title: Artemisinin-A Gift from Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World (Nobel Lecture).
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100700, China.
authors.forename: Youyou
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tu
mesh_terms: D000962:Antimalarials / Q000737:chemistry / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D037621:Artemisinins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional
chemical_list: D000962:Antimalarials; D037621:Artemisinins; C031327:artemisinin
keywords: artemisinin; malaria; traditional Chinese medicine