Tang Prize

Tang Prize
Awarded for	Outstanding contributions in sustainable development, biopharmaceutical science, sinology, and rule of law
Country	Taiwan
Presented by	The Tang Prize Foundation
First awarded	2014
Official website	www.tang-prize.org/ENG/

The Tang Prize (Chinese: 唐獎) is a set of biennial international awards bestowed in a number of categories by panels of judges convened by Academia Sinica, Taiwan's top research institution. The Tang Prize was established by Taiwanese entrepreneur Samuel Yin in December 2012.

Award categories

The award categories of the Tang Prize include sustainable development, biopharmaceutical science, sinology, and rule of law.

Laureates

Tang Prize laureates receive NT$40 million (US$1.34 million) as well as a research grant of NT$10 million, for a total of NT$50 million (US$1.67 million).

Year	Field	Name	Nationality	Citation
2014	Rule of Law	Albie Sachs	South Africa	"for his many contributions to human rights and justice globally through an understanding of the rule of law in which the dignity of all persons is respected and the strengths and values of all communities are embraced, in particular through his efforts in the realization of the rule of law in a free and democratic South Africa, working as activist, lawyer, scholar, and framer of a new Constitution to heal the divisions of the past and to establishing a society that respects diversity and is based on democratic values, social justice and fundamental human rights."
	Sinology	Yu Ying-shih	United States	"for his mastery of and insight into Chinese intellectual, political, and cultural history with an emphasis on his profound research into the history of public intellectuals in China."
	Biopharmaceutical Science	James P. Allison	United States	"for the discoveries of CTLA-4 and PD-1 as immune inhibitory molecules that led to their applications in cancer immunotherapy."
		Tasuku Honjo	Japan
	Sustainable Development	Gro Harlem Brundtland	Norway	"for her innovation, leadership and implementation of sustainable development that laid out the scientific and technical challenges for the global community to achieve a better balance of economic development, environmental integrity, and social equality for the benefit of all humanity."

External links

• Official Website