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Chinese, Irish, Japanese scientists share 2015 Nobel Prize for physiology, medicine

Source: Xinhua

Updated: 2015-10-06

Chinese, Irish, Japanese scientists share 2015 Nobel Prize for physiology, medicine
 
A screen shows the 2015 Nobel laureates for Physiology or Medicine including China's Tu Youyou, Japan's Satoshi Omura and Irish-born William Campbell (R to L) at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 5, 2015. China's Tu Youyou, Irish-born William Campbell and Japan's Satoshi Omura jointly won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute announced Monday. Tu won half of the prize "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria", while Campbell and Omura were jointly awarded the other half of the prize "for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites," said the assembly. (Xinhua/Rob Schoenbaum)

William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura discovered a new drug, Avermectin, the derivatives of which have radically lowered the incidence of river blindness and lymphatic filariasis, as well as showing efficacy against an expanding number of other parasitic diseases.

Chinese, Irish, Japanese scientists share 2015 Nobel Prize for physiology, medicine
 
Undated file photo shows Tu Youyou, a pharmacologist with the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, working to make artemisinin, a drug therapy for malaria, in 1980s. China's Tu Youyou, Irish-born William Campbell, and Japan's Satoshi Omura jointly won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute announced on Monday. Tu won half of the prize for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria. (Xinhua/Yang Wumin)

In an exclusive interview with Xinhua after the announcement, Juleen R. Zierath, chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine told Xinhua that Tu's "inspiration from traditional Chinese medicine" was important.

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