Symposium hails Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist

Chinese pharmacologist Tu Youyou, 84, speaks during a symposium in Beijing on Thursday. Tu jointly won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine along with Irish-born William Campbell and Japan's Satoshi Omura, the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute announced.

The symposium in Beijing celebrated Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist Tu.[Photo by Zhu Xingxin/Asianewsphoto]

Tu is congratulated at the meeting in Beijing.[Photo by Zhu Xingxin/Asianewsphoto]

Tu won her part of the prize for discoveries related to a novel therapy against malaria. It is China's first Nobel Prize in Medicine.[Photo by Zhu Xingxin/Asianewsphoto]

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