Leprosy Mailing List – October 16, 2024
Ref.: (LML) The zebra fish professor
From: Joel Almeida, Mumbai, India
Dear Pieter and colleagues,
Zebra fish were mentioned here recently.
The Figure. Reproduced from Madigan et al., 2017, Cell 170, 973–985.
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Prof. Lalita Ramakrishnan, the corresponding author of that article is from an HD-endemic country, and recently was named as the 2024 winner of the Robert Koch award. Her brother in 2009 had shared the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work on ribosomes.
Making room and opportunities for the brightest young people from endemic countries is likely to yield good outcomes. Would it be a bad idea to recognise that we are all students of a tricky bacillus and of human nature, and that knowledge can flow in all directions?
The interventions producing the most rapid decline in MB HD incidence rate so far (15 to 20%/yr) have come from endemic countries that were allowed to do their thing. Even more rapid decline seems possible. Would it be unwise for smaller endemic countries to emulate the most successful projects of larger endemic countries?
With all sincerity,
Joel Almeida
LML - S Deepak, B Naafs, S Noto and P Schreuder
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