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graduó en 1970 por la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y un año después
obtuvo su doctorado en medicina y cirugía. Ese año se casó con la pediatra
María Cristina Gutiérrez, con quien tuvo tres hijos, dos de los cuales se
dedican asimismo a la medicina.
Colombian scientist who succeeded in synthesizing a vaccine against malaria. He graduated in one
from the National University of Colombia and a year later obtained his doctorate in medicine and
surgery. That year he married the pediatrician María Cristina Gutiérrez, with whom he had three
Since he was little, Patarroyo felt admiration for the figure of Louis Pasteur and a great interest in
immunology and virology, so that his professional career was oriented to research in various
national and foreign centers, particularly in the United States and Sweden. At the National
University he founded the Institute of Immunology of the Hospital San Juan de Dios, in which he
developed research on lupus, genetic markers, leukemia, the genetic susceptibility of rheumatic
a synthetic vaccine (SPF-66) against the disease, which he would later refine until reaching firm
levels of efficacy.