UWI Crest Campus Image: Mona Curve image for menu aesthetics
 
Life Sciences
Faculty of Pure & Applied Sciences
Search |
Undergraduate Teaching | Postgraduate Training | Research | Staff | News/Events | Useful Links | About Us | Home
red colored bar
grey colored bar


A Professor of Parasitology, Dr. Robinson combines various diagnostic techniques with the results of electron micrographs and cytochemistry to provide novel information on infectious diseases in Jamaica. Over the years, he has investigated the transmission of Angiostrongylus cantonensis to humans as well as the presence of the infection in wild rats and snails. He was also involved in the study of infection in red tilapia, intestinal helminths in dogs in the Kingston Metropolitan Area with an emphasis on Ancylostoma sp. and the plant compound, Eryngial, as an effective treatment against human Strongyloides stercoralis infection.


Letters Patent
(i)  Medicaments for the treatment of Strongyloides stercoralis infections
  • Inventors: Wayne Forbes, Ralph Robinson & Paul Reese
  • Assignees: The University of the West Indies, Mona & The Scientific Research Council of Jamaica

    • Jamaica Patent #3325 awarded September 23, 2002
    United States Patent pending (application filed April 29, 2003)

(ii)  In vitro bioassay employing laboratory-cultured larvae of Strongyloides stercoralis
  • Inventors: Ralph Robinson, Wayne Forbes, Lawrence Williams & John Lindo
  • Assignees: The University of the West Indies, Mona & The Scientific Research Council of Jamaica
United States Patent pending (application filed April 29, 2003)
red colored bar
grey colored bar

© The University of the West Indies. All rights reserved. Disclaimer | Privacy Statement
Telephone: (876) Fax: (876)
Site best viewed at 800 x 600 resolution or higher.
statistics tracker