Tu Youyou has been awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering artemisinin, a drug that has cut down malaria deaths and has become the mainstay of fighting the mosquito-borne diseases. She is China's first Nobel laureate in medicine. Photo: Reuters
Chinese Nobel medicine winner, 84, 'not really surprised'
Tu Youyou, the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel prize for medicine, said Tuesday she was "not really surprised" to be recognised after a remarkable career which saw her team test a breakthrough malaria drug on themselves during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.
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