Colegio manuel elkin patarroyo biography in english

The vaccine candidate, first developed in in Colombia, was evaluated in clinical trials carried out by the WHO in Gambia , Tanzania and Thailand , and had mixed results.

Manuel Patarroyo was a Colombian immunologist and researcher who studied medicine in Colombia and the United States.

Patarroyo was born in Ataco , Tolima , Colombia on November 3, Patarroyo started experimenting with animals in the s, paying for wild monkeys captured in the Amazonian rainforest generating illegal traffic carried on by indigenous people who hunt the elusive monkeys for sale. For , the alleged illegal trade in this animal species is under investigation by the Colombian government against the FIDIC.

In the Administrative Court of Cundinamarca in Colombia revoked the permits to experiment with 4, night monkeys Aotus trivirgatus for Patarroyo's jungle laboratory [ 9 ] but in March the decision was reversed and the experiments with primates were allowed to continue. In April , Patarroyo was awarded the honorary doctorate from the Ricardo Palma University, in whose official ceremony there was a controversy against defenders of the biodiversity of Peruvian wildlife.

He, using in its clinical trials species of green-tailed monkeys Aotus nancymaae, using more than specimens, which returned to its wild state without spleen, deprived of the immune system, [ 10 ] reason why it was recriminated in the mentioned act.

Manuel Elkin Patarroyo.

In November a Colombian journalistic investigation revealed the traffic and the environmental impact of Patarroyo's investigation. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Colombian scientist —