China’s Tu Youyou Wins Nobel Peace Prize for Discovering Treatment for Malaria Using Chinese Traditional Medicine

People’s Republic of China’s Tu Youyou, along with scientists Satoshi Ohmura and William C. Campbell, win Nobel Peace Prize for Artemisinin

Tu Youyou becomes 1st Chinese to win Nobel medicine prize from New China Tv

From Wikipedia: “Tu Youyou (Chinese: 屠呦呦; born 30 December 1930) is a Chinese medical scientist, pharmaceutical chemist, pharmacist, and educator. She is best known for discovering artemisinin (also known as qinghaosu) and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, which saved millions of lives. Her discovery of artemisinin and its treatment of malaria is regarded as a significant breakthrough of tropical medicine in the 20th century and health improvement for people of tropical developing countries in South Asia, Africa, and South America. For her work, Tu received the 2011 Lasker Award in clinical medicine and the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura. Tu is the first Chinese Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine and the first citizen of the People’s Republic of China to receive the Nobel Prize in natural sciences, as well as the first Chinese person to receive the Lasker Award. She was born and educated and carried out research exclusively in China.” Read more on Wikipedia by clicking here.



Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 from Nobel Prize