Shaw Prize Award presentation ceremony held today

The Shaw Prize 2026 Award Presentation Ceremony was held earlier today.

The Life Science and Medicine award went to Chinese scholar Chen Zhu along with French counterparts Anne Dejean and Hugues de The, for making groundbreaking discoveries in the underlying cause of a fatal form of blood cancer.

While the Prize in Astronomy went to University of Tokyo Professor Nomoto Kenichi and Stanford Woosley, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for their studies of stellar explosions and the origin of the elements.

While Emmanuel Candes and Camillo De Lellis received the Prize in Mathematical Sciences.

The ceremony was held at the Convention and Exhibition Centre during which Chief Executive John Lee congratulated the laureates -- emphasising his administration's determination to prioritise the scientific fields.