Three scientists from China and France have been awarded Hong Kong's Shaw Prize for developing a groundbreaking therapy that has made a rare form of leukemia highly curable. The prize is recognized as a significant honor in life sciences.

Three life scientists from mainland China and France have won Hong Kong’s Shaw Prize for developing a therapy that has turned a rare form of leukaemia from deadly to widely curable. Professor Emerita Anne Dejean, Professor Hugues de The and Professor Chen Zhu have won in equal shares the life sciences and medicine prize of the Shaw Prize, which has been dubbed the “Nobel Prize of the East”. The three academics were recognised for their discovery of the molecular and cellular bases of acute...