Tu Youyou’s 2015 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine honors her discovery of artemisinin, an antimalarial compound derived from traditional Chinese medicine that has saved over 10 million lives since 2000. Drawing from ancient texts, she extracted the active ingredient with a low-temperature method, achieving a 100% cure rate in early trials. This life-saving impact is 30% faster than the average antimalarial drug development process. Compared to #10’s peers, her work is cheaper than the typical rival treatment, costing $0.50 per dose and reducing global malaria mortality by 47% between 2000 and 2015.
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