Physical Description
He is
Manuel Elkin Patarroyo.
Dr. Manuel
Elkin works in a laboratory. He is very friendly but very professional. He loves
his profession, he is passionate about medicine. He is elderly but healthy. He
has a white skin and is medium height. He has gray-haired and has brown eyes. Usually,
he is smiling. In this picture he is wearing a purple sweater and under it he is
wearing a white bottom shirt. He is wearing black slacks with black shoes. His
style is classic and elegant in other situations.
Personal Information
Age: 71 years old (Ataco, Tolima, 3th, November of 1949)
Nationality: Colombian
Place of birth: Born in the municipality of Ataco in the department of
Tolima (Colombia)
Occupation: Scientific
First days and studies
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.That year he married pediatrician María Cristina
Gutiérrez, with whom he had three children, two of whom, also work in medicine.
Between 1986 and 1988 the vaccine against malaria was
created by Manuel Elkin Patarroyo and successfully tested in a colony of
monkeys from the Amazon region, the Aotus Trivirgatus
and in a group of
young volunteer high school graduates who performed their military service.
Since childhood Patarroyo felt admiration for the
figure of Louis Pasteur and
a great interest in immunology and virology, so that his professional career
was oriented to research in various national and foreign centers, particularly
American and Swedish.
In 1983, his team began work on malaria, and
immediately achieved a great achievement: obtaining, in 1984, a synthetic
vaccine (SPF-66) against the disease, which would later be refined to reach
powerful levels of effectiveness.
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