Gorgas Memorial Institute Research Award
General William Crawford Gorgas (1854 – 1920), a tropical medicine pioneer and native Alabamian, was a U.S. Army physician who managed control efforts of yellow fever, malaria and other diseases during the building of the Panama Canal. From 1914-1918 General Gorgas served as the U.S. Army Surgeon General. The Gorgas Memorial Institute, founded in 1921 and named in General Gorgas’ honor, has a long history of fostering research and disease control in Panama and Central America. Since moving to its current headquarters at the William Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine in the University of Alabama ...
Source: ScanGrants feed - July 1, 2013 Category: Research Authors: Gorgas Memorial Institute/American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Source Type: funding
