Prof. Jeffrey Shaw will be opening the LeishVet ALIVE International Leishmaniosis conference.
There is one name that stands out in the world of animal Leishmaniosis, Jeffrey Shaw OBE, FLS, FASTMH. With more than 250 publications related to Leishmaniosis, Chagas disease and different aspects of other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) he is the leading authority on animal Leishmaniosis.
Originally from England, he has worked on leishmaniasis in Brazil since 1965, initially in the Amazon region, where he was based at the Instituto Evandro Chagas, Belem, Brazil. In 1994 he left Belem to take up a tenured professorship in Sao Paulo University’s Parasitology Department located in its Biomedical Sciences Institute.
When in Belem, in what became the Wellcome Parasitology Unit, he and his team were responsible for a multitude of discoveries about Leishmania and its various species. Over the years the work of his team revolutionised the study of leishmaniasis, and according to Shaw.
“This knowledge made fundamental changes in understanding the pathology, clinical immunology, treatment, vaccination, and control of what is not one disease but a mosaic of diseases.”
He retired in 2008 but continues there as a Senior Professor. He has been a member of three WHO Leishmaniasis Expert Committees, is a WHO expert advisor on Parasitic Diseases (Leishmaniasis) and an advisor to national and international research and funding agencies.
Prof. Shaw is a fellow of the Brazilian Academy of Science, the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and founder and director of the International Leishmaniasis discussion group (Leish-L).
His keynote speech will be on Understanding the amazing diversity of Leishmaniases.
Selected work
- Shaw, Jeffrey Jon (1969). The Haemoflagellates of Sloths . H. K. Lewis: London.
- Shaw, Jeffrey Jon (1985). The hemoflagellates of sloths vermilinguas (Anteaters), and armadillos . In: Montgomery, G. G. (ed.) The evolution and ecology of armadillos, sloths and vermilinguas. Washington: Smithsonian Instituition Press, p. 279-292.
- Lainson, Ralph & Shaw, Jeffrey Jon (1987) Evolution, classification and geographical distribution. In: Peters, W. and Killick-Kendrick, R. The leishmaniases in biology and medicine, v. 1 – Biology and epidemiology. Academic Press: London, p. 1-120.
- Shaw, Jeffrey Jon (2002). New World Leishmaniasis: The Ecology of Leishmaniasis and the Diversity of Leishmanial Species in Central and South America. In: Farrell, J. P. Leishmania. Boston: Springer.
- Shaw, Jeffrey Jon (2002). An appraisal of the taxonomy and nomenclature of trypanosomatids presently classified as Leishmania and Endotrypanum. In: Farrell, J. P. Leishmania. Boston: Springer.
- Rangel, Elizabeth Ferreira & Shaw, Jeffrey Jon (eds.) (2018) Brazilian Sand Flies: Biology, Taxonomy, Medical Importance and Control. Springer International: New York.
- Albanaz ATS, Gerasimov ES, Shaw JJ, Sádlová J, Lukeš J, Volf P, Opperdoes FR, Kostygov AY, Butenko A, Yurchenko V. Genome Analysis of Endotrypanum and Porcisia spp., Closest Phylogenetic Relatives of Leishmania, Highlights the Role of Amastins in Shaping Pathogenicity. Genes. 2021; 12(3):444. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12030444
- Köster PC, Malheiros AF, Shaw JJ, Balasegaram S, Prendergast A, Lucaccioni H, Moreira LM, Lemos LMS, Dashti A, Bailo B, Marcili A, Sousa Soares H, Gennari SM, Calero-Bernal R, González-Barrio D, Carmena D. Multilocus Genotyping of Giardia duodenalis in Mostly Asymptomatic Indigenous People from the Tapirapé Tribe, Brazilian Amazon. Pathogens. 2021; 10(2):206. https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10020206