I have the incredibly great pleasure to introduce Dr. Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León, the 2005 Henry Baldwin Ward Medalist of the American Society of Parasitologists.

Gerardo is one of the most gifted of the latest batch of researchers who uphold the great tradition of international collaboration and friendship between Mexican parasitologists and parasitologists in the United States. This all started in the early 1940s with the friendship that naturally developed between 2 internationally known giants on each side of the Rio Bravo, i.e., Eduardo Caballero y Caballero (founder of the Laboratorio de Helminthología at the Universidad National Autonóma de México (UNAM) and ostensibly the father of Mexican parasitology) and the venerable Harold Winfred Manter at the University of Nebraska.

After both Manter and Caballero passed on, the friendships and collaborations that had developed continued between Mary Lou Pritchard of the newly established Manter Laboratory of Parasitology at the University of...

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