In 2005, he won the Lasker Award, the highesthonor in American medicine.
In 1977, when the artemisinin paper waspublished, it was influenced by China at thattime, SO it was necessary to hide its name.
Starting with traditional Chinese herbal medicines, artemisinin for malaria treatmentwas successfully extracted.
In 2015, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology orMedicine.