After graduation, he received Chinese medicine training for two and a half years, and has been working in China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (renamed China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2005), during which he was promoted to master tutor and doctoral tutor. At present, he is the chief scientist, lifelong researcher and chief researcher of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, director of artemisinin research and development center, doctoral tutor and winner of the Republic Medal. ?
He has been engaged in the research of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine for many years, and his outstanding contribution is to create new antimalarial drugs artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin. A colorless crystal with the molecular formula of C 15H22O5 was successfully extracted from 1972 and named artemisinin.
20 1 1 In September, artemisinin, a drug used to treat malaria, saved millions of lives around the world, especially in developing countries, and won the Lasker Prize and the "Outstanding Achievement Award in Life Science" of GlaxoSmithKline China R&D Center.
20 15 10 won the nobel prize in physiology or medicine for discovering artemisinin which can effectively reduce the mortality of malaria patients. She became the first China person to win the Nobel Prize in Science.
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Early experience
1930 12.30, Tu Youyou was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and is the only girl among five children. "Yo yo, Luming Literature, Wild Apple", a famous sentence in The Book of Songs, Xiaoya, pinned the good expectations of Tu Youyou's parents.
1935, five-year-old Tu Youyou was sent to kindergarten by her parents. 1 year later, she entered the private Chongde Primary School in Ningbo and became a primary school student. 1 1 studied in Ningbo private west primary school senior high school, 13 years old studied in Ningbo private Yongjiang girls' school junior high school. ?
1946, 16-year-old Tu Youyou unfortunately contracted tuberculosis and was forced to terminate his studies.
1February, 948, Tu Youyou dropped out of school for two years, and entered Ningbo Private Xiaoshi Middle School with the same academic qualifications. ?
1950 entered Ningbo middle school to attend senior three;
195 1 year, Tu Youyou was admitted to Peking University and studied in the Department of Pharmacy of Peking University Medical College, majoring in pharmacognosy; 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.
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