屠呦呦，女，汉族，中共党员，药学家。1930年12月30日生于浙江宁波，1951年考入北京大学，在医学院药学系生药专业学习。1955年，毕业于北京医学院（今北京大学医学部）。毕业后曾接受中医培训两年半，并一直在中国中医研究院（2005年更名为中国中医科学院）工作，期间前后晋升为硕士生导师、博士生导师。现为中国中医科学院的首席科学家，中国中医研究院终身研究员兼首席研究员，青蒿素研究开发中心主任，博士生导师，药学家，诺贝尔医学奖获得者，共和国勋章获得者。
Tu Youyou, female, Han nationality, member of the Communist Party of China, pharmacist. Born on December 30, 1930 in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, he was admitted to Peking University in 1951 and majored in pharmacognosy in the Department of pharmacy of medical college. In 1955, he graduated from Beijing Medical College (now the medical department of Peking University). After graduation, he received TCM training for two and a half years, and has been working in China Academy of TCM (renamed as Chinese Academy of TCM in 2005), during which he was promoted to master's supervisor and doctoral supervisor. He is now the chief scientist of the Chinese Academy of traditional Chinese medicine, lifelong researcher and chief researcher of the Chinese Academy of traditional Chinese medicine, director of artemisinin research and development center, doctoral supervisor, pharmacist, Nobel Prize winner in medicine, and medal winner of the Republic.
屠呦呦多年从事中药和中西药结合研究，突出贡献是创制新型抗疟药青蒿素和双氢青蒿素。1972年成功提取到了一种分子式为C15H22O5的无色结晶体，命名为青蒿素。2011年9月，因为发现青蒿素——一种用于治疗疟疾的药物，挽救了全球特别是发展中国家的数百万人的生命获得拉斯克奖和葛兰素史克中国研发中心“生命科学杰出成就奖”。2015年10月，屠呦呦获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖，理由是她发现了青蒿素，这种药品可以有效降低疟疾患者的死亡率。她成为首获科学类诺贝尔奖的中国人。
Tu youyou has been engaged in the research of combination of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine for many years, and his outstanding contribution is to create new antimalarial drugs artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin. In 1972, a colorless crystal with molecular formula of c15h22o5 was successfully extracted and named artemisinin. In September 2011, the discovery of artemisinin, a drug used to treat malaria, saved the lives of millions of people around the world, especially in developing countries, and won the Lasker prize and the "outstanding achievement award of life science" of GSK China research and development center. In October 2015, Tu youyou won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for her discovery of artemisinin, a drug that can effectively reduce the mortality of malaria patients. She became the first Chinese to win the Nobel Prize in science.
屠呦呦是第一位获得诺贝尔科学奖项的中国本土科学家、第一位获得诺贝尔生理医学奖的华人科学家。是中国医学界迄今为止获得的最高奖项，也是中医药成果获得的最高奖项。
Tu youyou is the first native Chinese scientist to win the Nobel Prize for science and the first Chinese scientist to win the Nobel Prize for physiological medicine. It is the highest award in the Chinese medical field so far, and also the highest award in the achievement of traditional Chinese medicine.
2017年1月9日，屠呦呦获得2016年度国家最高科学技术奖。2018年12月18日，党中央、国务院授予屠呦呦同志改革先锋称号，颁授改革先锋奖章。 2019年5月，入选福布斯中国科技50女性榜单。
On January 9, 2017, Tu youyou won the 2016 national highest science and technology award. On December 18, 2018, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council awarded Comrade Tu youyou the title of reform pioneer and the medal of reform pioneer. In May 2019, she was selected into Forbes China Science and technology 50 women list.
