Tu Youyou and the Discovery of Artemisinin: 2015 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

by Yi Rao, Runhong Li, Daqing Zhang

Nobel laureate Tu Youyou won the 2015 prize for Medicine/Physiology for the discovery of artemisinin, a drug therapy for malaria that has saved millions across the globe.This book traces the path of discovery beginning with Chairman Mao's 1964 instruction to Chinese researchers to find a cure for malaria, a disease that plagued the military and civilians alike in endemic regions. It chronicles the years of painstaking research to find effective anti-malarial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9813109890
• ISBN13: 9789813109896
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"