Tu Youyou | |||||||||||||||
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屠呦呦 | |||||||||||||||
_(cropped).jpg) Tu in 2015 | |||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 December 1930 Ningbo, Zhejiang, China | ||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Beijing Medical College (BMed)[note 2] | ||||||||||||||
| Known for | Discovering artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin | ||||||||||||||
| Awards | Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (2011) Warren Alpert Foundation Prize (2015) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2015) Highest Science and Technology Award, China (2016) Medal of the Republic, China (2019) | ||||||||||||||
| Scientific career | |||||||||||||||
| Fields | Medicinal chemistry Chinese herbology Antimalarial medication Clinical research | ||||||||||||||
| Institutions | China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine[1][note 1] | ||||||||||||||
| Academic advisors | Lou Zhicen | ||||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
| Chinese | 屠呦呦 | ||||||||||||||
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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, Southeast 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 female citizen of the People's Republic of China to receive a Nobel Prize in any category. She is also the first Chinese person to receive the Lasker Award. Tu was born, educated and carried out her research exclusively in China.[3]
Tu was bestowed the Medal of the Republic, the highest honorary medal of the People's Republic of China, in September 2019.[4]
- ^ "Youyou Tu – Facts". Retrieved 12 October 2015.
- ^ "Introduction". Peking University Health Science Center. 27 October 2010. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
- ^ Miller, Louis H.; Su, Xinzhuan (2011). "Artemisinin: Discovery from the Chinese herbal garden". Cell. 146 (6): 855–858. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2011.08.024. PMC 3414217. PMID 21907397.
- ^ "全国人民代表大会常务委员会关于授予国家勋章和国家荣誉称号的决定_滚动新闻_中国政府网". www.gov.cn. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
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