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Tu Youyou

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Tu Youyou

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Also known as Youyou Tu, Tú Yōuyōu

Chinese medical scientist

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Tu Youyou is a researcher born on December 30, 1930. She has been recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection and the Nobel Medicine collection. Her work is associated with the Nobel Prize, for which she has a count of one.

In terms of published works, Tu Youyou has a total of five works. One specific work is titled "Tu Youyou zhuan," for which she is listed as an author in the "Tu Youyou zhuan" bian xie zu capacity. This title appears in Open Library records.

Her profile is referenced by 448 other encyclopedia articles. A Commons category exists under the name "Tu Youyou."

Synthesized by Vinony from 11 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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Works
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  • Tu Youyou zhuan

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study

    · 2020 · cited 21,451x

  2. Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia

    · 2020 · cited 11,581x

  3. Aggregated Residual Transformations for Deep Neural Networks

    · 2017 · cited 8,751x

  4. The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

    · 2013 · cited 8,580x

  5. Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC

    · 2012 · cited 6,660x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2015

    “for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria”

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Encyclopedic overview

Tu Youyou (Chinese: 屠呦呦; pinyin: Tú Yōuyōu; born 30 December 1930) is a Nobel Prize-winning Chinese malariologist and pharmaceutical chemist. 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. Tu is the first Chinese Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine and the first female citizen of the People's Republic of China to receive a Nobel Prize in any category. She is also the first Chinese person to receive the Lasker Award. Tu was born, educated and carried out her research exclusively in China.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tu Youyou” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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