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.

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 15,65438 On the afternoon of February 7th, 2015 China scientist Tu Youyou, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, delivered a keynote speech entitled "Discovery of Artemisinin: Gift of Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World" at Karolinska Medical College in Sweden.