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" I didn't get round to having children until I was 35, and then I wasn't around very much. "
Tu Youyou
Children
Having Children
Much
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" Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history. "
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Human
Been
Disease
" No doubt, clinical practice in alleviating malaria symptoms utilizing Qinghao - inherited from traditional Chinese medical literature - provided some useful information leading to the discovery of artemisinin. "
Tu Youyou
Medical
Information
Practice
" I saw a lot of children who were in the latest stages of malaria. Those kids died very quickly. "
Tu Youyou
Who
Stages
Malaria
" Project 523 was both a good and a bad thing. They held so many meetings, and there were so many competing centres, it was a real mess. Nearly every province had their own research centre, and they all asked me to share my research, which I did. But that's no way to do science. They wasted a lot of money and a lot of time. "
Tu Youyou
Time
Research
Money
" My father worked in a bank while my mother looked after my four brothers and me, the only girl in our family. "
Tu Youyou
Father
Girl
Me
" Artemisinin... is a true gift from old Chinese medicine. But this is not the only instance in which the wisdom of Chinese medicine has borne fruit. "
Tu Youyou
Wisdom
True
Old
" Chinese awards are always given to teams, but foreign awards are different. "
Tu Youyou
Awards
Chinese
Different
" After graduation from high school, I attended the university entrance examination, and fortunately, I was accepted by the Department of Pharmacy and became a student at the Medical School of Peking University. "
Tu Youyou
School
Medical
Graduation
" When you are entrusted with an assignment, you do your best. "
Tu Youyou
You
Best
Do Your Best
" From our research experience in discovering artemisinin, we learned the strengths of both Chinese and Western medicine. There is great potential for future advances if these strengths can be fully integrated. "
Tu Youyou
Research
Future
Experience
" My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients. "
Tu Youyou
Curiosity
New
Choice
" Every scientist dreams of doing something that can help the world. "
Tu Youyou
World
Help
Dreams
" Malaria was one of the epidemic diseases with the most comprehensive records in traditional Chinese medical literature. "
Tu Youyou
Most
Records
Medical
" The discovery of artemisinin was an example of successful collective efforts. "
Tu Youyou
Efforts
Discovery
Example
" It is my dream that Chinese medicine will help us conquer life-threatening diseases worldwide and that people across the globe will enjoy its benefits for health promotion. "
Tu Youyou
Enjoy
Health
Help
" I was born on December 30, 1930 in Ningbo, a city on the east coast of China with a rich culture and over seven thousand years of history. Although it was a tumultuous age in China when I was a child, I was lucky enough to have completed a good education from primary to middle school. "
Tu Youyou
Culture
Good
History