Chinese, Irish, Japanese win Nobel medicine prize

[CHN Bamboo]

I didn't know you were a woman!

Does it matter? :3

Tu Youyou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tu is regarded as the Professor of Three Nos – no postgraduate degree (there was no postgraduate education in then-China), no study or research experience abroad, and not a member of any Chinese national academies, i.e.Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering. Up until 1979, there were no postgraduate degree programs in China, and China was largely isolated from the rest of the world. Tu is now regarded as a representative figure of the first generation Chinese medical workers since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

Congrats to Tu Youyou！
She did it during China's hardest time.

1950s
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1970s
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青蒿素!
It saved many people,many Vietnamese included.

 

[Edison Chen]

呦呦鹿鸣,食野之苹。我有嘉宾,鼓瑟吹笙。吹笙鼓簧,承筐是将。人之好我,示我周行。呦呦鹿鸣,食野之蒿。我有嘉宾,德音孔昭。视民不恌,君子是则是效。我有旨酒,嘉宾式燕以敖。呦呦鹿鸣,食野之芩。我有嘉宾,鼓瑟鼓琴。鼓瑟鼓琴,和乐且湛。我有旨酒,以燕乐嘉宾之心。

 

[beijingwalker]

Chinese, Irish, Japanese win Nobel medicine prize
5 Oct 2015 at 17:24

Pharmacologist Tu Youyou attends a award ceremony in Beijing Nov 15, 2011. William Campbell, Satoshi Omura and Ms Tu jointly won the 2015 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology for their work against parasitic diseases, the award-giving body said on Oct 5. (Reuters photo)

STOCKHOLM — Three scientists from Ireland, Japan and China won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that helped doctors fight malaria and infections caused by roundworm parasites.

The Nobel judges in Stockholm awarded the prestigious prize to Irish-born William Campbell, Satoshi Omura and of Japan and Tu Youyou -- the first ever Chinese medicine laureate.

Mr Campbell and Mr Omura were cited for discovering a drug that has helped lower the incidence of river blindness and lymphatic filariasis, two diseases caused by parasitic worms.

Ms Tu discovered a drug that has helped significantly reduce the mortality rates of malaria patients.

"The two discoveries have provided humankind with powerful new means to combat these debilitating diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people annually," the committee said. "The consequences in terms of improved human health and reduced suffering are immensurable."

Mr Campbell is a research fellow emeritus at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Mr Omura, 80, is a professor emeritus at Kitasato University in Japan and is from the central prefecture of Yamanashi. Ms Tu is chief professor at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The medicine award was the first Nobel Prize to be announced. The winners of the physics, chemistry and peace prizes are set to be announced later this week. The economics prize will be announced next Monday. No date has been set yet for the literature prize, but it is expected to be announced on Thursday.

The winners will share the 8 million Swedish kronor (about US$960,000) prize money with one half going to Mr Campbell and Mr Omura, and the other to Ms Tu. Each winner will also get a diploma and a gold medal at the annual award ceremony on Dec 10, the anniversary of the death of prize founder Alfred Nobel.

Last year's medicine award went to three scientists who discovered the brain's inner navigation system.

Chinese, Irish, Japanese win Nobel medicine prize | Bangkok Post: news

 

[CHN Bamboo]

呦呦鹿鸣,食野之苹。我有嘉宾,鼓瑟吹笙。吹笙鼓簧,承筐是将。人之好我,示我周行。呦呦鹿鸣,食野之蒿。我有嘉宾,德音孔昭。视民不恌,君子是则是效。我有旨酒,嘉宾式燕以敖。呦呦鹿鸣,食野之芩。我有嘉宾,鼓瑟鼓琴。鼓瑟鼓琴,和乐且湛。我有旨酒,以燕乐嘉宾之心。

Yes!
Her name is from《诗经》（shi jing,The Book of Songs）【The poetry book in 1100BC~600BC】

呦呦鹿鸣，食野之苹。我有嘉宾，鼓瑟吹笙。
↓
屠呦呦。

 

[AndrewJin]

呦呦鹿鸣,食野之苹。我有嘉宾,鼓瑟吹笙。吹笙鼓簧,承筐是将。人之好我,示我周行。呦呦鹿鸣,食野之蒿。我有嘉宾,德音孔昭。视民不恌,君子是则是效。我有旨酒,嘉宾式燕以敖。呦呦鹿鸣,食野之芩。我有嘉宾,鼓瑟鼓琴。鼓瑟鼓琴,和乐且湛。我有旨酒,以燕乐嘉宾之心。

呦呦鹿鸣,食野之蒿。

What a coincidence!
The origin of her name(呦呦 you you) and 蒿（as in the anti-malaria drug 青蒿素）in the same sentence from the Classic of Poetry (11th to 7th century BC).
She is destined to contribute her whole life to malaria and 青蒿素（Artemisinin）

 

[55100864]

congrats！the first chinese won Nobel without publishing anti-china articles.
Being anti-China is an important criteria for winning the Nobel price,she must be really good at science to offsets her "political incorrectness"

 

[AndrewJin]

congrats！the first chinese won Nobel without publishing anti-china articles.

And....

Tu carried on her work in the 1960s and 70s during China's Cultural Revolution, when scientists were ranked as the lowest class (aka 'Stinking Old Ninth') in Chinese society according to Mao's theory. But China's ally, North Vietnam, was at war with South Vietnam and the U.S. Malaria was a major cause of death, and evolving resistance to chloroquine. Malaria was also a major cause of death in China's southern provinces including Hainan, Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guangdong. Mao Zedong set up a secret drug discovery project, named Project 523 after its starting date, 23 May 1967.[2]

@Bussard Ramjet pls use thread tool to correctly spell her name.

 

[AndrewJin]

Malaria
Tu started her malaria research in China when the Cultural Revolution was in progress. In early 1969, Tu was appointed head of the project, named Project 523 research group at her institute. She collected 2000 candidate recipes, ancient texts, and folk remedies for possible leads for her research. By 1971, her team had made 380 extracts from 200 herbs, and discovered the extracts from Qinghao (Artemisia annua, sweet wormwood) looked particularly promising in dramatically inhibiting Plasmodium growth in animals. Tu found the way to extract it and her innovations boosted potency and slashed toxicity of this extract.[9]In 1972, she and her colleagues obtained the pure substance and named it Qinghaosu (青蒿素) or artemisinin now commonly called in the west,[9][10][11]which has saved millions of lives, especially in the developing world.[12] Tu also studied the chemical structure and pharmacology of artemisinin.[9] Tu's group first determined the chemical structure of artemisinin. In 1973, Tu wanted to confirm the carbonyl group in the artemisinin molecule therefore accidentally synthesized dihydroartemisinin.

 

[55100864]

And....

Tu carried on her work in the 1960s and 70s during China's Cultural Revolution, when scientists were ranked as the lowest class (aka 'Stinking Old Ninth') in Chinese society according to Mao's theory. But China's ally, North Vietnam, was at war with South Vietnam and the U.S. Malaria was a major cause of death, and evolving resistance to chloroquine. Malaria was also a major cause of death in China's southern provinces including Hainan, Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guangdong. Mao Zedong set up a secret drug discovery project, named Project 523 after its starting date, 23 May 1967.[2]

WTF?? just how boring the westerners are? LOL

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

With or without a Nobel prize, their contributions to humanity is worth more than that.

LOL Remember "USA President Obama" won the Nobel Peace Prize. So he is a peace loving man as defined by the politician at the Danish Parliament. He received a full cheque.

Whereas the poor souls above for their lifelong research earned them half or quarter the amount of the cheque.

 

[mpk1988]

Great Stuff.. Pioneering!!! Kudos to Tu Youyou and China

Does it matter? :3

Of-course it does..

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

Congrats

 

[anon45]

congrats！the first chinese won Nobel without publishing anti-china articles.
Being anti-China is an important criteria for winning the Nobel price,she must be really good at science to offsets her "political incorrectness"

Or in fact nobel prizes are not politically inclined or racially/ culturally motivated...except for the nobel peace prize... that one is a joke and has been for a while.

 

[Yizhi]

@AndrewJin remember one of the professor saying:

heath is the most important, you got to live long enough first to see the Nobel..

 

[AndrewJin]

@AndrewJin remember one of the professor saying:

heath is the most important, you got to live long enough first to see the Nobel..

hope China's life expectancy increases faster than now.