Awards for outstanding scientists

The projects were in mechanical engineering – automation field, new materials, IT and telecommunications, biology, and environment protection technology.

The WIPO award for female scientists goes to Ho Huynh Thuy Duong, from the HCM City University for Natural Sciences, for her work on “building hepatitis virus quantifying process by real-time RT-PCR technology serving research and treatment of hepatitis C”.

The WIPO award for the best work earning the Vietnam Scientific – Technology Award 2005 belongs to a group of inventors from the Z133 factory under the Ministry of Defence.

The WIPO Award for outstanding business in 2005 will come to Vinacafé Bien Hoa Joint Stock Company in southern Dong Nai Province.

The Vietnam Science – Technology Awards are established to encourage scientists to research and apply sci-tech achievements in production and daily life. The awards are presented to scientists who have valuable sci-tech projects that are applied effectively in Vietnam.