Professor Jakub Gawor

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ESCCAP Liaison Director, ESCCAP Member Poland

Jakub Gawor graduated in 1983 from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Agricultural University in Warsaw.  In 2007, he completed his habilitation in “Investigations on small strongyles (Cyathostominae) and their control in riding horses, focusing on drug resistance”.

Until 2023, he was employed as Professor of Veterinary Medicine at the Institute of Parasitology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.  He has been retired since January 2024.  His scientific interests focused on veterinary parasitology, with particular emphasis on the epidemiology, diagnosis, prophylaxis and control of parasitic diseases in small and farm animals, as well as parasitic zoonoses — particularly toxocariasis and alveococcosis.  He is a co-author of several recent papers investigating Echinococcus multilocularis, Toxocara spp. and the epidemiological evaluation of risk factors for toxocariasis in children.