MANUEL ELKIN PATARROYO
MANUEL ELKIN PATARROYO (THREE
NOVIEMBRE 1946)
PORTAL 1: PERSONAL INFORMATION
Manuel Elkin Patarroyo (November 3, 1946) is a
Colombian immunologist. It is
recognized for developing a vaccine against
malaria without success so far, to disease transmitted by mosquitoes that
affects millions of people in the third world every year
He was born in the municipality of Ataco in the
department of Tolima in Colombia with 13 brothers. He finished his
baccalaureate studies at the José Max León school in Bogotá, Colombia. He
entered the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Colombia where he
obtained his degree in 1971. He subsequently made a specialization in
Immunology at Yale University. He also did postdoctoral studies at the
Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
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