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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…