What new breakthroughs have Tu Youyou's team achieved in artemisinin resistance and other research?

It's no surprise that Tu Youyou is China's first Nobel Prize winner in medicine. She is China's first Nobel Prize winner in medicine, and the breakthroughs made by Tu Youyou's team in the study of artemisinin resistance have made great contributions to the world's anti-malaria cause. The director of the WHO Malaria Program once said that the number of malaria patients cured by artemisinin-based combination therapies has reached several billion, and the anti-malaria scientific research carried out by Tu Youyou's team has played an invaluable role in making the world realize China's scientific research power.

I. Tu Youyou's team has made new breakthroughs in many aspects

After more than three years of research, Tu Youyou's team has made new breakthroughs in the area of? The cause of drug resistance



The new treatment program includes: firstly, extending the duration of treatment from three days to five or seven days; and secondly, replacing the drug-resistant adjuvant drugs in the artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT).

Tu Youyou's team's significant research results were published in the top international medical journals, triggering the attention of the industry, which has also become an important manifestation of the Chinese medicine culture going out.

II. Tu Youyou's team found that artemisinin is effective in the treatment of lupus erythematosus

Artemisinin is not only able to be used to deal with malaria, but Tu Youyou's team also found another important use of artemisinin, which is that dihydroartemisinin is effective in the treatment of lupus erythematosus, which is characterized by a high degree of variability. According to clinical trials, artemisinin is more than 80% effective in systemic lupus erythematosus and more than 90% effective in discoid lupus erythematosus, which is a very encouraging result for researchers.

3. Tu Youyou's team builds a bridge between traditional medicine and modern medicine

Besides the breakthroughs in scientific research, another important contribution of Tu Youyou's team is to build a bridge between traditional medicine and modern medicine, and to help Chinese medicine go out of the country and into the world, and we hope that more and more scientists from our country will come to the forefront of the world field in the future, so that we can compete with our country.