Who's Tu Youyou?

Tu Youyou, female, 1930, native of Ningbo, Zhejiang, Han nationality, party member, party member, CPC, pharmacist.

195 1, admitted to the Department of Pharmacy of Peking University. ?

1955 graduated from Beijing Medical College (now peking university health science center). After graduation, he received Chinese medicine training for two and a half years, and has been working in China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (renamed China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2005), during which he was promoted to master tutor and doctoral tutor. At present, he is the chief scientist, lifelong researcher and chief researcher of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, director of artemisinin research and development center, doctoral tutor and winner of the Republic Medal.

Character experience

From 1969 to 1, the research group led by Tu Youyou started with the systematic collection of medical books, materia medica and folk prescriptions. On the basis of collecting more than 2,000 prescriptions, he compiled a collection of anti-malaria prescriptions with 640 kinds of drugs as the main ones, and conducted experimental research on more than 200 kinds of Chinese medicines. After more than 380 failures, he used modern medicine and methods to analyze, improve and refine.