Future Forum Announced the Winners of 2021 Future Science Prize: Kwok-Yung Yuen, Joseph Sriyal Malik Peiris, Jie Zhang, Simon Sze – Yahoo Finance

Future Forum Announced the Winners of 2021 Future Science Prize: Kwok-Yung Yuen, Joseph Sriyal Malik Peiris, Jie Zhang, Simon Sze BEIJING, Sept. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Future Science Prize announced the winners of 2021 in Beijing on September 12th. Prof. Kwok-Yung Yuen and Prof. Joseph Sriyal Malik Peiris won the Prize in life sciences for their discoveries of SARS-CoV-1 as the causative agent for the global SARS outbreak in 2003 and its zoonotic origin, with impact on combating Covid-19 and emerging infectious diseases. Prof. Jie Zhang won the Future Science Prize in physical sciences for his development of laser-based fast…