18 Quotes by Tu Youyou

I was born on December 30, 1930 in Ningbo, a city on the east coast of China with a rich culture and over seven thousand years of history. Although it was a tumultuous age in China when I was a child, I was lucky enough to have completed a good education from primary to middle school.

I didn't get round to having children until I was 35, and then I wasn't around very much.

It is my dream that Chinese medicine will help us conquer life-threatening diseases worldwide and that people across the globe will enjoy its benefits for health promotion.

From our research experience in discovering artemisinin, we learned the strengths of both Chinese and Western medicine. There is great potential for future advances if these strengths can be fully integrated.

Chinese awards are always given to teams, but foreign awards are different.

I do not want fame.

My father worked in a bank while my mother looked after my four brothers and me, the only girl in our family.

No doubt, clinical practice in alleviating malaria symptoms utilizing Qinghao - inherited from traditional Chinese medical literature - provided some useful information leading to the discovery of artemisinin.

Malaria was one of the epidemic diseases with the most comprehensive records in traditional Chinese medical literature.