Artemisinin anti-malarial drugs in China

Artemisinin anti-malarial drugs in China

Discovered by Youyou Tu, one of the 2015 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine, together with many other Chinese scientists, artemisinin, artemether and artesunate, as well as other artemisinins, have brought the global anti-malarial treatment to a new era, saving millions of lives all around the world for the past 40 years. The discoveries of artemisinins were carried out beginning fro...

Editorial to the Feature article "Artemisinin anti-malarial drugs in China".

The winning of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by William C. Champbell, Satoshi Omura, and the Chinese scientist Youyou Tu marks their pioneering discoveries of novel therapeutic drugs to treat highly devastating parasitic diseases that mostly affect the world’s poorest populations, such as river blindness, lymphatic filariasis, and malaria. More appreciably, this is also the fir...

The history of anti-malarial drugs.

Artemisinin and its derivatives: a novel class of anti-malarial and anti-cancer agents.

In this tutorial review, an effort towards presentation of a comprehensive account of the recent developments on various kinds of artemisinin derivatives including artemisinin dimers, trimers and tetramers has been made and their efficacy towards malaria parasites and different cancer cells lines was compared with that of artemisinins, and various other anti-malarial and anti-cancer drugs. It i...

Note on Economy in the Use of Anti-Malarial Drugs