Women Scientists; Youyou Tu, Franoise Barr-Sinoussi, Carol W. Greider And Elizabeth H. Blackburn, May-Britt Moser

NameInstitution AffiliationCourse CodeInstructor NameDateWomen ScientistsAt the age of 39 years, Youyou Tu was appointed by the Chinese government to lead the 1969 project 523 to research the effects of malaria in Hainan Island, Southern China. During her expeditions, she was devastated by the rising death toll caused by malaria in the rainforest. After returning to Beijing, her team evaluated traditional Chinese medicinal texts where they stumbled upon writings on Sweet wormwood plant used to treat a symptom of malaria called intermittent fevers. Youyou and two of her colleagues tested the compound's effectiveness on themselves before testing on 21 patients from Hainan province. Everyone recovered, and the active ingredient, Artemisinin, was revealed to the world. Despite its validity, it took two decades for the WHO to recommend Artemisinin, a gift bestowed by traditional Chinese medicine, as the first defense against malaria. Youyou didn't want fame, but she accepted the 2015 Physiology Nobel Prize for discovering Artemisinin.In her early neuroscientist years, May-Britt Moser was persistent in understanding brain functioning on a cellular level. Around 1980, May-Britt joined Oslo University to study psychology, where she met Edvard Moser. In 1995, the couple earned their PhDs