Chinese Nobel laureate in medicine Tu YouYou, has attended a press conference for the Medicine Laureates at the Nobel Forum in Sweden.

The 2015 Nobel Prize laureate for Physiology or Medicine Tu Youyou attends a press conference at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, capital of Sweden, Dec. 6, 2015. Eighty-four-year-old Tu Youyou arrived in Sweden on Friday to collect China's first Nobel Prize in medicine for creating an anti-malarial drug that saved millions of people across the world. [Xinhua]

Tu, sitting together with the other two laureates, William Campbell and Satoshi Omura, called for joint efforts to combat malaria. Tu was awarded Nobel for discovering artemisinin, a drug that has slashed malaria deaths and become the mainstay of fighting the mosquito-borne disease.

Tu emphasized the value of Traditional Chinese Medicine, as this is where she found the source and inspiration in developing the anti-malaria drug. Tu, Campbell and Omura will be presented the Nobel award Thursday.

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