This is an annual JINR award given to the best articles in four research fields: theoretical physics, experimental physics, physical methods and devices, and applied physics. The field of theoretical physics has four prizes, of which the third prize work is "Weak decays of heavy hadrons in light of search for new physics". Dr. Tran Chien Thang is the only Vietnamese researcher awarded award 2023 by Dubna.

According to information from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technical Education, Dr. Tran Chien Thang studied for a doctorate in Theoretical Physics at the Moscow Institute of Technical Physics and did a postdoc at the University of Naples - Italy. In 2021, he was awarded the Young Researcher Award by the Vietnam Theoretical Physics Association for three works published in Physical Review D magazine and received three nominations from Professors. Mikhail Ivanov (Bogoliubov Dubna Department of Theoretical Physics), Professor. Pietro Colangelo (National Nuclear Research Institute of Bari, Italy) and Professor. Pierre Darriulat (Vietnam Space Center).