The application for the International Award of the 12th DBN Science & Technology Awards has been launched. For application, please download and fill out the application form（Click Download）, then send it to dbnsta@dbn.com.cn before September 31, 2021.
About the Award
In 1999, DBN Group set up the DBN Science & Technology Awards, with a free contribution of RMB2.2 million per session. These awards aim to reward worldwide science and technology personnel and organizations that have made outstanding contributions in the field of agricultural application research. It is an important move of the company in public welfare undertakings.
Purposes
Our purposes are to promote Agricultural Sci-Tech Innovation & Propelling Modern Agricultural Development. We aim to boost the enthusiasm and creativity of agricultural science and technology workers, accelerate growth and development of agricultural science and technology talents, promote transformation of agricultural scientific and technological achievements to real productivity, and facilitate agricultural science and technology innovation and progress.
Requirements
The DBN Science &Technology Awards are granted to recognize scientific research achievements with significant influence, as well as social and economic benefits or potential value, which have also promoted science and technology progress within the industry throughout the world in terms of crops, animal husbandry, veterinary medicine, plant protection, horticulture, agricultural resources utilization, aquatic products, agricultural engineering, agricultural informatization, and other fields. The International Award, with award of 200,000 RMB, could be share no more than two personals.
General Introduction
The DBN Science & Technology Awards Ceremony is held biennially, with eleven sessions has been organized so far. To date, previous sessions have received in total 2,804 application projects, handed out grants RMB38.91 million yuan, and rewarded 409 experts. Previous winners include highly prestigious academicians, vigorous young scientists, as well as representatives of high-end scientific and technological achievements and talents of the industry.
An innovation forum is also held during the event, at which agricultural experts gather from all over the world to exchange ideas, discuss issues related to agricultural biotechnology, and celebrate the joyous occasion.
LAUREATES
Dr. Roger Beachy, winner of the 7th DBN Science & Technology Awards Individual Achievement award, is the new Director of the National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA), part of the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. As founding president of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, he was responsible for setting the scientific mission of the Center. Roger is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Science Academy, among others, and a recipient of the prestigious Wolf Prize in Agriculture.
Don Grierson, winner of the 9th DBN Science & Technology Awards International award, graduated with a PhD degree in Plant Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1972. He was appointed as an assistant lecturer at Nottingham in 1971, and was a member of academic staff at University of Nottingham for over 40 years. He was the founding head of the School of Biosciences at the Sutton Bonington Campus in 2000.
Don Grierson was elected fellow of the Institute of Biology (now Society for Biology) in 1985, awarded a research medal by the Royal Agricultural Society of England for "outstanding research in agriculture" in 1990. In 2000, he was made an Honorary Doctor of Science, National Polytechnic, Toulouse, elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
Don is now an emeritus professor at Nottingham, and has a part-time position as Guang Biao professor at Zhejiang University, is also a visiting professor at Shanxi Agricultural University, China.
Sarah De Saeger, winner of the 9th DBN Science & Technology Awards International award, is a professor and director of the Laboratory of Food Analysis at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Ghent University in Belgium. Her specialism includes the development of new technologies for analysis (screening and confirmation) of mycotoxins in food, feed and biological samples. Current focus is on mycotoxin global surveys, unknown fungal metabolites, biomarkers of human exposure. She is coordinator of the Ghent University MYTOX platform (www.mytox.be). She established many international research collaborations mainly focusing on China, Russia and the African continent.
Trevor Charles is a winner of the 9th DBN Science & Technology Awards International award. He was born and raised in Vancouver and attended University of British Columbia, majoring in microbiology, then went on to obtain a Ph.D. degree in molecular biology at McMaster University, under the supervision of Dr. Turlough Finan. The subject of his thesis research was bacterial genetics of the interaction of agriculturally important symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria with crop plants. He then joined the research group of Dr. Eugene Nester at University of Washington, studying Agrobacterium and plant tumor formation. His first faculty position was at McGill University, and then he moved to the University of Waterloo after five years, where he has been since (almost 17 years).
Rod A. Wing is a winner of the 9th DBN Science & Technology Awards International award. AXA Chair for Genome Biology & Evolutionary Genomics, International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, Philippines. Honors Professor, University of Arizona.Alexander von Humboldt Sabbatical Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Deutschland.Shennong （神农）Professor – Huazhong Agricultural Univ., Wuhan, China. Appointed Bud Antle Endowed Chair of Excellence in Agriculture & Life Sciences. Professor -- School of Plant Sciences, Founding Director -- Arizona Genomics Institute, & Member BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona. Since 1994 the Wing laboratory has specialized in the construction/distribution of large-insert BAC libraries for plants and the utilization of these libraries to create fingerprint/BAC end sequence based physical maps for positional cloning and genome sequencing.
Dr. Ravi Prakash Singh is a winner of the 9th DBN Science & Technology Awards International award. CIMMYT, Head, Wheat Improvement and Rust Research, Distinguished Scientist.
Wheat varieties released in various countries from improved germplasm developed during 2004-2015: >150.
More than 27 million hectares of spring bread wheat areas are currently planted in Asia, Africa and Latin America to varieties that were selected directly from CIMMYT developed germplasm by National partners and another 18 million hectares to varieties where National program partners used CIMMYT germplasm as direct parent. Over 50% areas sown to spring wheat varieties in China have CIMMYT parentage.
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