Tu Youyou

Nobel Lecture

Discovery of Artemisinin - A Gift from Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World

Youyou Tu delivered her Nobel Lecture on 7 December 2015 at Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. She was introduced by Professor Jan Andersson, Adjunct Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

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