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.
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IBM and University of Antioquia Cooperate to Seek Drug for Leishmaniasis Treatment
To use IBM’s World Community Grid for collapsing 100 years of research into just two; over two-million Leishmaniasis sufferers worldwide Tab navigation. MEDELLIN, Colombia – 13 Sep 2011: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and University of Antioquia’s Tropical Disease Study and Control Program (PECET) today announced a joint research project, Drug Search for Leishmaniasis, [...]
PECET to trial new vaccine against dengue
This is the third candidate vaccine currently being tested in the world.
Tropical diseases on flight
All over the Kite festival “One Sky One World”, it was presented an idea that envisions the use of kites as tool to promote a non-conventional public health work.
The water they drink.. the water you drink…
During 2010 heavy rain flooded the town of Palo de Agua in Cordoba, Colombia as it flooded low regions in the country. Over 2 million people were affected by floods and are in desperate need of help.
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.
Clinical Trials
Medical and Molecular Entomology
Medical Malacology & Trematodes
Molecular & Computational Biology
Patient Assistance
Tropical Viruses
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