Tu Youyou, female, pharmacist. 1930 was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang province on February 30th, and was admitted to Peking University in195/0, studying in the department of biochemistry and pharmacy of medical college. 1955, graduated from Beijing Medical College (now peking university health science center). 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 this period, he was promoted to master tutor and doctoral tutor, and now he is the chief scientist of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. . Lifelong researcher and chief researcher of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, director of artemisinin research and development center, doctoral supervisor, pharmacist, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Tu Youyou 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 Tu Youyou 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.

Tu Youyou is the first China native scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Science and the first China scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. It is by far the highest award in China's medical field, and it is also the highest award for the achievements of traditional Chinese medicine.

20 17 1.9, Tu Youyou won the highest national science and technology award 20 16.