2023-07-02 03:00:09
Much of his work has been devoted to ivermectin.
Dr. Carlos Lanusse became the first Latin American to be recognized with the so-called “Nobel” in Veterinary Medicine, the “Lloyd Davis Memorial Award”, awarded by the American Academy of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology.
Lanusse, originally from Tres Arroyos, works as a professor at the FCV-UNCPBA, a senior researcher at Conivet and a member of the Tandil Veterinary Research Center (Civetan).
Much of his work has been dedicated to ivermectin, a drug that is used for the antiparasitic treatment of animals, but which at the end of 2020 demonstrated its efficacy in the fight against Covid, an investigation in which Lanusse participated.
“We have worked with ivermectin for more than 30 years, as a drug against parasites, but the opportunity arose to analyze its effect against Covid and over the years the pioneering results that we published in October 2020 were ratified. ”, he stated in the Campo Veterinario program.
The award that Lanusse received recognizes his remarkable academic career, the contribution to the training of human resources and his contribution to scientific knowledge throughout his career.
Lanusse highlighted that “from the public university and the Conicet, research is being done to generate new knowledge, how drugs work and in the last 10 years the development of resistance of parasites or bacteria. Our great work is how to optimize the treatment, the control of parasites of animals in production trying to avoid this resistance, which has escalated internationally with a contribution from basic pharmacology, through parasitology and taking it to the field”.
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