Tu Youyou
Tu Youyou (Cheenese: 屠呦呦; pinyin: Tú Yōuyōu; born 30 December 1930) is a Cheenese pharmaceutical chemist an eddicator.
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She is best kent for discoverin artemisinin (kent as qinghaosu an aw) an dihydroartemisinin, uised tae treat malaria, which saved millions o lives. Her discovery o artemisinin an its treatment o malaria is regairdit as a signeeficant breakthrou o tropical medicine in the 20t century an heal improvement for fowk o tropical developin kintras in Sooth Asie, Africae, an Sooth America. For her wirk, Tu received the 2011 Lasker Awaird in clinical medicine an the 2015 Nobel Prize in Pheesiology or Medicine jyntly wi William C. Campbell an Satoshi Ōmura. Tu is the first Cheenese Nobel laureate in pheesiology or medicine an the first female ceetizen o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae tae receive a Nobel Prize in ony category, as well as the first Cheenese person tae receive the Lasker Awaird. She wis born an eddicatit an carried oot resairch exclusively in Cheenae.
 Tu Youyou 屠呦呦 | |
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 Tu Youyou, Nobel Laureate in medicine in Stockholm December 2015 | |
| Native name | 屠呦呦 (Tú Yōuyōu) |
| Born | 30 December 1930 Ningbo, Zhejiang, Cheenae |
| Residence | Beijing |
| Naitionality | Cheenese |
| Citizenship | Fowkrepublic o Cheenae |
| Alma mater | Peking University Medical School / Beijing Medical College (now Peking University Health Science Center) |
| Kent for | Discoverin artemisinin an dihydroartemisinin in Project 523 |
| Awairds | Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Awaird (2011) Warren Alpert Foundation Prize (2015) Nobel Prize in Pheesiology or Medicine (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Medicinal chemistry Cheenese yerbology Antimalarial medication Clinical resairch |
| Institutions | Cheenae Academy o Tradeetional Cheenese Medicine |
| Academic advisors | Lou Zhicen (at Peking Varsity Medical School / Beijing Medical College) |
| Influences | Lou Zhicen (pharmacognosy) Ge Hong (Chinese herbology) Mao Zedong (promoting integrated traditional Chinese and modern Western medicine; ordering Project 523) |
| Influenced | Project 523 |
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| Cheenese | 屠呦呦 | ||||||||||||||
| Leeteral meanin | 屠 (Tú, surname) 呦 (yōu): (the sound of) deer bleating | ||||||||||||||
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