Among the three winners, I admire Tu Youyou the most. She is the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel prize. She won half of the science award for her work on an anti-malarial drug. Through her ...

Chinese-born Tu Youyou was a joint winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering artemisinin, a drug that has significantly reduced mortality rates for patients ...

Chinese medical scientist Tu Youyou’s winning of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine triggered a debate over the influence of traditional Chinese medicine in finding artemisinin ...

Here is a list of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in the past ... Satoshi Omura of Japan and Tu Youyou of China, for unlocking treatments for malaria and roundworm.

BEIJING: China’s Tu Youyou collects her country’s first Nobel Prize for medicine next week for extracting an anti-malarial drug from a herb mentioned in a traditional text, but her award has ...