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Tu Youyou

Vytautė Mikašauskaitė 8b
Early Life
Academy of Traditional Chinese
Tu was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China, on 30 December 1930. Medicine in Beijing.

While she was in Ningbo Middle School in 1948 a tuberculosis infection


interrupted her high-school education but inspired her to go into medical
research.
Peking University Medical School of
Pharmacy
So from 1951 to 1955, she attended Peking University Medical School of
Pharmacy. Scientist researched on herbal medicine and studied at the
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Later she was trained for two
years of traditional Chinese medicine.

After that Tu worked at the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Malaria
In 1967 malaria was a mayor cause death in China's southern provinces.

In 1969 Tu was sent to Hainan, where she studied patients who had been
infected with the disease. During that she got an idea of screening Chinese
herbs.

She has been investigating this subject and visiting all country on her own to
find more details about the cure.

Scientist gathered her findings in a notebook called “A Collection of Single Artemisinin

Practical Prescriptions for Anti-Malaria”. She and other scientists later used
that during process.

After a lot of failed attempts in 1972 Tu and her colleagues finally obtained
the pure cure and named it artemisinin ( in English).
Results
This substance has now saved millions of lives, especially in the
developing world.

Tu volunteered to be the first human test subject. "As head of this


research group, I had the responsibility" she said.

It was safe, so she leaded successful clinical trials with human patients.

Her work was published anonymously in 1977. In 1981, she presented


the artemisinin at a meeting with the World Health Organization.

For her work on malaria, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine
on 5 October 2015. She was the first Chinese person who won this
Now
Now in 2023 Tu (92 years old) is chief scientist of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences.
She has two children and a husband.

During her career she won 12 awards and honours.

After her work with malaria’s cure she has


changed job positions thrice.

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