One of the oldest and deadliest diseases, malaria caused more than 627,000 deaths in 2020. A new treatment based on a drug initially developed to fight cancer has shown considerable promise.
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The usefulness of a drug is typically measured by its active ingredient. But traditional Chinese medicine shows that there’s more to healing than using the right chemical.
The drug partly responsible for more than halving the rate of malaria over the last 30 years and which won this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has a long history of use.
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Assistant Professor of Chinese, Emory University
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Professor at the Centre of Excellence for Pharmaceutical Sciences, North-West University
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Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Wesleyan University
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Assistant Professor of Physics, Rutgers University - Newark
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Assistant Professor of History, University at Buffalo
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PhD Candidate in Mathematics, Rutgers University
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Research director in parasitology, Inserm
