Tu Youyou

Academic

1930 –

90

Who is Tu Youyou?

Tu Youyou, is a Chinese medical scientist, pharmaceutical chemist, and educator. She won the 2011 Lasker Award in Clinical Medicine for discovering artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, which saved millions of lives. The discovery of artemisinin and its treatment of malaria is regarded as a significant breakthrough of tropical medicine in 20th Century and health improvement for people of tropical developing countries in South Asia, Africa, and South America.

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Born
1930
Ningbo
Nationality
  • China
Education
  • Peking University Health Science Center
Lived in
  • Beijing

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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