Andrés Velasco-Villa
SENIOR RESEARCHER
“For more than 20 years, I have been working in premier public health institutions fighting rabies globally from different angles. My line of work has spanned from applying rabies control measures in the field, development of new generation vaccines to apply innovative research for better understanding of rabies virus evolution to predict and prevent new rabies epidemics. In 2016, I had the opportunity to work with a group of renowned scientist, that ILLARIY brought together to lay out a blue print project to commence an holistic ecologically friendly fight against a chronic public and animal health problem that had remained neglected in the Western Hemisphere for decades (vampire bat transmitted rabies). Thanks to the outstanding professionalism, high technical and quality standards of ILLARIY’s specialized and administrative personnel we have an outstanding meeting that resulted in several publications in top 10 scientific journals, which will shape future policies to fight this problem and mitigate its devastating consequences more efficiently. Thank you ILLARIY for your support in making this possible.” Rabies Lab - CDC/USD