Dr. Roberto Docampo is a Professor of Cellular Biology and an Eminent Scholar at the University of Georgia (UGA). He obtained an MD-PhD from the University of Buenos Aires and worked at NIH, Rockefeller University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before joining the UGA in 2005. Roberto's current area of interest is in the biochemistry and molecular biology of trypanosomes, etiologic agents of several neglected tropical diseases. The Docampo laboratory's work is centered on the characterization of metabolic pathways in protozoan parasites. Their ultimate goal is to discover metabolic pathways in these parasites that may be essential for their survival but may not find an equivalent counterpart in their host. In addition, Dr. Docampo is a Member of Faculty of 1000 (2006–present), a Member (corresponding) of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (elected in 1999), and was a recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund New Initiatives in Malaria Research Award (1999–2001), and Burroughs Wellcome Fund/American Society for Microbiology Visiting Professor in the Microbiological Sciences (2000–2001), etc.