Manuel Elkin Patarroyo

Manuel Elkin Patarroyo Murillo (November 3, 1946 – January 9, 2025)Fundación Príncipe de Asturias. Manuel Elkin Patarroyo  (Spanish). Premiados, Investigación Científica y Técnica, 1994. was a Colombian academic, immunologist and pathologist. He was known for making the world's first attempt to create a synthetic vaccine against the protozoal parasite Plasmodium falciparum, the cause of severe malaria.Holloway, M. (1996) Profile: Manuel Elkin Patarroyo – The Man Who Would Conquer Malaria, Scientific American 275(6), 52-56. He worked at the Hospital San Juan de Dios and National University of Colombia. 

Patarroyo was a recipient of the TWAS Prize (1998). He was born in Ataco, Colombia.

Pararroyo died on January 9, 2025 in Bogotá, Colombia at the age of 78.Murió el científico colombiano Manuel Elkin Patarroyo 

References

Other websites
 Race for Malaria Money
 Scientists Herald Malaria Breakthrough
 Guardian Unlimited: Scientist whose dream of beating disease came true
 Tables of Malaria Vaccine Projects

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