Tu Youyou, who discovered artemisinin, won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Tu Youyou has been engaged in the research of traditional Chinese medicine and the combination of Chinese and Western medicines for many years, and her outstanding contribution is the creation of a new type of antimalarial drug artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin.In 1972, she successfully extracted a colorless crystal with the molecular formula of C15H22O5, which was named artemisinin.In September 2011, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of artemisinin - a In September 2011, he was awarded the Lasker Prize and the GlaxoSmithKline China R&D Center's "Outstanding Achievement in Life Sciences Award" for his discovery of artemisinin, a drug used in the treatment of malaria, which has saved millions of lives around the world, especially in developing countries.

Tu Youyou is the first Chinese scientist to win a Nobel Prize in science and the first Chinese scientist to win a Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine. It is the highest award won by the Chinese medical profession so far, and also the highest award won by the achievements of Chinese medicine.

On the afternoon of December 7, 2015, Tu Youyou, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and a Chinese scientist, delivered a keynote speech in Chinese on "The Discovery of Artemisinin: A Gift of Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World" at the Karolinska Institutet of Medicine in Sweden.