PERSONAL INFORMATION

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Manuel Elkin Patarroyo Murillo, is a most influential Colombian in the last 50 years, because his advances in research have contributed with science and medicine for cure diseases.

He born on a small Tolima town, it called Ataco, on November 3th of    Colombian more   Date of birth: November 3, 1946, 71years ago. His parents were Julia Murillo y Manuel Patarroyo Leyva. Manuel ever loved the science, he studied on National University of Colombia, Yale University and Rockefeller University. He graduated like Doctor on pathology and Immunology.  Whence he decided to create a small laboratory that would later become the Institute of Immunology in Bogota, Colombia.

Then of a lot studies and researches he wrote a books which called: Manuel Elkin Patarroyo: conversations with Flor Romero a finally he won a Robert Koch Award by his invention of malaria vaccine.