Then and Now: Medicine Laureate Tu Youyou After Contracting Tuberculosis at 16, Tu ... - Latest Tweet by The Nobel Prize

Then and now: medicine laureate Tu Youyou

After contracting tuberculosis at 16, Tu decided to study medicine and find cures for diseases like the one that had afflicted her.

Tu found a new way to treat malaria with the active ingredient, artemisinin, saving millions of lives. pic.twitter.com/iPMgkqfF3V— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) December 30, 2022

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