Tehran (IP)- The 2021 Mustafa Prize Laureates' busts were installed at Pardis Technology Park (PTP) on Dec 17, 2022. The President of the PTP and Bangladesh ambassador to Tehran attended the ceremony.

Iran PressIran news: The Mustafa Prize is awarded in four categories of information and communication science and technology, life and medical science and technology, nanoscience and nanotechnology, and all areas of science and technology.

The Mustafa Prize seeks to encourage education and research. It plays a leading role in developing regional relations between science and technology institutions working in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member countries.

It was launched in 2013, with high-profile universities and academic centers of the OIC member states defining its policies.

Five Muslim scientists were announced winners of the Mustafa Prize 2021; a biennial award launched in 2013 to promote science and technology in the Islamic world: Mohamed H. Sayegh,  from Lebanon, Professor of Medicine and Immunology, American University of Beirut, Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary from Pakistan, Kamran Vafa from Iran, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, Harvard University, Zahid Hasan from Bangladesh, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics, Princeton University, and Yahya Tayalati from Morocco, Professor of Physics, University Mohammed V in Rabat. 

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