Tu Youyou is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist(药学家) and educator. She is best known for discovering artemisinin(青蒿素) which {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(use) to treat malaria(疟疾) and has saved {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(million) of lives. She won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in October 2015. She is the {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(one) Chinese woman to win this prize.

    Tu was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China {#blank#}4{#/blank#} December 30^th, 1930. From 1951 to 1955, she attended Peking University Medical School. Later, Tu was trained for two and a half {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(year) in traditional Chinese medicine. Now she is the Chief Scientist in the Academy(研究院) of Chinese Medicine in Beijing.

    Tu has some health problems as a result of working poor conditions for {#blank#}6{#/blank#}long time. But she is still doing research. When Tu finally received Nobel Prize for her achievements, she said the success {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(belong) to her team, which did research in those poor conditions. And she thinks artemisinin is a gift from China and from {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(tradition) Chinese medicine to the world, to the millions and millions of people,{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (especial) poor children, all over the world who have malaria.

    Tu Youyou is already 87 years old,{#blank#}10{#/blank#}she says she won't stop studying or working.