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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I share the remarks from others in the community and mourn the sad loss of a role model. Lynn
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Lynn Soong, MD, PhD</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Professor and Vice Chair for Research</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Department of Microbiology and Immunology
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The University of Texas Medical Branch</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Galveston, TX 77555-1070</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:lysoong@utmb.edu"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">lysoong@utmb.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> leish-l-bounces@lineu.icb.usp.br [mailto:leish-l-bounces@lineu.icb.usp.br]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jenefer Blackwell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 14, 2014 8:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Martin Sanchez<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Leish-l@lineu.icb.usp.br; Jeffrey Shaw<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Leish-l] Obituary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">A fantastic innings! Find memories of working at the institute in Caracas.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jenefer M. Blackwell<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Telethon Kids Institute<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Winthrop Professor<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></p>
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On 14 May 2014, at 16:37, Martin Sanchez <<a href="mailto:martinsanchez1@gmail.com">martinsanchez1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I regret to inform the scientific community of the list today we buried our Maestro! Professor. Jacinto Convit who passed away on Monday, May 12 at the age of 100<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Professor Convit a great medical researcher born in Caracas Venezuelan in September 1913, stood out nationally and internationally as a leader in studies in the field of Dermatology
and Public Health , developing models immunization against leprosy and leishmaniasis at the end of the eighties , which led him to be among the nominees for the Nobel Prize in Medicine .<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> Dr. Convit created in the decade of the seventies, the National Institute of Dermatology, current (Institute of Biomedicine , which to date was its director. Added to this , among
his achievements the creation of the network of national dermatological outpatient programs and the establishment of monitoring and control of diseases such as leprosy , leishmaniasis, and onchocerciasis, paracoccidioidomycosis .<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Author of over 200 scientific publications, , recognized nationally and internationally by his immunization models of endemic diseases in the country, and in recent years for
development studies in cancer immunotherapy<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Jacinto Convit received numerous national and international awards , some of which the Sovereign Order of Malta, Knight Grade " Religionis " (1969 ) , Armand Frappier Institute
Medal Armand Frappier in Canada (1979 ) , Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research of Spain (1987 ) , "Health for all by the Year 2000 " WHO - PAHO (1988 ) , " Abraham Horwitz for American Health " Prize for the Pan American Health and
Education Foundation (PAHEF ), Washington Medal (1989 ) , Guy Number ( chair No. XXXI) of the National Academy of Medicine, Venezuela (1990 ) , " Mexico Science and Technology " award from the Government of the United States of Mexico (1990) and the Legion
of Honor of France ( 2011 ) .<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Dr Convit always be remembered for his patients, his humility, constant service vocation for over 75 years and her dedication to the health of Latin American
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">may his soul rest in peace<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Martín A. Sánchez S. PhD<br>
Laboratorio de Biología Celular<br>
Instituto de Biomedicina<br>
UCV- MSDS<br>
Sàn nicolas a Providencia Apdo.4043<br>
Caracas 1010A Venezuela<br>
Tel: +58-212-8625326/8305323<br>
Fax:+58-212-8619593/8611258<o:p></o:p></p>
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