BCM National School of Tropical Medicine

Tropical Medicine Seminar Series is back! Thanks to Dr . Saeed Ahmed for his presentation today!

https://blogs.bcm.edu/2025/08/18/revisiting-the-forgotten-face-of-leprosy/
Check out this article "Through the Looking Glass: Revisiting the Forgotten Face of Leprosy" from Summer Institute of Tropical Medicine student Shajee Khan

Through the Looking Glass: Revisiting the Forgotten Face of Leprosy National School of Tropical Medicine Summer Institute participant Shajee Khan takes a closer look at leprosy.

https://www.bcm.edu/news/researchers-develop-the-first-assembled-genome-of-a-soft-tick

Researchers develop the first assembled genome of a soft tick Researchers with Baylor College of Medicine and Texas A&M AgriLife Research collaborated with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research...

Fantastic student presentations at the Summer Institute for Tropical Medicine!

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Medical professionals and students! Will you be working in Travel Medicine? Infectious Diseases? Taking CTrop Med Test? We are now taking applications for our Diploma in Tropical Medicine! https://bit.ly/3Zg12x6

TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential People in global health is out today and we're honored to have our very own Dr. Peter Hotez featured. Click here to read all about it: http://ms.spr.ly/6185YuGhl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz8mAwtkKCI
Here's a new video from the Laboratory of Human Parasitology! The latest in a series of videos on their environmental sample studies.

Environmental Studies Series: Southern USA Rojelio Mejia, director of the Laboratory of Human Parasitology at the National School of Tropical Medicine, presents his team's findings in sample studies i...

https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-ntd-day

World NTD Day The aim of the World NTD Day, 30 january, is to raise awareness and to profile neglected tropical disease to improve the rates of early treatment and cure, together with the interruption of its transmission.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciad616/7300883?
New article from Drs. Poveda, Jones, Clark, et al.!
"Adaptation of Chagas Disease Screening Recommendations for a Community of At-risk People With Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Living in the United States"

Adaptation of Chagas Disease Screening Recommendations for a Community of At-risk People with HIV Living in the United States Abstract. Chagas disease (CD), caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, is underdiagnosed in the US. Improved screening strategies are needed, particularly for people at ri

Metabolic restoration: a new indicator of treatment success beyond pathogen clearance Localized cardiac small molecule trajectories and persistent chemical sequelae in experimental Chagas disease - Nature Communications

Today is World Chagas Disease Day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgzuMwmJuXo

This video commemorates World Chagas Day 2023, designated to raise awareness around a devastating disease that affects millions of people around the world. T-shirts provided by Chagas Coalition—see more World Chagas Day 2023 videos here: https://www.instagram.com/worldchagasday/

World Chagas Disease Day 2023 This video commemorates World Chagas Day 2023, designated to raise awareness around a devastating disease that affects millions of people around the world. T...