Three scientists – Tu Youyou, William Campbell and Satoshi Omura is a Nobel Prize winners for 2015 in the field of medicine and physiology. They were honored for fighting parasitic diseases.

William Campbell and Satoshi Omura for research and the creation of drugs to help fight diseases caused by nematodes, eg. River blindness or elephantiasis. Tu Youyou was awarded the Nobel Prize for developing methods to fight malaria.

Tu Youyou (85 l.) Comes from China. He is a professor at the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. This is the twelfth woman awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology.

ARZ, Reuters