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In the 30 plus years since his first visit to China in 1989, Professor Tanner has tirelessly promoted research collaboration between Switzerland and China on health and tropical diseases through international meetings, scholar exchange, and training of young scientists. As a contribution to Professor Tanner\u2019s life\u2019s work of collaboration with Chinese scientists, we summarize here ideas conceived, work initiated and major outcomes. His approach, embodied in his flowery expression: \u201cAlps and Himalayas never meet, but Swiss and Chinese can\u201d, marked the occasion in 2013 when Xinhua Co., Ltd., a pharmaceutical company in Shandong of China, agreed to produce tribendimidine, a new remedy for tropical helminth infections, that was the fruit of long-term research by scientists at the Swiss TPH in Basel, and National Institute of Parasitic Diseases (NIPD) in Shanghai. This was neither the first nor the last of Professor Tanner\u2019s forceful, yet diplomatic influence, and we follow in his footprints when continuing in Swiss-Chinese cooperation in tropical medicine.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/diseases10040083","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,8]],"date-time":"2022-10-08T20:43:21Z","timestamp":1665261801000},"page":"83","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Swiss-Chinese Cooperation in Tropical Medicine: The Role of Professor Marcel Tanner"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Shan","family":"Lv","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200025, China"},{"name":"NHC Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology, WHO Collaborating Centre for Tropical Diseases, National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Ministry of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200025, China"},{"name":"School of Global Health, Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Ding","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200025, China"},{"name":"NHC Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology, WHO Collaborating Centre for Tropical Diseases, National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Ministry of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200025, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0190-1084","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Robert","family":"Bergquist","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Ingerod, SE-454 94 Brastad, Sweden"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guojing","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Tropical Medicine, Hainan Medical College, Haikou 571199, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jiagang","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1417-8427","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiao-Nong","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200025, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"92","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.1982.31.92","article-title":"Schistosomiasis control in the People\u2019s Republic of China","volume":"31","author":"Mao","year":"1982","journal-title":"Am. 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