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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 ...
Tu Youyou turned to Chinese medical texts from the Zhou, Qing, and Han Dynasties to find a traditional cure for malaria, ultimately extracting a compound – artemisinin – that has saved millions of lives.
May 9, 2024 · Tu Youyou (born December 30, 1930, Ningbo, Zhejiang province, China) is a 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.
Tu Youyou. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015. Born: 30 December 1930, Zhejiang Ningbo, China. Affiliation at the time of the award: China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China. Prize motivation: “for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria” Prize share: 1/2. Life.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 was divided, one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura "for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites" and the other half to Tu Youyou "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria"
Nov 17, 2020 · The world saw countless deaths caused by malaria until a Chinese pharmaceutical scientist, Youyou Tu, discovered a very effective drug called Qinghaosu (aka artemisinin) from the plant Qinghao (aka artemisia).
Tu Youyou (born 30 December 1930), is a Chinese medical scientist, pharmaceutical chemist, and educator best known for discovering artemisinin (also known as Qinghaosu) and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, which saved millions of lives.
