Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt

The Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt (IMTAvH) is a tropical medicine institute at Cayetano Heredia University in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1968, under the direction of Prof. Hugo Lumbreras Cruz, a distinguished Peruvian doctor and parasitologist.

The Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt is among the top research institutions in tropical medicine in Latin America, with ongoing investigations in tuberculosis, leishmaniasis, malaria and HIV, both in its site in Lima and in several field sites such as Iquitos, Cuzco and La Merced. The institute is also internationally recognized for the Gorgas Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine given jointly with the University of Alabama at Birmingham.