From Artemisia annua L. to Artemisinins
The Discovery and Development of Artemisinins and Antimalarial Agents
$431.65
- Hardcover
468 pages
- Release Date
10 July 2017
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From Artemisia annua L. to Artemisinins: The Discovery and Development of Artemisinins and Antimalarial Agents
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780128116555 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0128116552 |
| Author: | Youyou Tu |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc |
| Imprint: | Academic Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 468 |
| Release Date: | 10 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 1.20kg |
| Dimensions: | 191mm x 235mm |
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Youyou Tu
Tu Youyou (屠呦呦, born 30 December 1930) is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and educator. She is best known for discovering artemisinin (also known as Qinghaosu) and dihydroartemisinin, used to treatmalaria, which saved millions of lives. Her discovery of artemisinin and its treatment of malaria is regarded as a significant breakthrough of tropical medicine in the 20th century and health improvement for people of tropical developing countries in South Asia, Africa, and South America. For her work, Tu received the 2011 Lasker Award in clinical medicine and the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura. Tu is the first Chinese Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine and the first citizen of the People’s Republic of China to receive the Nobel Prize in natural sciences, as well as the first Chinese person to receive the Lasker Award. She was born and educated and carried out research exclusively in China
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