President Tran Dai Quang bestows Ho Chi Minh Awards of Science and Technology onto authors (Photo: Nhan Sang/VNA)

Awardees included a project on the Truong Sa archipelago co-created by 33 people, and another project on applying scientific and technological advances in treatment of primary liver cancer and digestive diseases. Prof. Dr. Mai Hong Bang and 18 others are co-authors of that project.

The Ho Chi Minh Awards of Science and Technology is an honorable distinction the Party and State bestow onto excellent, influential projects that contribute greatly to national construction and defense.