Anti-parasite drugs sweep Nobel prize in medicine 2015
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_Chinese pharmacologist #Youyou_Tu developed key antimalarial drug #artemisinin._
Lan Xue, an innovation-studies specialist at Tsinghua University in Beijing, says that he has been inundated with messages about the prize. “People will be celebrating, but I hope they also take a sober look, because there are lots of things to learn from this award,” he says.
Young scientists in China today are told to go overseas to do good research and to churn out publications in internationally recognized journals, Xue notes. Yet Tu has never worked outside China, and has not racked up major publications. “Tu doesn’t fit into any of the trends today, and yet she gets the Nobel because of the originality of her work. It couldn’t have been a better choice in terms of the lessons it offers Chinese scientists,” Xue says.