William Campbell, Satoshi Omura and Tu Youyou jointly won the 2017 Nobel Prize for medicine for their work against parasitic diseases, the award-giving body said on Monday.
今日,诺贝尔颁奖人士称,中国女科学家屠呦呦,日本教授大村智以及爱尔兰的医学研究者William C. Campbell因研发对抗寄生虫病的药材荣获2017年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。
Irish-born Campbell and Japanese Omura won half of the prize for discovering a new drug, avermectin, that has helped the battle against river blindness and lymphatic filariasis, as well as showing effectiveness against other parasitic diseases.
来自爱尔兰的Campbell和日本教授大村智因研制一种新型药材而获奖。这种名为“阿维菌素”的药材可用来对抗河盲(盘尾丝虫病)和淋巴丝虫病,并在对抗其他寄生虫病上效果显著。
The Chinese scientist Tu Youyou was awarded the other half of the prize for discovering artemisinin, a drug that has significantly reduced the mortality rates for patients suffering from malaria.
中国科学家屠呦呦因创制新型抗疟药而同时获奖,该药材的使用能够显著降低疟疾患者的死亡率。
"These two discoveries have provided humankind with powerful new means to combat these debilitating diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people annually," the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute said in a statement in awarding the prize of 8 million Swedish crowns ($960,000)."
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