Shaw Prize Awards Seven Scientists Honors in Astronomy, Life Science, and Mathematics

People's Daily reported that the 2026 Shaw Prize presentation ceremony took place on November 10 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, conferring honors across three categories upon seven scientists. The 2026 Shaw Prize in Astronomy was split equally between Ken'ichi Nomoto, a retired professor at the University of Tokyo and visiting senior scientist at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, and Stanford Woosley, an astronomy and astrophysics professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, recognizing their research on stellar explosions and the origin of elements. The Life Science and Medicine prize was shared equally by Anne Dejean, Hugues de Thé, and Chen Zhu for uncovering the molecular and cellular pathogenesis of acute promyelocytic leukemia and establishing a synergistic targeted therapy. The Mathematical Sciences award went equally to Emmanuel Candès and Camilo De Lellis for contributions applying profound mathematical analysis to solve critical problems in information theory, signal processing, statistics, geometric measure theory, and fluid dynamics.

The research and synergistic targeted therapy established by Anne Dejean, Hugues de Thé, and Chen Zhu transformed acute promyelocytic leukemia from one of the deadliest cancers into one of the cancers with the highest cure rates.