Managed and supported by Fiotec, the III Laveran & Deane Award was held at Fiocruz on December 2nd. The award is associated to the 25th Laveran & Deane Seminar on Malaria, by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz), which takes place every year in Itacuruçá, on the Green Coast of Rio de Janeiro.
The goal of the initiative is to highlight the work of researchers who participated as students of the Seminar and made significant contributions to the study of the disease. Cláudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro, head of the IOC’s Malaria Research Laboratory and coordinator of the event, handed the medal of honor and the award in cash.
Researchers Anna Caroline Aguiar and Denise Anete Madureira de Alvarenga won the award and thanked the Organizing Committee for the chance to be in the company of great researchers of their field and for the guidance over the project’s execution process.
In an interview for Fiotec’s Communication Advisory Office, Claúdio Ribeiro thanked the institution for its management: “Fiotec’s performance can be considered exemplary; it’s been very pleasant and rewarding to wrap up these negotiations and reach our goals. Thank you very much!”. Read his full address.
Laveran & Deane Seminar is tradition
The Seminar pays homage to two malaria researchers: surgeon Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, a French army physician who first identified and described, in 1880, the Plasmodium parasite in a patient’s blood sample, and Brazilian researcher Leônidas de Mello Deane, one of the world’s leading parasitologists and malariologists.
The event was first held in 1995, in collaboration with the post-graduation course in malaria, and boasted only 14 participants. Over these 25 years, about 325 students have participated in the Seminar, 74% of whom are women and 26% are men.