DISCOVERIES THAT SAVE MILLION LIVES

Bogota DC, March 24, 2007.

SYNTHETIC VACCINES AGAINST THE CANCER, VIH AND TUBERCULOSES DONE IN COLOMBIA, SCIENCE FICTION OR REALITY?...

In a conference that was made in Bogotá, professor Manuel Elkín Patarroyo exposed of a didactic and colloquial way before an audience overwhelmed in his totality, like has been the development of the first done synthetic vaccine in the called world Colombia against the malaria SF66, which has been the one that more effectiveness has shown in fighting this terrible disease that annually snatches the life to him to million people in the world, in America, Asia and Africa specially. In this exhibition Doctor Patarroyo explained as it is possible to get to develop vaccines against other diseases such as cancér of uterus, tuberculosis and VIH. The scientific method almost of science fiction, has been created to develop vaccine synthetic, now, makes lack much more governmental support and prevailed nonsingle of Colombia but of the rest of countries of the world so that their investigations come in a really success!! .. 25 years ago seemed an impossible today is possible... and to think that in 1980 some scientists said that the vaccine against the malaria would be ready for year 2025...

HISTORICAL REVIEW OF A PARADIGM.
MANUEL ELKIN PATARROYO (scientific)

Although in the last years have been several the attempts, the group of the Colombian scientist Manuel Elkín Patarroyo managed to develop the first vaccine against the malaria in January of 1986. Which was donated its patent in 1995 to the OMS World wide Organization of the Health, to assure its use in benefit the humanity and not the one of the pharmaceutical houses or the his own one. Doctor Manuel Elkín Patarroyo has been untiring in the search of definitive solutions for the diseases that specially affect the developing countries. Optimist, a little dreamer and very cultured, Elkín, have put in the pocket to average world, although to another means she bothers to him, today dreams about finding a vaccine for cancér of uterus, VIH AIDS and the tuberculosis. Its interest by the biomedical investigation took to him to leave the European and North American laboratories to found on 1972 the Institute of Inmunology of the Hospital San Juan de Dios and to dedicate themselves almost by 15 years to the search of the vaccine that avoided the death of 1,5 million people to the year. From there, Patarroyo has carried out its investigations, accompanied by a disciplinary group of Colombian scientists, in its majority very young, between whom are doctors, bacteriologists and microbiologists, to which has formed in the investigation. At the moment, it works as much in the improvement of the second generation of the vaccine of the malaria like in vaccines of the tuberculosis and the hepatitis B, diseases that every year end the life of 7 million people in the world. Recognitions it has not needed, although some are past unnoticed in their own country, Manuel Elkín Patarroyo received The Edinburgh Medal - the highest recognition than England grants to a scientist -, the Prize Prince of Asturias and the Roberth Koch Prize, considered by many like the waiting room of the Nóbel, and in spite of this continues being the humble Colombian who dreamed in his adolescence about saving to the world. The Colombian scientist who was born in Ataco (Tolima), the 3 of November of 1947, is doctor immunologist, professor of the National University of Colombia and the Rockefeller universities (New York) and of Stockholm (Sweden), publisher of 3 books, awarded with 3 national prizes of medicine and creditor to the National Prize of Sciences Alexander Angel Field of broom in the years of 1,979, 1,981, 1,984, and 1986; lecturer in more than 100 international symposiums and an endless number of national congresses; author of more than 100 international scientific publications. He could be made much more by the patients... Manuel Elkín Patarroyo in an occasion said that "the pharmaceutical industry does not do everything what could by the AIDS patients, and that only take care to look for treatment methods which they extend the treatment but they do not end the pathology. Everything, by economic reasons ". "Nobody has nor idea of how it is going to be the evolution of the humanity and probably who today are above, tomorrow they can be down. I believe that until by selfishness it is necessary to be shared in common ", pronounced Patarroyo when it was chosen by the Organization Hands Together with in favor of the support projects of development in the needed countries more. Patarroyo comes from a family of 11 brothers, of whom 5 are doctors, a nurse and another psychologist. Their parents were retailers, but always they taught the vocation to them on watch, which has been fulfilled totally since no of their brothers is actually private. Being most anxious of the family, from the 8 years their parents gave him to read books on life of Pasteur and a collection on Greek myths, to which he attributes his two tendencies: the medicine and the philosophy. Elkin has been self-taught. Since was good the first year of his medicine studies worked in virus with one of its mentors in the Rockefeller Foundation, of happened there to Yale. It was never has beeb a great student because he turned aside towards the physiology of the immune system, since it interested to him was chemistry and the inmunology. A form to see the science Married and with three children, their familiar life and its human quality is so own in him as their passion by the investigation. Therefore, it is hardly logical that his family always is around his scientific project and is not a pact because considers that "it is not agreed to on which has been convinced". Elkín Patarroyo is loving of the art, specially of oil painting and it boasts to have one of the best collections of Colombian art, not by the money that wins, but because to his friends painters I can say to them "likes that one", and they do not dare to say to him that no. After the difficulties with the Ministry of Health, with the banks by the embargoes and the be in favor of the lack of interest in the scientific researches, Manuel Elkin Patarroyo left with science`s friends and from the this 7 of some Colombians we will have a new institute of inmunology. The facilities of the missing Institute of Nuclear Subjects, will be the new seat of the Foundation Institute of Inmunology of Colombia, whose opening they attended personalities as chemistry the Nóbel prize Brushes Merryfield, experts in malaria, members of the World-wide Organization of the Health and a representative of Jose Saramago. Patarroyo put its science to the service of the man. Their works will save thousands of lives, and their perseverance and zeal, their shrewdness and scientific excellence, they deserve that it is recognized to him from already like one of the greatest scientists of century XX, and perhaps of century XXI.....