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Yoshio Manaka

1911 – 1989

Surgeon-acupuncturist who built a biophysical model of meridian therapy.

Japan·Traditional Chinese Medicine · Medicine

Tenzin Choedrak

1922 – 2001

Personal physician to the Dalai Lama who preserved Tibetan medicine through 17 years of imprisonment.

China·Integrative Medicine · Medicine

Tu Youyou

b. 1930

Extracted artemisinin from ancient texts; millions of malaria deaths averted.

China·Medicine · ChemistryNobel

Ashok Vaidya

1940 – 2023

Pioneer of reverse pharmacology, translating classical formulas into clinical trials.

India·Ayurveda · Medicine

Shinya Yamanaka

b. 1962

Reprogrammed adult cells into stem cells, remaking regenerative medicine.

Japan·Medicine · BiologyNobel

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