Positions
- Sr. Associate Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine
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Houston, Texas, United States
- Professor
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Departments of Pediatrics (Tropical Medicine) and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Integrative Molecular and Biomedical Sciences Program, and Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine Program
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Houston, Texas, United States
- Co-Director
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Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development
Houston, Texas, United States
- Distinguished Professor of Biology
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Baylor University
- Adjunct Professor
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Department of Bioengineering
Rice University
- Editor-in-Chief
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Current Tropical Medicine Reports
Springer US
Education
- PhD from University Of Florida
- 05/1995 - Gainesville, Florida, United States
- Licenciatura en MicrobiologÃa y from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras
- 05/1989 - Tegucigalpa, Departamento Francisco Morazán, Honduras
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship at University Of Pennsylvania
- 05/2001 - Philadelphia, PA, United States
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship at University Of Miami Hospital And Clinics
- 05/1998 - Miami, FL, United States
- Fellowship at American Association for the Advancement of Science Leshner Leadership Institute
- 02/2017 - Washington, DC
Selected Publications
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Loukas A, Bethony JM, Mendez S, Fujiwara RT, Goud GN, Ranjit N, Zhan B, Jones K, Bottazzi ME, Hotez PJ. " " PLoS Med.. 2005 Oct ; 2 (10) : e295.
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Projects
- Coronavirus vaccines
- New vaccines against coronaviruses including Covid-19
- Chagas Disease and Leishmaniasis Vaccine
- Development for a new therapeutic vaccine for Chagas disease. Current efforts focus on the development of two vaccine candidate antigens that will ultimately comprise the first therapeutic vaccine for Chagas disease.
- Human Hookworm Vaccine
- Development of a vaccine for the more than 700 million people suffering from hookworm in the world today. Vaccine currently in phase 1 clinical trials.
- Schistosomiasis Vaccine
- Schistosomiasis afflicts over 200 million people around the globe and is the deadliest disease among the seven most prevalent NTDs, killing an estimated 280,000 people annually.
- Multivalent Anthelmintic Vaccine Discovery
- A panhelmintic vaccine to prevent ascariasis (roundworm) and trichuris (whipworm), soil-transmitted helminths afflicting hundreds of millions of people around the world.
- Development of a novel adjuvant for vaccine sparing
- To develop a highly effective and safe protein adjuvant in a simple aqueous formulation that requires a much lower dose of antigen and that can be administered to humans to boost their immune response.
Memberships
- American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Member
- American Society for Microbiology
Languages
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
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