Tu Youyou

My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.

The discovery of artemisinin was an example of successful collective efforts.

No doubt, clinical practice in alleviating malaria symptoms utilizing Qinghao - inherited from traditional Chinese medical literature - provided some useful information leading to the discovery of artemisinin.

Chinese awards are always given to teams, but foreign awards are different.

When you are entrusted with an assignment, you do your best.

It is my dream that Chinese medicine will help us conquer life-threatening diseases worldwide and that people across the globe will enjoy its benefits for health promotion.

Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.

From our research experience in discovering artemisinin, we learned the strengths of both Chinese and Western medicine. There is great potential for future advances if these strengths can be fully integrated.

Every scientist dreams of doing something that can help the world.

Malaria was one of the epidemic diseases with the most comprehensive records in traditional Chinese medical literature.

Artemisinin... is a true gift from old Chinese medicine. But this is not the only instance in which the wisdom of Chinese medicine has borne fruit.

I saw a lot of children who were in the latest stages of malaria. Those kids died very quickly.