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(xué)家屠呦呦由于青蒿素的發(fā)現(xiàn)和在治療瘧疾方面的杰出貢獻(xiàn)，成為中國(guó)大陸第一個(gè)贏得拉斯克獎(jiǎng)醫(yī)學(xué)獎(jiǎng)的科學(xué)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(lái)拉斯克醫(yī)學(xué)獎(jiǎng)每年頒給在研究、診斷、治療和預(yù)防人類(lèi)疾病方面做出卓越貢獻(xiàn)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(jiǎng)項(xiàng)的獲獎(jiǎng)?wù)咴谖磥?lái)贏得諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)的幾率很大，因此該獎(jiǎng)被譽(yù)為“美國(guó)的諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)”。在過(guò)去的20年中，28位Lasker的獲獎(jiǎng)?wù)攉@得了諾貝爾獎(jiǎng)，自該獎(jiǎng)設(shè)立的1945年以來(lái)，共有80位獲獎(jiǎng)?wù)咦罱K摘得諾貝爾桂冠。