Program For The Study And Control Of Tropical Diseases
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The Program for the Study and Control of Tropical Diseases - PECET of the University of Antioquia, is a multidisciplinary research group affiliated to the Faculty of Medicine and created on the 14th of April 1986, recognized by Colciencias as an Excellence Group.

We invite you to explore our presence on the web to learn about our work.

One researcher from the PECET was chosen in an international competition organized by the IDB

Alejandro Valencia Tobón has been selected for the exhibition “An Equal Start: Natural Sciences and Mathematics Education in Latin America and the Caribbean,” to be held in Washington, D.C. on June 7–11, 2010

Advance in Biosecurity

In Medellin the first Latin American Biosecurity Center regarding Genetically Modified Insect Vectors to Control Human Diseases.

First Interactive Course on Vector Biology and Control

The PECET will be the organizer of the First Interactive Course on Vector Biology and Control.

Dengue Update Symposium

24 and 25 June 2010, Hotel Porton, Medellin.

Hosted by: Program for the Study and Control of Tropical Diseases –PECET-, University of Antioquia, and University of Wisconsin.

University of Antioquia

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Advance in Biosecurity

In Medellin the first Latin American Biosecurity Center regarding Genetically Modified Insect Vectors to Control Human Diseases.

The Scopus Award 2009 stayed in the University of Antioquia

The Scopus/Colciencias Award is given yearly by the Elsevier Netherlands editorial house.

All our presentations

Find here a list with all our participations in academic events through the history of our program and all his members.

Congress Memoirs

Memoirs from the XIV Colombian Congress of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine and X PECET Symposium, October 8-11, 2010.