Tu Youyou
| Tu Youyou 屠呦呦 |
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Tu Youyou, Nobel Laureate in medicine in Stockholm December 2015
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| Native name | 屠呦呦 (Tú Yōuyōu) |
| Born |
30 December 1930 Ningbo, Zhejiang, China |
| Residence | Beijing |
| Citizenship | People's Republic of China |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Fields |
Medicinal chemistry Chinese herbology Antimalarial medication Clinical research |
| Institutions | China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine |
| Alma mater | Peking University Medical School / Beijing Medical College (now Peking University Health Science Center) |
| Academic advisors | Lou Zhicen (at Peking University Medical School / Beijing Medical College) |
| Known for | Discovering artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin in Project 523 |
| Influences |
Lou Zhicen (pharmacognosy) Ge Hong (Chinese herbology) Mao Zedong (promoting integrated traditional Chinese and modern Western medicine; ordering Project 523) |
| Influenced | Project 523 |
| Notable awards |
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (2011) Warren Alpert Foundation Prize (2015) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2015) |
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(Tú, surname) |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Tú Yōuyōu |
| Wade–Giles | T'u2 Yu1-yu1 |
| IPA | [tʰǔ jóu.jóu] |
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| Romanization | Du1 Ieu1 Ieu1 |
(Tú, surname)
(yōu): (the sound of) deer bleating
Tu Youyou (Chinese: 屠呦呦; pinyin: Tú Yōuyōu; born 30 December 1930) is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and educator. She is best known for discovering artemisinin (also known as qinghaosu) and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, and which has saved millions of lives. Her discovery of artemisinin and its treatment of malaria is regarded as a significant breakthrough in 20th century tropical medicine and an important health improvement for people of tropical developing countries in South 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, as well as the first Chinese person to receive the Lasker Award. She was born and educated and carried out research exclusively in China.
Tu carried on her work in the 1960s and 70s during China's Cultural Revolution, when scientists were denigrated as one of the nine black categories in society according to Maoist theory (or possibly that of the Gang of Four).
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