# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tu-youyou
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:40:27.901Z

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description: "She pulled an anti-malarial compound from ancient Chinese texts, ran it through hundreds of experiments, and landed on artemisinin — a drug that has since saved millions of lives across four continents. The first Chinese woman to win a Nobel in science did it all without leaving the country."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Tu Youyou was born on 30 December 1930 and trained as a pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist entirely within China. Working through classical Chinese medical literature, she isolated artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, compounds that became a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine and transformed malaria treatment across South China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America. In 2011 she received the Lasker Award in clinical medicine, the first Chinese person to do so. Four years later she shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura — the first Chinese Nobel laureate in that field and the first female citizen of the People's Republic of China to win a Nobel in any category. In September 2019 she was awarded the Medal of the Republic, the highest honor the Chinese state can bestow.