Felipe Guhl Nannetti

FELIPE GUHL NANNETI – Director of CIMPAT

Emeritus Professor

Department of Biological Sciences

E-mail: f.guhl@uniandes.edu.co

Office: A-211

Ext. 2775

Biographical data:

Born in Bogotá Colombia on 14 July 1949.

Biologist (1972), Microbiologist (1974), M.Sc (1976)

Currently Emeritus Professor at Los Andes University, Faculty of Sciences, Department Biological Sciences, Bogotá.

Director of the Tropical Parasitology Research Centre, Universidad de Los Andes.

Specialist on Chagas disease (vector and parasite) molecular ecoepidemiology, immunology, fossil DNA and control.

Prof. Guhl has been working in research and control of Chagas Disease and other parasitic diseases in the last 35 years. Actively involved in the Continental Iniciatives for vector and transfusional control of American trypanosomiasis.

Former Manager of the Chagas Disease Task Force in the TDR/WHO Programme.

Member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel for Parasitic Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva.

Editor Acta Tropica (Elsevier).

Former President of the Colombian Parasitology and Tropical Medicine Association.

Former President of the Latin-American Federation for Parasitology.

Full Member of the Colombian and Spanish Academy of Sciences. Associated Member of the Colombian Academy of Medicine.

TWAS Fellow.

Awarded the prize “Life and Work” by the Alumni Association of Great Britain.

Awarded the National Prize for Sciences “Alejandro Angel Escobar” and the Scientific Merit National Award by the Colombian Association for the Advance in Sciences.