• TOP 3: MANUEL ELKIN PATARROYO
He was born
March 11, 1946 is a Colombian pathologist who made the world's first attempt of
synthetic vaccine for malaria, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes that affects
millions of people in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of the
Americas, Asia, and Africa.
The vaccine candidate, first developed in
1987, was evaluated in clinical trials carried out by the WHO in Gambia,
Tanzania and Thailand, and had mixed results. In 2009, a comprehensive Cochrane
review assessed the SPf66 as being not efficacious in Africa and Asia, and as
having a low but statistically significant efficacy of 28% in South America.
Today, after more than 33 years of research, the SPf66 malaria vaccine is not
recommended for prophylaxis of malaria and is listed as "inactive" by
the WHO.
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