
French and Chinese scientists celebrated for transforming a rare form of leukaemia from a deadly condition to a curable one
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The Shaw Prize is an international award recognizing significant breakthroughs in academic and scientific research. The 2026 laureates were recognized for their work in oncology.
The Chinese and French winners of the 2026 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine have highlighted the spirit of “borderless connections” and friendship behind their research – which turned a rare form of leukaemia from deadly to widely curable.
At an awards ceremony at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on Tuesday attended by Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu, the life scientists celebrated their breakthrough as an “East meets West” success story and called for collaboration to solve global issues.
Announced earlier this year, the winning team comprised French molecular biologist Anne Dejean, professor emerita at the Institut Pasteur, a biomedical research centre in Paris; French doctor and researcher Hugues de The, professor and chair of cellular and molecular oncology at the College de France and Hospital Saint Louis in Paris; and haematologist Zhu Chen, professor at Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.

Sir Michael Houghton, a Nobel laureate, has joined Hong Kong Baptist University to develop a hepatitis C vaccine, citing reduced research funding in the US and Europe as his primary motivation for the move.

The Tuotuohe Meteorological Station, located at the source of the Yangtze River at an altitude of 4,533 meters, celebrates its 70th anniversary. As the highest-altitude sounding meteorological station in China, the station has overcome extreme high-altitude environments for many years and continues to provide meteorological observation data to the world, providing basic support for plateau and global climate research.

Scientists announced updates on Nanzuo, an ancient capital in Gansu, China, focusing on a 5,000-year-old central palace that villagers deliberately buried.

China News Service reported that Wang Yuhua, China's first Tibetan doctorate in engineering who studied abroad, has been deeply engaged in the research of luminescent materials for thirty years. He started from a 20-square-meter hut and presided over the National 863 Project and other projects. He applied for more than 30 invention patents, promoted the development of new domestic light sources, and raised funds to establish scholarships and bursaries to support future generations.

The Taiwanese team won a total of 8 gold medals, 7 silver medals and 13 bronze medals at the "International Youth Invention Exhibition" (IEYI) held in Beijing. Among them, the "Smart Fire Escape Helmet" developed by Lin Chenghao of Weige Elementary School in Taichung, and the "Toibot" smart public toilet system developed by Zhang Tingyu and Li Yaoyu of Taipei Xing'an Elementary School were recognized with gold medals.

The archaeological report "Xianfeng Tangya" was recently published, making public for the first time the results of the investigation and excavation of the Tangya Tusi City ruins in Enshi, Hubei from 2011 to 2014. As a world cultural heritage, the site's layout and remains show the Ming Dynasty chieftains' absorption of Han culture and their affiliation with the central government.