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1st Ld: Chinese premier congratulates Tu Youyou on winning Nobel Prize for medicine

Xinhua, October 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

Premier Li Keqiang on Monday congratulated herbal expert Tu Youyou on winning the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, the first Chinese woman national to win a Nobel prize in science.

"Tu's winning the prize signifies China's prosperity and progress in scientific and technological field, marks a great contribution of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to the cause of human health, and showcases China's growing strengths and rising international standing," Li said in a congratulatory letter.

Tu, born in 1930, shared the prize with Irish-born William Campbell and Japan's Satoshi Omura for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria, the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute announced Monday.

The pharmacologist discovered Artemisinin, a drug that has significantly reduced the mortality rates for patients suffering from malaria. Endi