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Biologist Develops Chagas Disease Vaccine

Associated Center:

Border Biomedical Research Center


Researcher(s) Keywords:

  1. vaccines
  2. Trypanosoma cruzi
  3. proteomics
  4. Prognosis
  5. Parasitology
  6. Microbiology
  7. Lipidomics
  8. Immunology
  9. Glycomics
  10. Glycobiology
  11. Clinical Trial
  12. Chemotherapy
  13. Chagas Disease
  14. Biomarkers

Featured Researcher(s):

Almeida, Igor
College: Science
Department: Biological Sciences
Biologist Develops Chagas Disease Vaccine
Date: 17 June 2013 20:59



In a prestigious journal this year, researchers labeled Chagas disease as the new HIV/AIDS of the Americas. However, the epidemic may soon be facing its end, thanks to a recent development at The University of Texas at El Paso’s Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC).

Igor C. Almeida, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences, has developed a fully protective vaccine against the parasite that causes the disease – Trypanosoma cruzi or T. cruzi.


Full story: [ Link to University Communications ]