Youyou tu biography

Main achievements: Discovering artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin in Project 523.

Tu Youyou (born 30 December 1930), is a Chinese medical scientist, pharmaceutical chemist, and educator best known for discovering artemisinin (also known as Qinghaosu) and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, which saved millions of lives.

The discovery of artemisinin and its treatment of malaria is regarded as a significant breakthrough of tropical medicine in the 20th Century and 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.

Tu was the first native Chinese to win Lasker award in history who was educated in China and whose work was carried out within