Carlota Dobaño Joins the Catalan Royal Academy of Pharmacy

Dr Carlota Dobaño, Associate Research Professor at the Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), an ISGlobal research centre, has been elected academic fellow of the Catalan Royal Academy of Pharmacy. She is the youngest member ever to have been elected. The admission ceremony took place on Monday, January 27^th at the Royal Academy's headquarters in the former Hospital de la Santa Creu in Barcelona. Dr Dobaño's admission speech was entitled Malaria vaccination: A historical perspective, immunogenicity, and future challenges.

In her talk, Dr Dobaño stated how pleased she was to be part of the Catalan Royal Academy of Pharmacy and said that it was both a recognition of a career dedicated to global health research and an opportunity to enhance the visibility of parasitic diseases, which have traditionally formed an important part of pharmaceutical training programmes.

Dr Dobaño is the coordinator of an international project investigating the immunological mechanisms of the RTS,S malaria vaccine. The study is funded by the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, the National Institutes of Health, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, and the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and brings together researchers from numerous centres in Africa, Europe and America. Dr Dobaño was also recently admitted as a new affiliate of the EU FP7 Network of Excellence in malaria research, EVIMalaR.

Speech

Download the full speech [in catalan]