Abstract
The Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2015 was awarded to researchers William C. Campbell, Satoshi Omura, and You You Tu. The first two by the discovery of the natural product avermictins and its derivative ivermectin, which greatly diminishes the incidence of Onchocerciasis (known as river blindness) and lymphatic Filaria (known as elephantiasis), and to the researcher Youyou Tu …