5th World Laureates Forum opens with the inaugural WLA Prize award ceremony

SHANGHAI,Nov. 9,2022 --The fifth World Laureates Forum,or WLA Forum,successfully held in Shanghai,featuring 60 top scientists worldwide,including 27 Nobel Prize laureates.

Two WLA Prize Laureates received medals at Inaugural WLA Prize Award Ceremony of the 5th World Laureates Forum on 6 November.

On the annual theme of the forum,"Science Forward: Create a Bright Future",Roger Kornberg,Chairman of the World Laureates Association (WLA) and laureateof the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2006,explained that the world is changingfast,and science can help us deal with the challenges in the future. Beforeits official opening,various meetings and events,including WLA Zero CarbonForum,WLA SHE Forum,the WLA Sci-T Conference,and the newly-launched WLALaboratories Forum,have been held since 29 October. (Follow WLA Forum atTwitter & Facebook @wlaforum)

Notably,the inaugural World Laureates Association Prize (WLA Prize) wasawarded to two scientists at the opening ceremony on 6 November. The 2022 WLAPrize in Computer Science or Mathematics was awarded to Michael I. Jordan,Professor,Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences &Department of Statistics,UC Berkeley,for his fundamental contributions to thefoundations of machine learning and its application. And the 2022 WLA Prize inLife Science or Medicine was awarded to German biochemist Dirk Gorlich,Scientific member and Director,Max Planck Institute for MultidisciplinarySciences,for his key discoveries elucidating the mechanism and selectivity ofprotein transport between the cytoplasm and nucleus.

Michael I. Jordan,2022 WLA Prize Laureate in Computer Science or Mathematics -"We have a tradition at Berkeley that when someone gets a prize,on the email,there's a congratulation from everybody going around all day long. So it's verynice you get 100 emails of congratulations."

Dirk Gorlich,2022 WLA Prize Laureate in Life Science or Medicine - "I feltsurprised and very happy. I felt extremely honored. I should also say oneshould not do science just in waiting for an award. Science itself is veryrewarding. It's a great privilege to do science."

The monetary award for each prize is 10 million yuan ($1.39 million). Moreinformation about the nomination of the WLA Prize in 2023 will be announced atthe official website www.wlaprize.org.

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