The Nobel Prize will be announced on October 3. The list of this year's winners will be announced. The only Taiwanese in the list of the most popular winners of the Chemistry Prize on the Japanese website is Weng Qihui, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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[Reporter Yang Yuanting/Taipei Report] The Nobel Prize will be announced on October 3. The list of winners will be announced one after another. Among them, the largest website of academic news in the field of chemistry in Japan lists this year's popular Nobel Prize winners in chemistry, former President of Academia Sinica, and American Scripps Researcher. Weng Qihui, chair professor of the academy, was also predicted by the website as one of the most popular candidates for the award.

The Nobel Prize will be announced in succession from October 3rd to 7th. The list of winners of the Medicine Prize, Physics Prize, Chemistry Prize, Literature Prize, Peace Prize, etc. will be announced soon. Possible list of people.

Japan's largest chemical academic news website "Chem-Station" lists the possible winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the website from organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, physical chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, materials chemistry, energy 79 candidates were selected from the fields of chemistry, medicinal chemistry, and theoretical chemistry. Among them, in the field of organic chemistry, Weng Qihui, who was born in Taiwan, is one of the popular candidates predicted by the website to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year, and is also the only one in the predicted list. A Taiwanese.

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Weng Qihui is the first scientist in the world to successfully synthesize a large number of complex polysaccharides (polysaccharides and glycopeptides) with enzyme technology. The method invented by Weng Qihui was later used by the medical community to develop new drugs for the treatment of heart disease, stroke and various inflammatory diseases. Benefiting countless patients, he is also the first scientist to develop automated chemical synthesis of polysaccharide molecules.

Weng Qihui's long-term research and contributions to polysaccharide synthesis methods have changed the scientific community's understanding of sugar molecules, and have a significant impact on the research of functional genome science and the development of new drugs. He invented "programmed one-pot enzyme reaction" for cancer research. , bacterial and viral infection and immune function, bringing new opportunities for vaccine development and treatment, and developing sugar molecule-related glycoproteins, broad-acting influenza vaccines, broad-acting COVID-19 vaccines, and sugar chips.

In 2014, Weng Qihui was recognized by the Wolf Prize, which is recognized as the outpost of the Nobel Prize. He was the first person in Taiwan to win the award. Later, due to the outside world, Weng Qihui was involved in the Haoding case. Under the overwhelming pursuit, Weng Qihui still He devoted himself to research and published academic papers in top journals. The successful development of broad-effect vaccines is one of the representatives. With the judicial restoration of Weng Qihui's innocence, Weng continued to shine in the academic field. Last year, he won the Welsh Prize for recognition. He is the first recipient of this award in Taiwan. This year, he has also received the Chemistry Pioneer Award and the Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Synthesis, both of which are the first scholars in Taiwan to receive this award.