He was awarded the UNESCO International Prize for Life Sciences Research

, Oct. 22 (Xinhua Hu Xue) - Headquartered in Paris, France, UNESCO announced on the 22nd the winners of the 2019 UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Life Science Research Award, a total of 3 winners, including slaughterers from China.
award is designed to reward outstanding life sciences research that improves the quality of human life, which can be conducted by individuals or institutions. This year is the fifth year of the award.
, a Professor of Traditional Chinese Medicine
and winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, has been awarded for his research on parasitic diseases, UNESCO said in a statement. Her new antimalarial drug, artemisinin, cured many Chinese patients in the 1980s. The World Health Organization has recommended artemisinin-based combination therapies as a first-line antimalarial treatment that has saved millions of lives, reduced malaria mortality in Africa by 66 per cent and malaria mortality among children under 5 years of age by 71 per cent.
, from the United States, has been awarded for his innovative work in the clinical application of biomass regeneration engineering and stem cell science, the U.S. Department of Medicine said in a statement. Another winner is Professor Kevin McGuigan of Ireland, who developed solar disinfection technology to help people in places like Africa and Asia get clean drinking water.
ceremony will be held in February 2020 at the Headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.