From odanielsalomon at gmail.com Sun Jul 13 09:28:51 2025 From: odanielsalomon at gmail.com (Oscar Daniel Salomon) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:28:51 -0000 Subject: [Leish-l] Sao Paulo School of Advanced Science In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear colleagues. A week ago, without prior or subsequent communication with us, the presidential decision to close the National Institute of Tropical Medicine-INMeT, which organised ISOPS VIII in Puerto Iguazu, was published. The arguments presented can be refuted with documentary evidence, and the future discussed with actors who present alternatives, but there is no willingness to dialogue. Fourteen years after the creation of INMeT, and three years after the inauguration of the 10000 m2 building with BSL2 and BSL3 laboratories among other facilities, it will be liquidated, and it is proposed that the numerous lines of work be absorbed by other institutions 1400 km away from the subtropical area. The enormous investment in human resources training, structure and infrastructure, the effort made, and the hope of young people who approached the project with the conviction that they could contribute to reducing health inequalities through research, will be lost. For this reason, it is my duty to gather wills, to try to rescue what we believe is necessary so that those who come after us can rebuild before all that is left is scorched earth. Many thanks to the community of leishmaniacs for having accompanied us in our growth since the outbreak of leishmaniasis in Argentina in 1985, and especially since ISOPS I in Rome. Dr Oscar Daniel Salom?n Researcher Senior CIC CONICET National Institute of Tropical Medicine ANLIS "Dr. Carlos G Malbr?n" Almafuerte y ?mbar s/n (3370) Puerto Iguaz?, Misiones, ARGENTINA >