195 1 year, Tu Youyou.
I entered Peking University Medical College (now peking university health science center), and pharmacognosy was my first choice. She believes that the pharmacognosy major is most likely to be close to exploring the field of traditional Chinese medicine with a long history, which is in line with her own interests and
Ideal. After four years in college, Tu Youyou studied hard and got excellent grades. In specialized courses, she is particularly interested in phytochemistry, materia medica and plant taxonomy.
65438-0955, graduated from Tu Youyou University, and was assigned to the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine (now Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine) directly under the Ministry of Health.
From 65438 to 0969, Tu Youyou's Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine received a research and development task of "Anti-malaria of Chinese Herbal Medicine", code number 523, which became the code name of the project of researching new drugs for malaria control at that time. Tu Youyou joined the collaboration group of traditional Chinese medicine, consulted the medical records of past dynasties together with researchers from the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and screened out antimalarial prescriptions with high frequency, and conducted experiments on the efficacy of these prescriptions.
197 1 In the second half, Tu Youyou was extracted by ethyl ether with a boiling point lower than that of ethanol. The neutral extract of Artemisia annua was successfully extracted on 197 1 10, and the inhibition rate to Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium monkey was 100%.
She was the first one.
Artemisinin is a new sesquiterpene lactone, which was published in Science Bulletin and attracted close attention from all countries in the world. 1980 Tu Youyou was hired as a master student.
Tutor, 200 1 hired as doctoral tutor. She has been engaged in the research of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine for many years, and her outstanding contribution is to create new antimalarial drugs-artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin.