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2011 Lasker Award

This is mainly for female scientists in the lab and particularly for Chinese female scientists. This year’s Lasker Award is given to Tu Youyou, a Senior Chinese female researcher, for her discovery of artemisinin which is used to treat malaria. Artemisinin is extracted from our precious traditional chinese medicine. The Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research goes to two scientists who study chaperonins.

Tu Youyou

Update: New review/commentary articles on this year’s Lasker Awards

  1. Rothman JE, Schekman R. Molecular mechanism of protein folding in the cell. Cell. 2011 Sep 16;146(6):851-4. Epub 2011 Sep 9. PubMed PMID: 21907398.
  2. Miller LH, Su X. Artemisinin: discovery from the chinese herbal garden. Cell. 2011 Sep 16;146(6):855-8. Epub 2011 Sep 9. PubMed PMID: 21907397.

 

 

This was written by Yuk Fai Leung. Posted on Monday, September 26, 2011, at 8:19 PM. Filed under Fai's sharing, Lasker Awards. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.