5 foreigners awarded in Iran's Khwarizmi scientific festival

The foreign laureates of the 31st KIA Laureates in the Fundamental Research Section are as follow:

• Prof. Eric Vivier from France for 'Harnessing innate immunity against cancer'
• Prof. Jianfang Wang from Hong Kong for 'Colloidal Plasmonic Metal Nanocrystals'
• Prof. Majed Chergui from Switzerland for 'Unravelling the fundamentals of solar'
• Prof. Katharina Gaus from Australia for 'Single molecule imaging of T cell receptor signaling'
• Prof. Dr. Burkhard Büdel from Germany for 'Role of lichens and cyanobacteria in biological soil crusts'

Apart from the foreign elites receiving awards, 10 Iranian scholars were also chosen in other fields.

Iran has played a leading role in producing and promoting science in both pre- and post-Islam eras, President Rouhani said addressing the closing ceremony of the 31st Khwarizmi International Award held in the Iranian capital this morning.

In his speech, the president described Iran as a great country always being a pioneer in civilization and science.

Iran, he added, is also the first regional country which presented a model of religious democracy to the world.

It is three decades that Khwarizmi International Award is being held in the country with the purpose of identifying and introducing the exemplars of science.

Altogether, 337 domestic and 133 foreign projects from 49 countries were presented to the international scientific event.

From the total projects, ten belonging to Iranian researchers and five to the foreigners were awarded at the end of the Khwarizmi ceremony.

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