Society of London. "> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #C39F5B url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Professor-Reinhard-GENZEL.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"> </div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Chair</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Reinhard Genzel</h6> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="row "> <div class="col-sm-12"> <ul class="previous-l-list "> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Emeritus Professor of Physics<br /> The Chinese University of Hong Kong<br /> Hong Kong" data-content="Professor Kenneth Young is a theoretical physicist, and is Emeritus Professor of Physics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He pursued studies at the California Institute of Technology, USA, 1965–1972, and obtained a BS in Physics (1969) and a PhD in Physics and Mathematics (1972). He joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1973, where he has held the position of Chair, Department of Physics and later Dean, Faculty of Science, Dean of the Graduate School and Pro-Vice-Chancellor. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1999 and a Member of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2004. He was also a Member of the University Grants Committee, HKSAR and Chair of its Research Grants Council. He served as Secretary and then Vice-President of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies. He is a Director of the Council of the Hong Kong Laureate Forum. His research interests include elementary particles, field theory, high energy phenomenology, dissipative systems and especially their eigenfunction representation and application to optics, gravitational waves and other open systems."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #C39F5B url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Kenneth-Young.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"> </div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Vice Chair</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Kenneth Young</h6> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="row "> <div class="col-sm-12"> <ul class="previous-l-list "> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Emeritus Professor<br /> Department of Astrophysical Sciences<br /> Princeton University and Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton<br /> USA" data-content="Professor Scott D Tremaine received his undergraduate degree from McMaster University in Canada and his PhD in Physics from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at MIT, the University of Toronto, and Princeton University.<br /> <br /> At the University of Toronto he was the first Director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, from 1985 to 1996, and at the Princeton University he chaired the Department of Astrophysical Sciences from 1998 to 2006. He was the Richard Black Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 2007 to 2020 and Professor at the University of Toronto. He is currently an Emeritus Professor at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.<br /> <br /> He is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and of Canada and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. His awards include the Dannie Heinemann Prize for Astrophysics, the Tomalla Foundation Prize for Gravity Research, the Dirk Brouwer Award, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society, and honorary doctorates from McMaster, Toronto, and St Mary’s University.<br /> <br /> His research has been focused on the dynamics of astrophysical systems, including planet formation and evolution, planetary rings, comets, supermassive black holes, star clusters, galaxies, and galaxy systems. "> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #C39F5B url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Professor-Scott-D-TREMAINE.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"> </div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Scott D Tremaine</h6> </li> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Squibb Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology<br /> Princeton University<br /> USA" data-content="Professor Bonnie L Bassler is a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the Squibb Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms bacteria use for intercellular communication. This process is called quorum sensing. Professor Bassler’s discoveries are paving the way to the development of novel therapies for combating bacteria by disrupting quorum-sensing-mediated communication. She received the Shaw Prize in Life Sciences and Medicine in 2015. Professor Bassler is a Member of the Royal Society and the American Philosophical Society. She served on the National Science Board from 2010–2016 and was nominated to that position by President Barack Obama. The Board oversees the NSF and prioritizes the nation’s research and educational activities in science, math and engineering."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #C39F5B url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Bonnie-Bassler.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"> </div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Bonnie L Bassler</h6> </li> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Einstein Professor, Emeritus<br /> Freie Universität Berlin<br /> Germany" data-content="Professor Hélène Esnault is a French and German mathematician working in Algebraic-Arithmetic Geometry. She studied at the École Normale Supérieure, got a PhD and a Doctorat d’État from the University Paris VII, and a Habilitation from the University of Bonn. She held a Chair at the University of Essen 1990–2012, then became an Einstein Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 2012–2019.<br /> <br /> She received the Paul Doisteau–Emile Blutet Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Paris (2001), the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Council DFG (2003), an ERC Advanced Grant (2009), a Chaire d’Excellence de la Fondation Mathématique de Paris (2011), the Cantor Medal (2019), honorary Doctorate degrees of the Vietnam Academy of Sciences and Technology (2009) and of the University of Rennes (2013). She was an invited speaker at the ICM Beijing 2002 and the ECM Krakow 2012. She was a Chern Professor at MSRI (Berkeley) 2019, a guest Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS, Princeton) 2019/20. She is currently an Associate Professor at Harward University and Part Time Professor at the University of Copenhagen.<br /> <br /> She is a Member of the Academies of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2005, of the German National Academy (Leopoldina) since 2008, of Berlin–Brandenburg since 2010, of the European Academy (Academia Europaea) since 2014."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #C39F5B url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Helene-ESNAULT.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"> </div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Hélène Esnault</h6> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="structure-block-wrap as-wrap "> <div class="row margin-120-bottom "> <div class="col-sm-4"> <h4 class="margin-20-bottom m-margin-28-bottom">Selection Committee<br /> 2024-2025</h4> </div> <div class="col-sm-7 offset-sm-1"> <p class=" d-body"></p> </div> </div> <div class="row margin-20-bottom "> <div class="col-sm-12"> <a href="https://www.shawprize.org/about/archive-of-past-selection-committees/?committees-categories=astronomy"><h6 class=" d-tiny apsc-btn" style="float:right;">Archive of Past Selection Committees</h6></a> </div> </div> <div class="structure-block"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="info-break-line margin-60-bottom"></div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <h4 class="margin-80-bottom">Astronomy</h4> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <ul class="previous-l-list "> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Emeritus Professor<br /> Department of Astrophysical Sciences<br /> Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton<br /> USA" data-content="Professor Scott D Tremaine received his undergraduate degree from McMaster University in Canada and his PhD in Physics from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at MIT, the University of Toronto, and Princeton University.<br /> <br /> At the University of Toronto he was the first Director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, from 1985 to 1996, and at the Princeton University he chaired the Department of Astrophysical Sciences from 1998 to 2006. He was the Richard Black Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 2007 to 2020 and Professor at the University of Toronto. He is currently an Emeritus Professor at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.<br /> <br /> He is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and of Canada and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. His awards include the Dannie Heinemann Prize for Astrophysics, the Tomalla Foundation Prize for Gravity Research, the Dirk Brouwer Award, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society, and honorary doctorates from McMaster, Toronto, Waterloo, and St Mary’s University.<br /> <br /> His research has been focused on the dynamics of astrophysical systems, including planet formation and evolution, planetary rings, comets, supermassive black holes, star clusters, galaxies, and galaxy systems. "> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #2A3C80 url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Professor-Scott-D-TREMAINE.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"></div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Chair</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Scott Tremaine</h6> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <ul class="previous-l-list "> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Luke Blossom Professor, School of Humanities and Sciences and <br /> Professor of Physics and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics<br /> Stanford University<br /> USA" data-content="Professor Roger Blandford took his BA, MA and PhD degrees at Cambridge University. Following postdoctoral research at Cambridge, Princeton and Berkeley he took up a faculty position at Caltech in 1976 becoming the Tolman Professor in 1989. In 2003, he become the first Director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford and is currently the Director of the Simons Collaboration on Extreme Electrodynamics of Compact Sources. With Kip Thorne he co-authored Modern Classical Physics. His research interests include compact sources, cosmic rays, cosmology, and astrobiology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences. He chaired the 2010 Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He was awarded the 1998 AAS Heineman Prize, the 2013 RAS Gold Medal, the 2016 Crafoord Prize for Astronomy and the 2020 Shaw Prize for Astronomy."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #2A3C80 url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SP20_AN_Roger-Blandford_revised.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"></div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Roger Blandford</h6> </li> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Professor<br /> Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon, <br /> Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France and<br /> Professor of Astronomy, University of Exeter, UK" data-content="Professor Gilles Chabrier graduated in theoretical physics. He did his PhD at the International Center for Theoretical Physics, in Trieste, Italy and in Paris. He switched to astrophysics as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rochester (USA). He is the Foundator and the Head of the astrophysics group of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France) and a professor at the University of Exeter (UK).<br /> <br /> Professor Chabrier received several national and international awards, Johann Wempe Prize (2004), Silver Medal of CNRS (2006), Grand Prix Jean Ricard of the French Physical Society (2010), Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2011), Grand Prix Ampère of the Académie des Sciences (2014), Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics (IOP) (2019) and Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2024). He has been elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP).<br /> <br /> His research ranges from dense matter physics to stellar and planetary physics, star formation and galactic astronomy."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #2A3C80 url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/SP22-23_AN_Prof-Gilles-Chabrier.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"></div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Gilles Chabrier</h6> </li> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Professor Emerita, Department of Astronomy<br /> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br /> USA" data-content="Professor You-Hua Chu received her PhD in Astronomy from the University of California at Berkeley, USA. She was a Professor in the Astronomy Department of the University of Illinois, USA, and was the Department Chair in 2005-2011. In 2014, she moved to Taiwan and was the Director of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA) until 2020. She is currently a Chair Research Fellow of the National Sun Yat-sen University, a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at ASIAA and a Professor Emerita of the University of Illinois.<br /> <br /> She was the President of IAU Division VI (2009–2012), the President of the Astronomical Society of the Republic of China (ASROC, 2014–2020). She is a Fellow of the American Astronomical Society, and a Fellow of the Physical Society of Taiwan. She received the Heaven Quest Award from the ASROC in 2021, NAOJ Director General's Award in Engineering and Development Category in 2021, and R M Petrie Prize from the Canadian Astronomical Society in 2023.<br /> <br /> Her research is in multi-wavelength observations of stellar energy feedback and interactions with the interstellar medium, using the Magellanic Clouds as an astrophysical laboratory."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #2A3C80 url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SP23-24_AN_Prof-You-Hua-Chu.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"></div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor You-Hua Chu</h6> </li> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Director, Department of Physical Cosmology<br /> Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics<br /> Germany" data-content="Professor Eiichiro Komatsu uses theoretical physics and observational data to study the origin, evolution, and constituents of our Universe. He has been Director of the Department of Physical Cosmology at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, since 2012. Prior to this he was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and a professor in the Department of Astronomy and Director of Texas Cosmology Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He obtained his PhD from Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, in 2001.<br /> <br /> He is a Fellow of American Physical Society. He received awards for his work including Alfred P Sloan Fellow, the Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Prize, the Gruber Cosmology Prize, the Lancelot M Berkeley Prize of the American Astronomical Society, the Chushiro Hayashi Prize of the Astronomical Society of Japan, the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the Inoue Prize for Science and the Nishina Memorial Prize.<br /> <br /> His scientific achievements include the most stringent test of the physics of the very early Universe known as “cosmic inflation”, innovative explorations of dark matter, dark energy and neutrinos in cosmology, and astrophysics of galaxy clusters."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #2A3C80 url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/SP22-23_AN_Prof-Eiichiro-Komatsu.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"></div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Eiichiro Komatsu</h6> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="structure-block-wrap lsm-wrap "> <div class="row margin-120-bottom "> <div class="col-sm-4"> <h4 class="margin-20-bottom m-margin-28-bottom">Selection Committee<br /> 2024-2025</h4> </div> <div class="col-sm-7 offset-sm-1"> <p class=" d-body"></p> </div> </div> <div class="row margin-20-bottom "> <div class="col-sm-12"> <a href="https://www.shawprize.org/about/archive-of-past-selection-committees/?committees-categories=life-science-and-medicine"><h6 class=" d-tiny apsc-btn" style="float:right;">Archive of Past Selection Committees</h6></a> </div> </div> <div class="structure-block"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="info-break-line margin-60-bottom"></div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <h4 class="margin-80-bottom">Life Science & Medicine</h4> </div> </div> <div class="row margin-40-bottom"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <ul class="previous-l-list "> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Squibb Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology<br /> Princeton University<br /> USA" data-content="Professor Bonnie L Bassler is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the Squibb Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. Her research focuses on the molecular mechanisms bacteria use for intercellular communication. This process is called quorum sensing. Professor Bassler’s discoveries are paving the way to the development of novel therapies for combating bacteria by disrupting quorum-sensing-mediated communication. She received the Shaw Prize in Life Sciences and Medicine in 2015. Professor Bassler is a member of the Royal Society and the American Philosophical Society. She served on the National Science Board from 2010–2016 and was nominated to that position by President Barack Obama. The Board oversees the National Science Foundation and prioritizes the nation’s research and educational activities in science, math and engineering."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #2E5F4D url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Bonnie-Bassler.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"></div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Chair</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Bonnie L Bassler </h6> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="row margin-40-bottom"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <ul class="previous-l-list "> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Professor<br /> Biozentrum, University of Basel<br /> Switzerland" data-content="Professor Michael N. Hall received his PhD from Harvard University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Pasteur Institute (France) and the University of California, San Francisco. He joined the Biozentrum of the University of Basel (Switzerland) in 1987 where he is currently Professor and former Chair of Biochemistry. Hall is a pioneer in the fields of TOR signaling and cell growth control. In 1991, Hall and colleagues discovered TOR (Target of Rapamycin) and subsequently elucidated its role as a central controller of cell growth and metabolism. The discovery of TOR led to a fundamental change in how one thinks of cell growth. It is not a spontaneous process that just happens when building blocks (nutrients) are available, but rather a highly regulated, plastic process controlled by TOR-dependent signaling pathways. As a central controller of cell growth and metabolism, TOR plays a key role in development, aging, and disease. Hall is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and has received numerous awards, including the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2014) and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2017)."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #2E5F4D url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/SP22-23_LN_Prof-Michael-N-Hall.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"></div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Michael N Hall</h6> </li> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Professor, Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics<br /> University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center<br /> USA<br /> " data-content="Professor Helen H Hobbs is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW). After graduating from Stanford University and Case Western Reserve Medical School, she trained in internal medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian and UTSW. Together with Jonathan Cohen, she has used human genetics to identify sequence variations of large effect size that alter plasma levels of LDL-cholesterol and triglycerides. She also discovered the two most impactful genetic risk factors for steatotic liver disease. Gene identification is the starting point for studies that have elucidated pathways and processes altered by the defective genes she has identified. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences, and is recipient of The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2016) and the Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine (2018)."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #2E5F4D url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/LN-2024-2025_Helen-Hobbs.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"></div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Helen Hobbs</h6> </li> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Chair and Professor<br /> Department of Physiology, School of Medicine<br /> University of California San Francisco<br /> USA" data-content="David Julius received his undergraduate degree from MIT, where he worked with Alexander Rich studying mechanisms of tRNA aminoacylation. He then moved to UC Berkeley for graduate studies with Jeremy Thorner and Randy Schekman, elucidating mechanisms of peptide hormone processing and secretion, followed by postdoctoral studies with Richard Axel at Columbia University, where he identified genes encoding members of the serotonin receptor family. David then joined the faculty at UC San Francisco, where his research is focused on understanding molecular mechanisms of pain and sensory adaptation.<br /> <br /> David is a member of the US National Academies of Science and Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received numerous awards, including the Shaw Prize in Life Sciences and Medicine, the Canada Gairdner International Award, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #2E5F4D url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/AN-2024-2024_David-Julius.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"></div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name margin-10-bottom">Professor David Julius</h6> <h6 class="d-tiny sohne ">©University of California San Francisco</h6> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="row margin-40-bottom"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <ul class="previous-l-list "> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Vice-Chancellor and President Designate<br /> Associate Dean, Faculty of Medicine<br /> Chairman, Department of Chemical Pathology and<br /> Li Ka Shing Professor of Medicine <br /> The Chinese University of Hong Kong<br /> Hong Kong" data-content="Professor Dennis Lo is the Vice-Chancellor and President Designate and the Li Ka Shing Professor of Medicine of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and he is also the President of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences. His research interests focus on the biology and diagnostic applications of cell-free nucleic acids in plasma. In particular, he discovered the presence of cell-free fetal DNA in maternal plasma in 1997 and has since then been pioneering non-invasive prenatal diagnosis using this technology. This technology has been adopted globally and has created a paradigm in prenatal medicine. He has also made many innovations using circulating nucleic acids for cancer detection, including the screening of early stage nasopharyngeal cancer.<br /> <br /> In recognition of his research, Professor Lo has been elected as Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Founding Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society and Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. Professor Lo has won numerous awards, including the 2014 King Faisal International Prize in Medicine, the 2016 Future Science Prize in Life Science, the 2019 Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award, the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the 2021 Royal Medal, the 2021 ESHG Mendel Award, the 2022 ISPD Pioneer Award, the 2022 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, the 2023 inaugural Tengchong Science Prize and the 2024 Jiménez Díaz Lecture Award."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #2E5F4D url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SP23-24_LN_Prof-Dennis-YM-Lo.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"></div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Dennis YM Lo</h6> </li> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry<br /> School of Medicine<br /> Yale University<br /> USA" data-content="Professor Steitz earned her BS in chemistry from Antioch College in 1963. Significant findings from her work emerged as early as 1967, when her Harvard PhD thesis with Jim Watson examined the test-tube assembly of a ribonucleic acid (RNA) bacteriophage (antibacterial virus) known as R17.<br /> <br /> Professor Steitz spent the next three years in postdoctoral studies at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, where she used early methods for determining the biochemical sequence of RNA to study how ribosomes know where to initiate protein synthesis on bacterial mRNAs. In 1970, she was appointed assistant professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale, becoming full professor in 1978. At Yale, she established a laboratory dedicated to the study of RNA structure and function. In 1979, Steitz and her colleagues described a group of cellular particles called small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs), a breakthrough in understanding how RNA is spliced. Subsequently, her laboratory has defined the structures and functions of other noncoding RNPs, such as those that guide the modification of ribosomal RNAs, microRNAs and several produced by transforming herpesviruses. <br /> <br /> Professor Steitz, a former investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, National Academy of Sciences, and Institute of Medicine. Her many honors include the US Steel Foundation Award in Molecular Biology (1982); National Medal of Science (1986); FASEB Excellence in Science Award (2003); RNA Society Lifetime Achievement Award (2004); Gairdner Foundation International Award (2006); Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research (2008) [shared with Elizabeth Blackburn]; Pearl Meister Greengard Prize (2012); La grande médaille 2013 de l'Académie des sciences, Insititut de France; Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London (2014); Herbert Tabor Award, American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2015); Biopolymers Murray Goodman Memorial Prize, American Chemical Society (2015); William Clyde DeVane Award for Teaching Excellence, Yale University (2016); Jonathan Kraft Prize for Excellence in Cancer Research (2016); ASCB Inaugural Fellow (2016); Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation (2018); and the Wolf Prize in Medicine (2021, shared with Lynne Maquat and Adrian Krainer); James Watson Award, Hope Funds for Cancer Research (2021); Memorial Sloan Kettering Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Biomedical Research (2021); Warren Alpert Foundation Prize (2021). Dr Steitz has been awarded 20 honorary degrees."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #2E5F4D url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/SP22-23_LN_Prof-Joan-A-Steitz.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"></div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Joan A Steitz</h6> </li> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Professor of Regenerative Medicine<br /> Director, Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine<br /> King’s College London<br /> UK" data-content="Professor Fiona M Watt obtained her first degree from Cambridge University and her DPhil, in cell biology, from the University of Oxford. She was a postdoc at MIT, where she first began studying differentiation and tissue organisation in mammalian epidermis. She established her first research group at the Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology in London and then spent 20 years at the CRUK London Research Institute. She helped to establish the CRUK Cambridge Research Institute and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research and in 2012 she moved to King's College London to found the Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine. From 2018 to 2022 she is on secondment as Executive Chair of the UK Medical Research Council. She is currently EMBO Director.<br /> <br /> Professor Watt has received numerous awards and honours. She is a Fellow of the UK Royal Society and Academy of Medical Sciences, a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation and an international member of National Academy of Sciences. "> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #2E5F4D url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/LN-2024-2025_Fiona-Watt_Revised.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"></div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Fiona M Watt</h6> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="structure-block-wrap ms-wrap "> <div class="row margin-120-bottom "> <div class="col-sm-4"> <h4 class="margin-20-bottom m-margin-28-bottom">Selection Committee<br /> 2024-2025</h4> </div> <div class="col-sm-7 offset-sm-1"> <p class=" d-body"></p> </div> </div> <div class="row margin-20-bottom "> <div class="col-sm-12"> <a href="https://www.shawprize.org/about/archive-of-past-selection-committees/?committees-categories=mathematical-sciences"><h6 class=" d-tiny apsc-btn" style="float:right;">Archive of Past Selection Committees</h6></a> </div> </div> <div class="structure-block"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="info-break-line margin-60-bottom"></div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <h4 class="margin-80-bottom">Mathematical Sciences</h4> </div> </div> <div class="row margin-40-bottom"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <ul class="previous-l-list "> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Einstein Professor, Emeritus<br /> Freie Universität Berlin<br /> Germany" data-content="Professor Hélène Esnault is a French and German mathematician working in Algebraic-Arithmetic Geometry. She studied at the École Normale Supérieure, got a PhD and a Doctorat d’État from the University Paris VII, and a Habilitation from the University of Bonn. She held a Chair at the University of Essen 1990–2012, then became an Einstein Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 2012–2019.<br /> <br /> She received the Paul Doisteau–Emile Blutet Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Paris (2001), the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Council DFG (2003), an ERC Advanced Grant (2009), a Chaire d’Excellence de la Fondation Mathématique de Paris (2011), the Cantor Medal (2019), honorary Doctorate degrees of the Vietnam Academy of Sciences and Technology (2009) and of the University of Rennes (2013). She was an invited speaker at the ICM Beijing 2002 and the ECM Krakow 2012. She was a Chern Professor at MSRI (Berkeley) 2019, a guest Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS, Princeton) 2019/20. She is currently an Associate Professor at Harward University and Part Time Professor at the University of Copenhagen.<br /> <br /> She is a Member of the Academies of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2005, of the German National Academy (Leopoldina) since 2008, of Berlin–Brandenburg since 2010, of the European Academy (Academia Europaea) since 2014."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #802E3E url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Helene-ESNAULT.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"></div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Chair</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Hélène Esnault</h6> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="row margin-40-bottom"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <ul class="previous-l-list "> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor<br /> Department of Mathematics<br /> University of Chicago<br /> USA <br /> " data-content="Professor Carlos E Kenig is the Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. He obtained his PhD at Chicago in 1978. Kenig’s research interests are in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.<br /> <br /> Kenig was awarded the Salem Prize in 1984 and the Bocher Prize of the American Mathematical Society in 2008. Kenig received the Solomon Lefschetz medal of the Mathematics Council of the Americas in 2021. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1986 and 2002 and a plenary speaker in 2010. Kenig is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Mathematical Society. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the US. Kenig is a past vice-president of the AMS. He served as the President of the International Mathematical Union for the period 2019–2022."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #802E3E url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/MN-2024-2025_Carlos-Kenig.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"></div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Carlos Kenig</h6> </li> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Professor and Chair<br /> Department of Mathematics<br /> University of California Los Angeles<br /> USA" data-content="Professor Chandrashekhar Khare was born in Mumbai, and studied at Cambridge, Oxford and Caltech, where he obtained his PhD in 1995. He worked at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and the University of Utah and is now a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Khare’s research is in number theory, especially on the relation between modular forms and Galois representations that underpins Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem. In 2008, he and Jean-Pierre Winterberger made a remarkable breakthrough with their proof of a celebrated conjecture of J.P. Serre. Prof. Khare’s honors and awards include the Fermat Prize (2007), Infosys Prize (2010) and the Cole Prize (2011), and he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #802E3E url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/MN-2024-2025_Chandrashekhar-Khare.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"></div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Chandrashekhar Khare</h6> </li> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Professor, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences<br /> Kyoto University<br /> Japan<br /> " data-content="Professor Takuro Mochizuki obtained his Doctor of Science from Kyoto University in 1999. He started his career at Osaka City University and then taught at Kyoto University. Since 2012, he has been a full professor at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Kyoto University. He also studied at the Institute for Advanced Study (2001–2003), Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics (2005–2006), and IHES (2006–2007) as a visitor.<br /> <br /> He is working on complex differential geometry, algebraic geometry, and algebraic analysis. One of his main themes is pursuing equivalences between objects in algebraic geometry and differential geometry.<br /> <br /> Professor Mochizuki received various honors, including the Spring Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan (2006), the JSPS Prize (2010), the Japan Academy Medal (2010), the Japan Academy Prize (2011), the Osaka Science Prize (2012), the Asahi Prize (2020), the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2022), and the Frontiers of Science Awards (2024). He was a plenary speaker at the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #802E3E url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/MN-2024-2025_Takuro-Mochizuki.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"></div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Takuro Mochizuki </h6> </li> <li class="cpointer margin-88-bottom " data-des="Edmund and Peggy Tse Professor and<br /> Chair of Mathematics<br /> Department of Mathematics<br /> The University of Hong Kong<br /> Hong Kong" data-content="Professor Ngaiming Mok obtained his M.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University, and started his career at Princeton University. He then taught at Columbia University and Université de Paris-Sud (Orsay), and had been Full Professor at both universities, before taking up a Chaired Professorship at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 1994. Currently he is the Edmund and Peggy Tse Professor in Mathematics, Chair of Mathematics and Director of the Institute of Mathematical Research of HKU.<br /> <br /> Professor Mok is a world-renowned mathematician dedicated to solving analytic and geometric problems on the interface of complex analysis, differential geometry, algebraic geometry and number theory. He has served on the editorial board of Inventiones Mathematicae and on the Fields Medal Committee in the International Congress of Mathematicians.<br /> <br /> Professor Mok’s outstanding achievements have earned him many international honours including the Sloan Fellowship, the Presidential Young Investigator Award of the US, the Croucher Senior Fellowship Award of Hong Kong, the State Natural Science Award (Class II) of China and the Bergman Prize of the American Mathematical Society. He was elected Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015, and Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences in 2017. In 2022, Professor Mok was recipient of the Future Science Prize in Mathematics and Computer Science, and the Tan Kah Kee Science Award in Mathematics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences."> <div class="structure-member margin-24-bottom" style=" background: #802E3E url(https://www.shawprize.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/SP22-23_MN_Prof-Ngaiming-Mok.png) bottom center no-repeat;background-size:contain"></div> <h6 class="color-grey d-tiny sohne margin-10-bottom pl-title">Member</h6> <h6 class="d-body sohne pl-name ">Professor Ngaiming Mok</h6> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="structure-block-wrap asp-wrap "> <div class="row margin-120-bottom "> <div class="col-sm-4"> <h4 class="margin-20-bottom m-margin-28-bottom"></h4> </div> <div class="col-sm-7 offset-sm-1"> <p class=" d-body"></p> </div> </div> <div class="row margin-20-bottom "> <div class="col-sm-12"> <a 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