What's wrong with the world now?
Tu Youyou developed artemisinin , and tried the medicine with her own hands.
received a huge reward, but was questioned.
What do you think of this?
What is artemisinin?
Artemisinin is the best drug for treating malaria resistance. It is a combination therapy mainly based on artemisinin drugs. It is also the most effective and important means to treat malaria at present.
At that time, the Japanese army broke into our country with a large number of plague bacillus , and raged Chinese compatriots on our land and even poisoned them.
caused hundreds of people to be infected with plague , causing pain and even their bodies to rot day by day.
In the 1960s, the global malaria epidemic was difficult to control.
1969, Tu Youyou, who was 39 years old at the time, began to participate in the National Malaria Prevention and Control Drug Research Project code-named "523". When the
task came, there was no good medicine for malaria, and it was very prevalent. Can
go back?
not possible.
Hundreds of failures in three years.
Until one day, Tu Youyou looked up the classics and saw a sentence in "Ge Hong's elbow preparations": "Hold the Artemisia annua , use two liters of water to stain the juice, and take it all. "
's eyes stopped at the three words "wrinkle juice".
Tu Youyou believes that high temperature may damage the effective ingredients of Artemisia annua, thereby affecting the efficacy.
So she lowered the extraction temperature, and was extracted from ethanol to ether with a lower boiling point.
results found that the inhibition rate of extracts from the ether extraction method for both rat malaria and monkey malaria reached 100%!
and even Tu Youyou and team members Lang Linfu and Yue Fengxian tried the medicine, and finally proved that artemisinin was safe.
What kind of existence does artemisinin exist?
Some people say that "Artemisinin is a gift from traditional Chinese medicine to the world." Artemisininin has saved the lives of millions of people around the world in the 50 years since its inception!
Yes, that's right.
saved countless lives, but after Tu Youyou became famous, he instantly pushed him to the forefront.
The reason is that - Tu Youyou was awarded a bonus of $250,000 to , and the controversy also followed.
Some people even say: is "unfair, unreasonable, and inconsistent with history."
What's going on?
Many people believe that this honor belongs to all scientific research groups involved in the research and development. is ranked sixth in the list of artemisinin projects published by Chinese Academy of Sciences .
Even if personal honor comes to receive it, it seems that Tu Youyou should not have come forward to receive it.
But we should also know that Nobel Prize is generally awarded to individuals, and their selection criteria for are different from those in China. She won the award because she was recognized by everyone.
And the key to this award is mainly to look at three aspects:
First, who brought artemisinin to the 523 project team first;
Second, who extracted artemisinin with 100% inhibitory power;
Third, who did the first clinical experiment.
From this we can see that she is enough to win this award. In an interview, also smiled and said, "This little money is not enough to buy half a living room."
Of course, she did not use the money to improve her life, but continued to use it in medical research.
But do you know?
Tu Youyou, who saved countless lives, was recognized by the whole world, but not by Chinese academicians.
I believe many people don’t understand it, why is this?
According to relevant people's analysis, there are 3 most likely reasons:
First of all, there is no study abroad experience;
When we observe her personal introduction, we will find that there is almost no study abroad experience, which may also become a restrictive condition.Actually, I don't agree with this.
Secondly, there are insufficient publications in international journals;
In the past era of "paper first", it is difficult to get a high score without papers as a selection support.
But what I want to say is that I have focused on scientific research, so I don’t have time to write any papers. More results have been developed by using this time to write papers.
Finally, she is not good at socializing;
means that she spends her whole life on scientific research, not on interpersonal relationships.
In fact, everyone knows the events that have occurred in recent years.
When a rule becomes rigid, some people will appear in order to seek honor and interests.
Maybe someone tried to break this rule, but it was like throwing a stone in the lake and eventually sank to the bottom of the lake. Although
can cause a little trouble, it does not work much.
But for Tu Youyou, this is nothing, she doesn't rely on academicians for her.
Through the above we can know that she just wants to do a good job in scientific research and benefit mankind!
Of course, it is not only her, but many scientists also think so.
So what is this?
This is the real star, worthy of the admiration and respect of each of us! They do not seek fame and fortune, but only benefit mankind!
