屠呦呦英文介绍.ppt

1. Brief introduction of Tu Youyou
2. Malaria  research - artemisinin
3. Inspiration
Brief introduction
Tu Youyou, born in 1930 in Ningbo, has been a pharmacologist at the China Academy of Chinese Medicine Science since 1965, engaging in research of bination of TCM and WM.
TCM: traditional Chinese medicine 
WM: western medicine
Her 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 .
In 11 December(Beijing Time),Tu Youyou received her 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in Sweden.
Tu is the first Chinese Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine and the first citizen of the People's Republic of China to receive the Nobel Prize in natural sciences.
“The Professor of Three Nos ”: no postgraduate degree , no study or research experience abroad , not a member of any Chinese national academies .
Malaria  research - artemisinin
Artemisinin, a drug that has significantly reduced the death rate of malaria patients, and saved millions of lives across the globe, especially in the developing country.
Tu started her  malaria research in China when the Cultural Revolution was in progress. In early 1969, Tu was appointed as the head of the project, named Project 523 research group at her institute. She and her colleagues experimented with 380 extracts in 2,000 candidate recipes before they finally eeded.
In 1971, Tu was inspired by many ancient classic works on TCM.  
Using a pioneering low-temperature method, Tu and her team first extracted artemisinin from a sweet wormwood plant(青蒿).
For the sake of drug safety, she had personally taking tests,which led to her liver poisoning, but she still kept on working, regardless of picking samples in the wild,