Artemisinin-A Gift from Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World (Nobel Lecture)

Malaria has long been a devastating and life‐threatening global epidemic disease in human history. Artemisinin, the active substance against malaria, was first isolated and tested in the 1970s in China. The important role played by traditional Chinese medicine in the discovery of artemisinin is desc...

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Published in:Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2016-08, Vol.55 (35), p.10210-10226
Main Author: Tu, Youyou
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acupuncture
Artemisinin
Chinese medicine
Epidemics
Malaria
Medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine
Vector-borne diseases
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Summary:Malaria has long been a devastating and life‐threatening global epidemic disease in human history. Artemisinin, the active substance against malaria, was first isolated and tested in the 1970s in China. The important role played by traditional Chinese medicine in the discovery of artemisinin is described by Y. Tu in her Nobel Lecture.
ISSN:1433-7851
1521-3773
DOI:10.1002/anie.201601967