中国女科学家屠呦呦离诺奖一步之遥

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.

药学家屠呦呦由于青蒿素的发现和在治疗疟疾方面的杰出贡献，成为中国大陆第一个赢得拉斯克奖医学奖的科学家。

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年以来拉斯克医学奖每年颁给在研究、诊断、治疗和预防人类疾病方面做出卓越贡献的人。

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.

该奖项的获奖者在未来赢得诺贝尔奖的几率很大，因此该奖被誉为“美国的诺贝尔奖”。在过去的20年中，28位Lasker的获奖者获得了诺贝尔奖，自该奖设立的1945年以来，共有80位获奖者最终摘得诺贝尔桂冠。