22日,总部位于法国巴黎的联合国教科文组织公布2019年度联合国教科文组织-赤道几内亚国际生命科学研究奖(UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences)获奖名单,共3人获奖,其中包括来自中国的屠呦呦。 联合国教科文组织在公告中说,中国中医科学院教授、2015年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖获得者屠呦呦,因其在寄生虫疾病方面的研究获奖。她发现的全新抗疟疾药物青蒿素在20世纪80年代治愈了许多中国病人。
Prof. Youyou Tuof theChinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, laureate of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine, is recognized for her research into parasitic diseases. She discovered an entirely new anti-malarial treatment, artemisinin, which made possible the treatment of thousands of patients in China in the 1980s.
Since the turn of the century, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been recommending artemisinin-based combination therapies as the first-line treatment for malaria. These combination treatments have saved 6.2 million lives reducing malaria mortality in Africa by 66%, and by 71% among children under 5 years of age.
联合国教科文组织官网称,该奖项旨在奖励提高人类生活质量的杰出生命科学研究。今年是该奖项的第五届。
This is the fifth edition of the Prize, which rewards outstanding scientific research projects in the life sciences that have led to an improvement in the quality of human life.
If you measure greatness in termsofnumber of human lives saved,then there is no doubt at all that Tu Youyou is one of the greatest scientists of all time.
“当我们提及杰出科学人物时,毫无疑问,屠呦呦一定会在其中。”
When it comes to science icons,there is no doubt at all Tu Youyou is right up there.
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其实这个奖,跟第一个一样,真的是集体的功劳。不过屠领导下,改进关键提取技术并成功应用,的确是非常有功劳的。
好象得奖的人可以提名下一次预先名单,希望她能多多提名华人。