アボットジャパンさんのインスタグラム写真 - (アボットジャパンInstagram)「“I come from a very humble background. I grew up in a low-middle-class neighborhood in Medellin, Colombia, during the Pablo Escobar years. “My parents always encouraged us to go to school and study hard so we could have a better future. “After finishing my veterinary degree, I wanted to study more and applied for a scholarship at the University of Wisconsin. Back then, I didn’t even know where Wisconsin was, but I came and got my master’s and my Ph.D. I was very proud of what I had achieved. “Then, my mother asked me, ‘Son, those academic degrees that you have — what are they good for if we have people here dying from dengue? Why don’t you do something about that?’ “This was the challenge that my mom gave me, so I decided to study dengue and work to develop a vaccine. “Being a professor at the University of Wisconsin and now the Director of their Global Health Institute is something that makes me very proud. I get the opportunity to impact people’s lives, train future scientists, increase diversity in these fields and invite great professors and students to join efforts with me and change the world.” Jorge E. Osorio, D.V.M., Ph.D., is the Director of the Global Health Institute and professor at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to his work in the U.S., Osorio spends time in Colombia, where he conducts infectious disease research in partnership with the Abbott Pandemic Defense Coalition. Follow some of Jorge's work as he navigates a vector-borne disease outbreak in Puerto Narino, a riverside town in Colombia, in Abbott's series, “The Virus Hunt.”」11月17日 3時45分