Mahathir Science Award Foundation (MSAF) is a Malaysian organization that oversees and manages the Mahathir Science Award (MSA). Furthermore, it bestows the award on scientists, institutions, or organizations worldwide in recognition of contributions and innovations towards solving problems of the tropics through science and technology; to confer the award to researchers who have produced internationally recognized breakthroughs in pioneering tropical research and who have contributed cutting edge tropical research that has brought impact on the well-being of society in the fields of Tropical Agriculture, Tropical Architecture and Engineering, Tropical Medicine and Tropical Natural Resources.