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Manuel Elkin Patarroyo
Manuel Elkin Patarroyo (born November 3, 1947) is a Colombian pathologist who developed the world's first safe and effective synthetic vaccine for malaria, a disease transmitted by mosquitos that affects millions of people in the Third World every year. The vaccine was evaluated in clinical trials carried out by the WHO in Gambia, Tanzania and Thailand, and had mixed results- Susan Aldridge, Magic Molecules: How Drugs Work (Cambridge University Press, 1998), p.
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