Tu Youyou, lifelong researcher and chief researcher of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, director of artemisinin research and development center. Her outstanding contribution is to create new antimalarial drugs-artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin. 20 1 1 won the lasker prize, which is known as the "wind vane" of the Nobel Prize. 20 15 10 5, won the nobel prize in physiology or medicine.

The Nobel Prize Selection Committee said that diseases caused by parasites have plagued mankind for thousands of years and constituted a major global health problem. The application of artemisinin discovered in Tu Youyou in treatment has significantly reduced the mortality rate of malaria patients.

Professor Tu is indifferent to winning the Nobel Prize. "I didn't know I won the prize until I watched TV. I don't feel particularly surprised, because this is not my own honor, but the honor of all scientists in China. Everyone has studied together for decades, and it is not unexpected to win the prize. "