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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.

Virtual Docking for Drug Discovery

August 31 – September 3, 2010

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.

First interactive course on vector biology and control

PECET will host the First interactive course on vector biology and control.

The Scopus Award 2009 stayed in the University of Antioquia

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

Training Center on Leishmaniasis Vectors

PECET, training center in the study and identification of Leishmaniasis Vectors for Latin American Countries.

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