The presentation ceremony for the 2024 Tan Kah-kee Science Award and the Tan Kah-kee Young Scientist Award was held last Tuesday during the 21st General Assembly of Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing.

Gao Pu, a researcher at the Institute of Biophysics, CAS, and secretary-general of the Molecular Biophysics Academic Subgroup of the Biophysical Society of China (BSC), and Ge Liang, associate professor at Tsinghua University and a council member of the BSC Membrane Biology Academic Subgroup, were honored with the Young Scientist Award in life sciences.

The presentation ceremony for the 2024 Tan Kah-kee Science Award and the Tan Kah-kee Young Scientist Award is held in Beijing on June 25, 2024. [Photo/WeChat account: BSC]

Gao has made innovative achievements in the fundamental principles of immune responses to aberrant nucleic acids, as well as in the development of novel nucleic acid modification and cleavage tools, while Ge has elucidated the non-classical targeting pathways of important proteins and a novel protein aggregate autophagy degradation pathway.

The Tan Kah-kee Science Award, named after the renowned patriotic overseas Chinese leader Tan Kah-kee, was established in 1988 as the Tan Kah-kee Award. In 2003, with the approval of the State Council – China’s cabinet – the CAS and the Bank of China jointly inaugurated the Tan Kah-kee Science Award Foundation. The award aims to recognize significant, original scientific and technological achievements made recently in China.

The Tan Kah-kee Young Scientist Award was established in 2010, aiming to honor talented young scientists who have independently made major, original scientific and technological contributions in China.