Author: Maria Zagorulya

Diseases caused by parasites have had devastating effects on the world’s poorest nations, and the drugs developed by these researchers have had immeasurable health benefits in these regions. This year the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for the development of therapies against parasitic diseases. One half of the prize was awarded to Youyou Tu "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria," and the other half to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura "for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites."