Pharmacologist Tu Youyou has become the first scientist on the mainland to win America's respected Lasker Award for her discovery of a new approach to malaria treatment.
藥學家屠呦呦由于青蒿素的發(fā)現和在治療瘧疾方面的杰出貢獻，成為中國大陸第一個贏得拉斯克獎醫(yī)學獎的科學家。

The Lasker Awards are given annually to people who have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure and prevention of human diseases since 1945.
自1945年以來拉斯克醫(yī)學獎每年頒給在研究、診斷、治療和預防人類疾病方面做出卓越貢獻的人。

Lasker Awards are known as "America's Nobels" for their knack of gaining future recognition by the Nobel committee. In the last two decades, 28 Lasker laureates have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize, and 80 since 1945.
該獎項的獲獎者在未來贏得諾貝爾獎的幾率很大，因此該獎被譽為“美國的諾貝爾獎”。在過去的20年中，28位Lasker的獲獎者獲得了諾貝爾獎，自該獎設立的1945年以來，共有80位獲獎者最終摘得諾貝爾桂冠。