Tu youyou biography meaning

Chinese pharmaceutical chemist (born )

In this Chinese name, the family name is Tu (屠).

Tu Youyou (Chinese: 屠呦呦; pinyin: Tú Yōuyōu; born 30 December ) is a Nobel Prize-winning 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 Lasker Award in clinical medicine and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura.

Tu youyou biography meaning

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]

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