WL has been held quadrennially in endemic countries for 2 decades:

Istanbul 1997

Crete 2001

Palermo 2005

Lucknow 2009

Porto de Galinhas 2013

World Leish

Founded by

Prof KP Chang, Prof MA Ozcel, Prof MZ Alzan, Prof Y Ozbel

Goals

Re-unite lesihmaniacs world-wide to share research thoughts and discoveries

Open the forum to individuals and organizations in public and private sectors

Promote cross-disciplinary interaction/cooperation from basic research to field

work

Provide impetus for solving global problems of leishmaniasis

The organizers

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Fabiana Alves (DNDi) Byron Arana (DNDi) Ricardo Moreno (ISCIII)

CHAIR CO- CHAIR

WL

scientific

committee

Spanish

scientific

committee

Ad hoc

scientific

committee

Organizers

DNDi-ISCIII scientific

committee

The organizers

MANAGEMENT

Fundraising and sponsorship Logistics Secretariat and web page

WL6 scientific agenda

WL6 scientific agenda

WL6 scientific agenda

WL6 scientific agenda

WL6 scientific agenda

WL6 scientific agenda

The collaboration

Articles submitted during 2016 Hot topics parallel sessions

PLOS One

PLOS NTD

LOS Pathogens

WL6 special collection

Prices to 20 researchers: ceremony during congress

Call for papers May 2016

The venue: Toledo

The city of three cultures World heritage city UNESCO 1986

El Greco

Spain´s gastronomic capital 2016 Proximity to Madrid

Modern

congress

facilities

Save the date

worldleish2017.org

Deadline

for posters

30 Nov.

2016