Expert: MRZ - 1/16/2008

Question
Could you please give me the name of famous scientific people from Colombia living in the USA

Answer
Manuel Patarroyo, a Colombian research scientist, has developed the world's first safe and effective malaria vaccine. The vaccine has been proven effective between 30 and 60 percent of the time to those over one year old. At a 30% effectiveness rate, the vaccine could protect 100 million people from malaria, and could save 1 million lives out of an annual death toll of 3 million. No vaccine has ever protected that many people.

Rodolfo R. Llinás, born in Bogotá, in 1934, is the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman of the department of Physiology & Neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine. He is especially known for his work on the physiology of the cerebellum, the thalamus, Thalamocortical dysrhythmia as well as for his pioneering work on the inferior olive, on the squid giant synapse and on human magnetoencephalography (MEG).    
He is best known for his work on comparative physiology of the cerebellum and on the relationship between brain activity and consciousness.

Raul G Cuero, born in Buenaventura, Colombia is a professor of microbiology and an inventor, with particular expertise in biogenesis. Dr. Cuero led 4 different teams from around the world in synthetic biology in the 2006 IGEM competition, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA. He developed a substance that awakens dormant genes in plant cells and generates resistance to microbacterial attacks and increased protein content. The patent was bought by Vanson-DuPot. His research on the contents of the soil of Mars led him to discover that it can be important in developing cleaning technologies for earth pollution of toxic elements, evidence that has won him an important reputation in the scientific world.