[Leish-l] ENC: Leishmaniasis looses one of its icons - Bob Killick-Kendrick

[Sinval Pinto Brandão Filho]

De: Sinval Pinto Brandão Filho [mailto:sinval at cpqam.fiocruz.br] 
Enviada em: segunda-feira, 24 de outubro de 2011 15:49
Para: 'leish-l-bounces at lineu.icb.usp.br'
Cc: 'jeffrey shaw'
Assunto: ENC: [Leish-l] Leishmaniasis looses one of its icons - Bob
Killick-Kendrick

 

Dear Dr Shaw and all leishmaniacs,

 

An inestimable loss to all scientific community of parasitology, entomology
and tropical medicine. Professor Bob Killick, with his peculiar elegance,
experience, interesting insights and natural sense of humor always brought
many contributions and special comments on many leishmaniasis fields,
specially on sand flies. Who participated in ISOPS (International Symposium
on Phlebotomine Sandflies) meetings, which he was an the enthusiastic
founder, has in mind unforgettable memories. His classic book "The
Leishmaniases in Biology and Medicine", co-organized with Wallace Peters, is
example of his dedication and love for leishmaniasis and one celebrated
title of parasitology and tropical medicine. 

Our condolences for his family, in special to Mirelle. We will make a
special tribute to him in Worldleish 5 in Brazil.

 

Sinval

 

 

 

De: leish-l-bounces at lineu.icb.usp.br
[mailto:leish-l-bounces at lineu.icb.usp.br] Em nome de jeffrey shaw
Enviada em: domingo, 23 de outubro de 2011 16:25
Para: Leish-L
Assunto: [Leish-l] Leishmaniasis looses one of its icons - Bob
Killick-Kendrick

 

 I have the very sad task to inform everybody that last night (22/10/2011)
Bob Killick-Kendrick died. Leishmaniasis has lost one of its icons and the
breadth and depth of Bob´s comments on-line and at meetings based on years
of experience is a terrible loss to us all. Bob´s career spanned many areas
of parasitology. He worked on trypanosomiasis in Nigeria with David Godfrey
and on returning to England dedicated many years to malaria, in particular
rodent malaria. He travelled extensively on field projects all over the
world and together with Prof Rioux was seminal in understanding the ecology
of leishmaniasis in the Southern France where lived.

Jeffrey Shaw

 

Leish-L welcomes your comments and anecdotes on Bob´s life so please send
them.  

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