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《屠呦呦：青蒿素是中医药献给世界的礼物》

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推荐理由：青蒿素类抗疟药，是举国体制的成果、集体主义的结晶，也是自主创新的杰作。屠呦呦常强调，荣誉，属于科研团队中的每一个人，属于中国科学家群体。在第五个全国科技工作者日前夕，年过九旬的中国中医科学院首席科学家屠呦呦写下了寄语：科技创新，强国兴邦。她也用一辈子践行着这8个字。

屠呦呦：青蒿素是中医药献给世界的礼物

Tu Youyou: Artemisinin Is a Gift of Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World

2015年10月5日，瑞典卡罗琳医学院宣布将诺贝尔生理学或医学奖授予屠呦呦以及另外两名科学家，以表彰他们在寄生虫疾病治疗研究方面取得的成就。这是中国医学界迄今为止获得的最高奖项，也是中医药成果获得的最高奖项。

On October 5, 2015, Karolinska Institute of Sweden announced that the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine would be awarded to Tu Youyou and two other scientists in recognition of their achievements in the treatment of parasitic diseases. This is the highest award so far wonby the Chinese medical community and alsothe highest award for achievements in traditionalChinese medicine.

20世纪60年代，氯喹抗疟失效、人类饱受疟疾之害，中药研究所研究实习员屠呦呦接受了国家疟疾防治项目“523”办公室艰巨的抗疟研究任务，从此与中药抗疟结下不解之缘。

In the 1960s, chloroquine failed to fight against malaria and humans suffered from malaria. Tu Youyou, a research intern at the Institute of TraditionalChinese Materia Medica, accepted the arduous task of antimalarial research by the “523” Office of the National Malaria Control Project. Since then, she has forged an indissoluble bond with thetraditional Chinese medicine anti-malarial.

当时的科研设备比较陈旧，科研水平也无法达到国际一流水平，不少人认为这个任务难以完成。只有屠呦呦坚定地说:“没有行不行，只有肯不肯坚持。”

At that time, the scientific research equipment was relatively outdated, and the quality of scientific research could not reach the world-class level. Many people thought that this task was difficult to complete. Only Tu Youyou firmly said: “No way, only if you are willing or not to persevere.”

整理中医药典籍、走访名老中医，她汇集了640余种治疗疟疾的中药单秘验方。在青蒿提取物实验药效不稳定的情况下，出自东晋葛洪《肘后备急方》中对青蒿截疟的记载——“青蒿一握，以水二升渍，绞取汁，尽服之。”给了屠呦呦新的灵感。

Sorting out traditional Chinese medicine classics and visiting famous and old Chinese doctors, she collected more than 640 secret prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of malaria. In the case of unstable experimental efficacy of Artemisia extract, Tu Youyou got new inspiration from Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription by Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, which recorded that Artemisia is held in one hand, soaked with two liters of water, squeezed out the juice, and take it all.

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通过改用低沸点溶剂的提取方法，富集青蒿的抗疟组分，屠呦呦团队最终于1972年发现青蒿素。据世卫组织不完全统计，青蒿素作为一线抗疟药物，在全世界已挽救数百万人生命，每年治疗患者数亿人。

By switching to a low-boiling solvent extraction method to enrich the antimalarial components of Artemisia annua, Tu Youyou’s team finally discovered artemisinin in 1972. According to incomplete statistics from WHO, as a first-line antimalarial medicine, artemisinin has saved millions of lives worldwide and treats hundreds of millions of patients every year.

在发现青蒿素后，屠呦呦继续深入研究以青蒿素为核心的抗疟药物，在“传统中医药科研论著走出去”等方面取得新进展，获得世界卫生组织和国内外权威专家的高度认可。

After discovering artemisinin, Tu Youyou continued to conduct in-depth research on antimalarial medicine with artemisinin as the core, and made new progress in “traditional Chinese medicine research works going out”, and was highly recognized by the World Health Organization and authoritative experts at home and abroad.