AsianScientist (Could. 29, 2023) –Asian Scientist Journal has printed the eighth iteration of the Asian Scientist 100 (2023 version), a listing we compile yearly to focus on prime scientific expertise within the area. This yr’s listing exhibits the groundbreaking achievements of researchers and trade leaders decided to rework our world—from understanding glacial cycles and structural geology to advancing house exploration.
Asia’s researchers proceed to dream large and serve marginalized communities. Pushing the boundaries of the unknown, the awardees, with the assistance of their groups, achieved enormous successes. These embody dropping the speed of recent HIV/AIDS infections in Malaysia by 50 p.c over the course of a decade, figuring out the connection between the chikungunya virus and meningitis in Bangladeshi kids and treating eye problems of over 20,000 sufferers in Japan in addition to coaching and supporting ophthalmologists in Vietnam.
This yr’s listing contains honorees from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam in fields starting from fashionable quantity idea to psychological well being.
The Asian Scientist 100 (2023 version) contains trailblazing girls in sustainability like Dr Asha DeVos, founding father of Oceanswell, Sri Lanka’s first marine conservation analysis and schooling group, and the primary Nationwide Geographic explorer from the nation. Dr Aletta Yñiquez from the Philippines seems on the listing as effectively for her work with native communities advocating for sustainable fishing practices and designing accessible synthetic intelligence techniques that may warn of dangerous algal blooms.
Within the area of psychological well being, researchers look to heal outdated scars and discover new options. Within the wake of the Cambodian Civil Warfare, roughly 40 p.c of Cambodians suffered persevering with psychological well being issues. From the early 2000s, psychiatrist Dr Chhim Sotheara has persistently led community-based integrative psychological well being help. Trying to find a greater understanding of rising psychological well being diagnoses, neuroscientist Professor Vidita Vaidya gained the 2022 Infosys Prize in Life Sciences for her work exploring the mind mechanisms behind temper problems like anxiousness and melancholy.
To be included on the listing, honorees will need to have been awarded a nationwide or worldwide prize in 2022. Alternatively, they will need to have achieved a big accomplishment akin to a scientific discovery or demonstrated management that advances scientific enterprise.
“The honorees featured on this yr’s listing have labored relentlessly and harnessed science to enhance the lives of the individuals round them and the setting we stay in,” stated Dr Juliana Chan, CEO and writer of Asian Scientist Journal. “By highlighting their efforts, we hope to encourage a brand new era of younger scientists.”
The listing, in no order of advantage, is obtainable on-line right here.
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