Nobel Prize 2015 : Drug Therapy for River Blindness ,Lymphatic Filariasis & Malaria

The Nobel Prize of Medicine for 2015 was awarded for discovery of Avermectin , used for the treatment of River Blindness and Lymphatic Filiariasis to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura and to Youyou Tu for the discovery of Artemisinin, which is used for the treatment of Malaria.

Both the drugs are first-line therapies for the respective diseases and have saved millions.

If you fancy reading the Nobel-Prize Winning papers they are here , here and here. The first two papers are open access but the third is in Chinese and not available in public domain.