From branch to bedside: Youyou Tu is awarded the 2011 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for discovering artemisinin as a treatment for malaria

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 121, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2768-3773

  Neill, Ushma S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; BENFLUMETOL; CHLOROQUINE; MEFLOQUINE; NAPHTHOQUINE; PYRIMETHAMINE PLUS SULFADOXINE; PYRONARIDINE; QUININE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE;

ANOPHELES; ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; APICOMPLEXAN LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTEMISIA ANNUA; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CHINESE MEDICINE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PARSLEY; PATHOGENESIS; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROSEMARY; SPOROZOITE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHINA; HISTORY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

ANIMALS; ARTEMISININS; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CHINA; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MALARIA; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 80053421474     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/jci60887     Document Type: Note

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