# Tu Youyou (@tu-youyou)

Tu Youyou was a pharmaceutical chemist and malaria researcher. Leading work in China's antimalarial program, Tu turned to historical medical literature and sweet wormwood in the search for a treatment.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Tu Youyou's public record._

## Topics

- [Artemisinin](/@tu-youyou/artemisinin.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [A Low-Temperature Extract](/@tu-youyou/a-low-temperature-extract.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Principal Contribution](/@tu-youyou/principal-contribution.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2015/tu/facts/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2015/advanced-information/
- blog: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "tu-youyou", "question": "…"}`.