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Secretary of Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine Praises Chinese Laureate Tu Youyou

The secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine has spoken highly of Chinese Nobel laureate Tu Youyou for her discovery of artemisinin, a drug used in the treatment of malaria. Urban Lendahl, the secretary, announced Tu as a joint winner of the 2015 Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday at a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Chinese scientist Tu won the prize with Irish-born William Campbell and Japan's Satoshi Omura. Lendahl spoke highly of Tu's discovery in modern medicine. "This year we think that Youyou Tu is clearly qualified as a Nobel laureate. I mean we are very impressed by going all the way from the traditional medicine and then making a modern drug that can be really used to treat malaria across the world. I mean that's a very significant discovery. It's very measurable because to use artemisinin today as a treatment for malaria, that has really saved a lot of life on the planet and it has also raised the life quality. So I mean it's been a game-changing thing for malaria. And of course there are other ways also with mosquito nets and spraying and so on, but that's more for stopping the spreading of the disease. But this is really a medication that is used for patients and the really severe forms of malaria and is very effective against the disease in that state. So I think that's a very admirable discovery," said Lendahl. Tu, born in 1930, won half of the prize for her discovery of artemisinin, a drug that has significantly reduced mortality rates for patients suffering from malaria. Tu joined the Project 523 research group in January 1969, studying measures to treat malaria. By 1971, her team had made 380 extracts from 200 herbs and had discovered extracts from Qinghao, or artemisia annua, which looked particularly promising in dramatically inhibiting plasmodium growth in animals. Lendahl said the inspiration for her discovery came from traditional Chinese medicine. "The way we see it is that she found inspiration in traditional Chinese medicine, but then it's been a journey from that on and really making the plant extract, getting all the way to the structure, and now having it in a way where it is clinically controlled and it's a modern medicine in that regard. So we see it as the inspiration was coming from traditional Chinese medicine, but then the drug has made all the journey up to a modern drug that is tested in every way," said Lendahl. More on: http://newscontent.cctv.com/NewJsp/ne... Subscribe us on Youtube:    / @cctvvideonewsagency   CCTV+ official website: http://newscontent.cctv.com/ LinkedIn:   / cctv-news-content   Facebook:   / 756877521031964   Twitter:   / newscontentplus