Try poison with your own body:

Jiang clearly remembers that when doing artemisinin animal experiments, it was found that transaminase had a transient increase. Tu Youyou and her two colleagues, regardless of their personal health, decided to try it on themselves. Personally confirmed the safety of the drug, and then put it into clinical use for patients. At that time, the scientific research conditions and environment were poor. The vat filled with Artemisia annua soaked in ether always gives off a pungent smell ... Later, Tu Youyou got toxic hepatitis; Zhong Yurong, a member of her team, found a lump in her lung and removed part of her trachea and lungs. Another researcher, Cui, died very early.

Zhang Boli, an academician of China Academy of Engineering, said that we are in a critical period of national development, and we should learn from the sense of responsibility of the older generation of scientists to take the needs of the country and the people as their own responsibility; Must be good at inheritance and be brave in innovation; It is necessary to cultivate a work style of hard work, painstaking research, perseverance and perseverance. We should get rid of impetuousness and indifference to fame and fortune and always work hard around scientific goals; We should be broad-minded, be good at unity and cooperation, and tackle key problems together.

Meaning:

Since 2 1 century, artemisinin compounds have become the mainstream drugs to treat malaria. In September 20 15, the World Health Organization released the report "Achieving the Millennium Development Goals on malaria", which mentioned that in 20 15, the current situation of human struggle against malaria was completely contrary to the pessimistic prediction at the beginning of the new millennium: compared with 2000, the number of new malaria infections in the world decreased by 37%, and the mortality rate decreased by 60%, which could be translated into saving 6.2 million cases.

Reference to the above content: People's Daily Online-Tu Youyou: Creating Artemisinin Anti-malaria Legend