# Tu Youyou
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tu youyou (Chinese: 屠呦呦; pinyin: Tú Yōuyōu; born 30 December 1930) is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist. She discovered artemisinin (also known as qīnghāosù 青蒿素) and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives in South China, Southeast 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.
Discover the philosophy of traditional Chinese medicine 探寻中医的智慧
Ever wondered how traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has stayed relevant for thousands of years? From balancing yin and yang to the idea of "treating illness before it happens," this week's Takeaway Chinese dives into the wisdom behind TCM — plus, you'll pick up some useful Chinese words along th...
Tu Youyou – Nobel-Winning Scientist Who Discovered Artemisinin
This episode highlights the extraordinary life and work of Tu Youyou, the Chinese scientist whose discovery of artemisinin revolutionized global malaria treatment and saved millions of lives. Born in 1930 and inspired by her own childhood illness, Tu Youyou pursued medicine with a determination s...
Tu Youyou: The Scientist Who Saved Millions
For decades, her life-saving discovery went largely unrecognized outside scientific circles. In this episode of Secret Heroes, we tell the remarkable story of Tu Youyou, the Chinese pharmaceutical chemist whose groundbreaking work led to the discovery of artemisinin, a treatment that has saved mi...
Tu Youyou
In the 1970’s Tu Youyou used research into traditional Chinese medicine to discover and synthesize a revolutionary malaria treatment.
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Bianca’s Cure: Science, Medicine, and Life in Renaissance Florence
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Women in STEM Who Changed the World | Marie Curie, Katherine Johnson & More
This Women’s History Month, High Heels, Higher Standards honors the brilliant women whose discoveries helped build the modern world — even when history didn’t give them the credit they deserved.
In Part Two of our Women’s History Month series, Ashley sits down with Heidi to explore the extraordin...
Traditional Chinese Medicine: The Nobel Prize and the Ancient Map
Dr. S continues a series on ancient medical systems by exploring Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) through modern scientific parallels. The episode opens with Tu Youyou’s 2015 Nobel-winning discovery of artemisinin for malaria, traced to a 1,700-year-old text recommending Artemisia annua for fev...
Medicine 101 Podcast Episode: Beyond the White Coat – Purpose and Passion in Medicine
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Pandemic Medicine: A Conversation with Prof. Kathryn Ibata-Arens on Innovation, Biodiversity and Global Health
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Prof. Ibata-Arens is a political scientist...
What Two Thousand Years of Watching Knows
A drug passed its trials, was approved, and was pulled five years later.
In this episode, Dr. Jocelyn Michel, D.Ac-CHM, gets honest about why this one was hard to make, and about her own bias. She closes the week on the ladder of evidence by asking a question most research never does: who gets to...
