Milton Moraes and the end of Leprosy

Milton Moraes is an associated researcher at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, a world-class research institution on tropical diseases in Brazil, where he leads the Leprosy laboratory

In this episode we talk about building a top researcher career in a developing country, translational research and how to end neglected diseases such as leprosy.

I really enjoyed talking to Milton and I hope you will enjoy the conversation too.

Key take aways

1. Went from intern to head of the laboratory doing translational research on leprosy, that aims to go from the understanding of the molecular mechanism of the disease to its cure
2. Health development are very serious and don't allow for 'in house' solutions. It requires good practices of production and that is why it took 15 years to bring a diagnostic kit to the market.
3. Scientists need to go beyond publications
4. In 2050 10M people dying of resistant bacteri because we didnt develop antibiotics in the last 30-40 years, because Antibiotics are not lucrative
5. We need health preparedness to fight the new pandemics. But this investment will contribute to technology that will exponentially increase our quality of life
6. We need specific funding to develop a vacine that may not be lucrative

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e-mail: milton.moraes@fiocruz.br