Tu Youyou was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2015 for her research, led to the discovery of artemisinin. Artemisinin (save) a large number of lives since it was discovered. After (graduate) from university, Tu Youyou worked at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In 1967, Tu Youyou (choose) as a researcher of a team of scientists with purpose of discovering a new treatment for malaria. They(evaluate) 280. 000 plants and tested 380 distinct ancient Chinese medical(treat). One medical text suggested using the extract from sweet wormwood to treat a fever. Tu Youyou analyzed the medical texts again, and chance, she found one sentence suggesting a different way. Soon she found a substance that worked by(boil) the sweet wormwood at a lower temperature. The team's hard work (event) paid off in 1971.
Tu Youyou thought the discovery of artemisinin was a team effort and the Nobel Prize was an honor for China's scientific research and Chinese medicine to be spread around the world.
