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Works that got Nobel Prize for Medicine 2015 Part 2

Tu Youyou is a Chinese medical scientist, chemist and pharmacist who shared the Nobel Prize for medicine-2015 with Satoshi Omura and William.C.Campbell. The prize was awarded for her significant works on novel therapy against malaria; specifically, for her work on a drug called Artemisinin and its derivatives. What is Artemisinin? It is a sesquiterpene lactone drug that contains an unusual…

Works that got nobel prize for medicine 2015 part 1

William Campbell and Satoshi Omura shared the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for the year 2015 for their discoveries of novel therapy against infections caused by round worm parasites. Ivermectin is the drug which is a dihydro derivative of avermectin. Satoshi Omura isolated a bacteria called as Streptomyces avermitis isolated from Japanese soil at Kitasato institute Tokyo. He found that…