TU YOUYOU AWARDED NOBEL PRIZE屠呦呦获诺贝尔奖6 October 20152015 年 10 月 6 日This year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to TuYouyou (co-winner), whose research led to the discovery of artemisinin, a crucialnew treatment for malaria. Artemisinin has saved hundreds of thousands of lives,and has led to improved health for millions of people. Over 200 million peoplearound the world get malaria each year, and about 600, 000 die from it.Artemisinin has become a vital part of the treatment for malaria, and is thought tosave 100, 000 lives a year in Africa alone.今年的诺贝尔生理学或医学奖授予了屠呦呦(共同获奖者 )，她的研究促使了青蒿素的发现。这是一种至关重要的治疗疟疾的新疗法。青蒿素挽救了数十万人的生命，并改善了数百万人的健康状况。全世界每年有超过2 亿人罹患疟疾，约 60 万人死于疟疾。青蒿素已成为治疗疟疾的重要组成部分，据认为仅在非洲一年就能挽救 10 万人的生命。Tu Youyou, a committed and patient scientist, was born in Ningbo, China, on 30December 1930, and graduated from Peking University Medical School in 1955.After she graduated, she worked at the China Academy of Traditional ChineseMedicine in Beijing. In 1967, the Chinese government formed a team of scientistswith the objective of discovering a new treatment for malaria, and Tu Youyou wasamong the first researchers chosen. In the beginning, Tu Youyou went to Hainan,where malaria was more common, to study malaria patients. In 1969, she becamethe head of the project in Beijing, and decided to review ancient Chinese medicaltexts to find traditional botanical treatments for the disease. Her team examinedover 2, 000 old medical texts, and evaluated 280, 000 plants for their medical1properties. From their research, they discovered and tested 380 distinct ancientChinese medi...
