2015年,中国药学家屠呦呦获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖,她是第一位获得诺贝尔科学奖项的中国本土科学家、第一位获得诺贝尔生理医学奖的华人科学家。这是中国医学界迄今为止获得的最高奖项,也是中医药成果目前获得的最高奖项。其获奖理由为:屠呦呦在1972年从植物黄花蒿中提取出、后被命名为青蒿素的物质,其广泛应用于治疟抗疟的药后,挽救了全世界特别是发展中国家数百万人的生命。与青蒿如今的声名远播相比,同为菊科蒿属、同可以治 In 2015, Chinese chemist Tu Yo Yo won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She was the first Chinese indigenous scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Science and the first Chinese scientist to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. This is the highest award won by the Chinese medical community so far and the highest award currently won by Chinese medicine. The award-winning reasons are as follows: Tu Yo Yo was extracted from plant Artemisia annua in 1972 and later named as Artemisinin, which is widely used in the treatment of malaria and anti-malaria drugs, which has saved the world, especially the number of developing countries Millions of lives. With Artemisia today’s reputation far compared with the same as Artemisia, can cure