Dr. Guillermo Arroyave graduated from University of San Carlos de Guatemala (Pharmacy) (B.S. 1947), Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Mass. (Nutrition Food Science) (M.Sc. Level 1948) and University of Rochester Medical School (Biochemistry), Roschester, N.Y. (Ph.D. 1953). He joined the international, Vitamin A Consultative Group (IVACG). Nutrition Foundation. He also was a member of Technical […]
Professor S.K. Lam has been one of the most influential figures in Medical Virology in Southeast Asia. His research in dengue is recognized worldwide as well as by the World Health Organization. In recent years, his involvement in emerging diseases has led to the discovery of new viruses in the region, and the isolation of […]
Professor Barry J. Marshall of University of Western Australia reported with his colleague the indentification and culture of a novel organism that was found to colonize the human gastric central, and upper duodenal mucosa in cases of gastritis and gastric/duodenal ulcer. Later he recognized that the new becterium now indentified as Helicobacter pylori caused severe […]
Dr. Margaret F.C. Chan obtained her B.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Western Ontario, Canada in 1973 and 1977. She joined the Hong Kong civil services in 1978 and began her career in public health. She undertook postgraduate training in public health at the Singapore National University where she obtained her M. Sc. […]
Professor Alfred Sommer received B.S. degree from Summa Cum Laude, Union college. He further studied M.D. from Harward Medical School and M.H.S. from Johns Hopkins School of Hygine & Public Health, Epidemiology. He was a Director of Vitamin A Deficiency Research and Control Program, Indonesia (1976-80). He became a professor, Epidemiology, Ophthalmology, International Health, Johns […]
Sir Iain Geoffrey Chalmers, Director of UK Cochrane Centre, National Health Service Research and Development Program, Summertown Pavilion, Middle Way, Oxford, Great Britain Dr. Chalmers is a co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, which aims to help people by preparing, maintaining and promoting the accessibility of systematic reviews of healthcare interventions. The results of the work […]
Professor Harald Zur Hausen is Professor Emeritus and former Director of Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (German Cancer Research Center) in Heidelberg, Germany. Professor Zur Hausen’s discovery has a major impact in our understanding of the cause of cervical cancer which is leading to the prevention of one of the most common cancers in women. He and his […]
Dilip Mahalanabis, MD. is the Director of the Society for Applied Studies, a non- governmental research organization, in Kolkata, India. Dr. Dilip Mahalanabis started his work on oral rehydration therapy in 1966 as a research investigator for Johns Hopkins University International Center for Medical Research and Training in Calcutta. During the Liberation War of Bangladesh […]
David R. Nalin, MD. Is the former Director of Vaccine Scientific Affairs. Merck Vaccine Division, Merck&Co. Inc., West Point, Pensylvania, U.S.A. Dr. David R. Nalin, was assigned, in the 1960s, to the Pakistan-SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory (CRL) in Dhaka, East Pakistan (presently, the capital city of Bangladesh) as a research associate at the US National […]
Richard A. Cash, MD, MPH. is Senior Lecturer on International Health at the Department of Population and International Health, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, U.S.A. As a young clinician, right after finishing his internship in New York City, working at the Pakistan-SEATO Cholera Research Laboratory (CRL) in Dhaka in 1960s, Dr Cash had […]
