Abstract
The 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology was awarded to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for their discovery of avermectins, and to Tu You You for her contribution to the discovery of artemisinin. The discovery and development of qinghaosu (artemisinin) as an antimalarial drug is a remarkable and convoluted tale.
Publication types
-
Historical Article
-
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
-
Africa
-
Antimalarials / history
-
Antimalarials / therapeutic use
-
Artemisia annua / chemistry
-
Artemisinins / history*
-
Artemisinins / therapeutic use*
-
Asia
-
History, 20th Century
-
History, 21st Century
-
Humans
-
Malaria / drug therapy*
-
Nobel Prize
-
Plant Extracts / therapeutic use
Substances
-
Antimalarials
-
Artemisinins
-
Plant Extracts
-
artemisinin