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Team Advances in Developing Vaccine for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

Associated Center:

Border Biomedical Research Center


Researcher(s) Keywords:

  1. biomaterials
  2. 3D printing
  3. photochemistry
  4. Lipid Nanoparticles
  5. Carbohydrates
  6. Bioorganic Chemistry
  7. Organic Chemistry
  8. Epidemiology of Chagas Disease in Texas.
  9. cutaneous leishmaniasis. Community Engament
  10. Chagas Disease
  11. Parasitology
  12. High Throughout Drug Screening
  13. Chemotherapy of infectious diseases
  14. Molecular Biology

Featured Researcher(s):

Michael, Katja
College: Science
Department: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Maldonado, Rosa
College: Science
Department: Biological Sciences
Team Advances in Developing Vaccine for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis
Date: November 16, 2017



A research team at The University of Texas at El Paso is one step closer to developing an effective human vaccine for cutaneous leishmaniasis, a tropical disease found in Texas and Oklahoma, and affecting some U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq. UTEP biological sciences doctoral student Eva Iniguez; her mentors Rosa Maldonado, Ph.D., and Igor Almeida, Ph.D....


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