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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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"
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.
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).
Oct 10, 2019 · Peking University, Oct. 10, 2019: Tu Youyou, a Chinese scientist or more specifically, phytochemist – a specialist in studying the chemistry of plants, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
Tu Youyou is the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize for her discovery of artemisinin, a drug used to treat malaria. After contracting tuberculosis at the age of 16, she determined that she wanted to study medicine in order to help others.
Professor Tu Youyou was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015 for her groundbreaking work in the discovery of artemisinin, a drug that has significantly reduced the mortality rates for patients suffering from malaria.
