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May 9, 2024 · Tu Youyou, Chinese scientist and phytochemist known for her isolation and study of the antimalarial substance qinghaosu, later known as artemisinin, one of the world’s most effective malaria-fighting drugs. For her discoveries, Tu won a share of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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Tu Youyou (Chinese: 屠呦呦; pinyin: Tú Yōuyōu; born 30 December 1930) is a Chinese malariologist and pharmaceutical chemist. She discovered artemisinin (also known as qīnghāosù , 青蒿素 ) and dihydroartemisinin , used to treat malaria , a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine , saving millions of lives in South China ...
Nov 17, 2020 · Learn how Youyou Tu, a Chinese pharmaceutical scientist, discovered Qinghaosu, a drug from a plant, to treat malaria. She won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2015 and praised Chinese herbal medicine.
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Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin, a drug to treat malaria, from traditional Chinese medicine in the 1960s and 70s. She overcame the challenges of the Cultural Revolution and received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Sep 10, 2019 · On the afternoon of December 7, 2015, Tu Youyou, the Chinese scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015, delivers a keynote speech at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. In July 1972, Tu and two other researchers were admitted to Beijing Dongzhimen Hospital as the first volunteers to undergo human trials.
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Tu Youyou is the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize for her discovery of artemisinin, a drug used to treat malaria. She studied pharmacology and turned to ancient Chinese medical texts to find the effective compound from sweet wormwood.
