Professor Anya Oko Anya (born 3 January 1937) is a Nigerian professor of Biology who is distinguished for his work in Parasitology.
Dr. Santos began his academic career in 1970, while a student at the Medical School of the State University of Campinas, as a research and teaching assistant at the Laboratory of Parasitology in 1970, Physiology and Biophysics in 1971, and Hemotherapy in 1973.
The prevalence of Echinococcus granulosus was found to be 4.5% in Bangalore, India by a study conducted by Centre of Advanced Studies in Veterinary Parasitology, Veterinary College, Hebbal, Bangalore employing this coproantigen detection technique.
A study by veterinary parasitologists from Purdue University indicated that the disease is spreading throughout the Midwestern United States, where it was previously rare or nonexistent.
In 1919 he succeeded Raphaël Blanchard (1857-1919) as professor of parasitology to the "Faculté de Médecine" in Paris, a position he maintained until 1948.
Among Filice's scholarly work in the field of parasitology was a study based upon his doctoral research to characterize the life cycle of the medically significant parasite causing Giardiasis.
In 1946 Lake was posted to the parasitology department of the Vellore Medical Centre.
In 1930, Aharoni set off to look for Syrian hamsters at the request of his colleague Saul Adler, a parasitologist who was looking for an easily breedable alternative to the Chinese hamster for research on the disease Leishmaniasis.
Holding the post until 1953, Departments of Bacteriology, Biochemistry, Paediatrics, Parasitology and Pharmacology were established in the Colombo Medical Faculty and postgraduate examinations in Medicine (MD, MS and MOG) also commenced during this period.
Alexander Trees, Baron Trees, Professor of veterinary parasitology and Crossbench member of the House of Lords
Leishman's name was engraved into the history of parasitology by Sir Ronald Ross, who was impressed by Leishman's work and classified the etiologic agent of kala azar into the separate genus Leishmania.