The academy chose Tu, a mid-career scientist who had studied both Chinese and western medicine and knew enough about both to realise it would not be an easy job. “By the time I started my search over 240,000 compounds had been screened in the US and China without any positive results,” she says. Soon after joining project 523, Tu was sent to Hainan province, a region in the far south long plagued by malaria, to observe the effects of the disease firsthand. As Tu’s husband had been banished to the countrysi
Source: Nobel Prize goes to modest woman who beat malaria for China | New Scientist