HomeDate: 2022-03-10
To improve the level of Taiwan's academic research and academic status in the international community, facilitate the benefits of social development and industrial application, highlight the diverse value of Taiwan's research efforts, and boost the country's technological capacity, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has established the Outstanding Research Award to reward the scientific and technological talents who devote themselves to basic or applied research. Up to eighty awards are granted by the MOST annually, and each awardee is to receive NT $900,000 and a certificate from MOST.
The list of the 2021 awardees from Academia Sinica is as follows:
No. | Awardee | Affiliation |
| 1 | Yuki Nakamura | Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology |
| 2 | Chia-Fu Yu | Institute of Mathematics |
| 3 | Wen-Chin Wu | Institute of Political Science |
| 4 | Shang-Te Danny Hsu | Institute of Biological Chemistry |
| 5 | Cheng-Fu Kao | Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology |
| 6 | Yu-Chin Hsu | Institute of Economics |
| 7 | Chih-Jou Jay Chen | Institute of Sociology |
| 8 | Shu-Chun Susan Yang | Institute of Economics |
| 9 | Ruey-Bing Ray Yang | Institute of Biomedical Sciences |
| 10 | Kuo-Chen Yeh | Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center |
| 11 | Shih-Chun Candice Lung | Research Center for Environmental Changes |
| 12 | Wen-Pin Hsieh | Institute of Earth Sciences |
| 13 | Shu-Min Chung | Institute of Taiwan History |
*The list is in accordance with the list provided by MOST.
