MDPI Tu Youyou Award: Honoring Excellence in Natural Products and Medicinal Chemistry

2024 Winners

Richard DiMarchiFor advancing peptide medicinal chemistry as applied to metabolic diseases and the transformative treatment of obesity.

Rolf MüllerFor advancing microbial natural products’ isolation and biosynthesis, industrial microbiology, and biotechnology.

About Tu Youyou Award

Professor Tu Youyou was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2015 for her groundbreaking work in the discovery of artemisinin, a drug that has significantly reduced the mortality rates for patients suffering from malaria. Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), which incorporate artemisinin and other antimalarial drugs, are now the standard treatment for malaria recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Tu Youyou's work has had a profound impact on global health, particularly in regions where malaria is endemic.

Tu Youyou Award Video Introduction

Prize

2024 Award Committee

Prof. Dr. A. Douglas Kinghorn

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Tu Youyou Award