Data de publicação: 16/05/2024 - 13:57
In this week dedicated to the donation of human milk, the series Healthier Together – A Path to a Better World, developed in consultation with the WHO Foundation and produced for them by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions and presented by Fiocruz, has one of its films dedicated to the Global Network of Human Milk Banks, an initiative that has the Brazilian Foundation involved in its creation and expansion. In mini-documentary style,...
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Data de publicação: 20/03/2024 - 15:58
In an opinion article – Heat waves, climate crisis and adaptation challenges in the global south metropolises –, published on March 8 in the international open access publisher PLOS, researcher Christovam Barcellos, from Fiocruz, warns of the challenges faced in adapting the global south metropolises to climate change, especially heat waves, pointing out that, in these areas, issues such as the supply of drinking water, electricity...
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Data de publicação: 30/04/2024 - 10:07
A study published in the British journal The Lancet analyzes fertility rates around the world and points out that, by the year 2100, only 6 (3%) out of 204 countries will have sustainable levels of births for sustainable population replacement. The paper analyzes data from 1950 to 2021 and projects for 2050 and 2100. The research is the result of a partnership between an international study group called Global Burden of Diseases. The team...
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Data de publicação: 14/05/2024 - 16:20
On Thursday (5/2), Fiocruz received a delegation from the Global Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence of the World Health Organization (WHO) for a meeting on the current stage and next steps of the bilateral cooperation signed between the institutions last year. The Vice President of Research and Biological Collections (VPPCB/Fiocruz), Maria de Lourdes Oliveira, received the delegation, led by the Unit Head of Insights and Analytics (IAA...
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Data de publicação: 10/05/2024 - 16:47
Fiocruz, through its Fundraising Office, is joining forces with companies and civil society to support families victims of heavy rains in Rio Grande do Sul, a Brazilian state. First, the solidarity network will offer humanitarian aid, with the delivery of water, hygiene kits and other necessary supplies.
Donations will be directed to active social organizations and Foundation partners in the state. To make your donation, ...
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Data de publicação: 20/03/2024 - 15:20
Fiocruz has taken another step forward on the road to cooperation with Malaysia. Visiting the country two weeks ago for the Dengue Alliance meeting, the Foundation's Vice President of Production and Innovation in Health, Marco Krieger, took part in various activities in which he discussed possibilities for cooperation, the Health Industrial Complex, the mRNA vaccine and innovation in health. During the trip, it was planned to sign a...
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Data de publicação: 20/03/2024 - 10:56
Leonardo Bastos, a researcher at the Scientific Computation Program of Fiocruz (PROCC/Fiocruz), won the "Study UK Alumni Awards 2024" on February 28th from the British Council organisation in Brasília. According to the British Council's Director of Cultural Engagement, Diana Daste, "in 2024, the tenth edition of the Study UK Alumni Awards received a total of 1,450 entries from alumni from nearly 100 countries." In...
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Data de publicação: 14/03/2024 - 09:43
Jack A. Tuszynski, professor at the University of Alberta in Canada and the Polytechnic Institute of Turin, in Italy, will give an online research seminar on computational modeling applied to health on March 20, at 2 pm (Brasília time). Entitled Measuring and modeling electro conductive and quantum properties of cytoskeletal protein filaments exposed to electromagnetic fields, the seminar will bring a physics perspective to intracellular...
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Data de publicação: 25/04/2024 - 15:30
A study led by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) in partnership with British institutions opens the door to the development of new treatments for schistosomiasis. The disease affects 200 million people in 78 countries, including Brazil. It also belongs to the group of neglected diseases, which are associated with poverty and receive low investment in prevention, diagnosis and treatment from the pharmaceutical industry and public policies...
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Data de publicação: 07/05/2024 - 17:09
The Wolbachia Method, patented by the World Mosquito Program (WMP) and conducted in Brazil by Fiocruz, with funding from the Ministry of Health, is experiencing a moment of expansion in the country: the program in Joinville (SC), Foz do Iguaçu (PR) and Londrina (PR) enters a new phase with community engagement work, and the biofactory in Rio de Janeiro receives state-of-the-art equipment to scale up its production of Wolbito mosquitoes....
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Data de publicação: 03/05/2024 - 14:38
The president of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira, visited Spain and Portugal between April 18th and 24th, seeking to deepen institutional relations in areas considered strategic with Fiocruz's traditional partners. The visits to the two countries took place shortly after Fiocruz's mission to the United States.
Visit of the Fiocruz delegation to the Nova Medical School campus, in Lisbon (photo: publicity)
"The meetings in Spain and...
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Data de publicação: 12/03/2024 - 11:53
The president of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira, and the Spanish ambassador to Brazil, Mar Fernández-Palacios Carmona, signed, last Wednesday (3/6), a memorandum of understanding between the Foundation and the Carlos III Health Institute. The agreement was signed in the presence of president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and minister Nísia Trindade Lima as part of a state visit by Spanish president Pedro Sánchez....
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Data de publicação: 16/04/2024 - 15:33
The Laboratory of Respiratory Viruses, Exanthematics, Enteroviruses and Viral Emergencies of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz) is part of a new cooperation network of the World Health Organization (WHO) to monitor the different types of coronavirus. Called CoViNet, the initiative is an offshoot of the network of reference laboratories set up by WHO at the start of the public health emergency caused by Sars-CoV-2. The group brings together...
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Data de publicação: 29/04/2024 - 12:14
The Pasteur Fiocruz Center on Immunology and Immunotherapy brings together scientists from the Institut Pasteur and Fiocruz to develop integrative approaches to improve the treatment of infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, and non-communicable diseases, such as cancer, using immunotherapies, considered an important public health strategy.
Immunotherapy is a treatment that dynamically modulates the immune system, promoting the body's...
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Data de publicação: 11/03/2024 - 11:15
On March 20th, at 14h, professor Jack A. Tuszynski, from the University of Alberta in Canada and the Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy, will deliver an online research seminar on computational modelling applied to health titled “Measuring and modelling electro conductive and quantum properties of cytoskeletal protein filaments exposed to electromagnetic fields.” The seminar will provide a physics perspective on intracellular...
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Data de publicação: 16/04/2024 - 15:12
Fiocruz hosted, from April 8th to 12th, the Fiocruz-Pasteur Network International Course on bioproduction, intellectual property and technology transfer. In the auditorium of the Rocha Lima Pavilion, on the Manguinhos Campus in Rio de Janeiro, 11 foreign students and 7 students from different units of the Foundation discussed topics such as research, development, production, quality control, clinical studies, regulatory issues and the...
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Data de publicação: 30/04/2024 - 16:39
President of Fiocruz, Mario Moreira led a mission to the United States between April 15 and 17 seeking to strengthen collaborative ties and promote significant advances with partners in priority areas for the institution. Also taking part in the mission were the vice president of Health Production and Innovation, Marco Aurélio Krieger, the director of the Immunobiological Technology Institute (Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz), Maurício Zuma...
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Data de publicação: 06/03/2024 - 09:53
Intending to establish international partnerships for the development and production of technologies, Fiocruz launched the English version of its Innovation Portfolio on Wednesday (2/28). The Innovation Portfolio is Fiocruz's fundamental tool for seeking out national and international partners interested in developing and licensing products that benefit society.
"We can say that the Portfolio is an important tool for strengthening...
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Data de publicação: 16/04/2024 - 14:30
Fiocruz Pernambuco has created a 100% national ingredient to be added to the rapid screening test for the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL). The product can be used for both the human and canine populations, being the first with this dual efficacy. The product has already been assessed in laboratories and will soon be implemented in the field. VL is an infectious disease transmitted by the drain fly that can affect both humans and animals...
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Data de publicação: 29/04/2024 - 12:15
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Data de publicação: 05/02/2024 - 16:53
The Pasteur Network has announced the election of new regional representatives for the Americas, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Euro-Mediterranean. Among the elected representatives is Mario Moreira, the president of Fiocruz. Alongside Carlos Bathhyany, from the Pasteur Institute in Montevideo, he will represent the Americas. The newly elected representatives will serve two-year terms and become part of the Board of Directors of the Association....
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Data de publicação: 29/04/2024 - 12:15
The Center's activities include organizing courses and other innovative bilateral and multilateral academic activities in the areas of expertise covered by the researchers involved in the cooperation.
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Data de publicação: 29/04/2024 - 12:14
The Pasteur-Fiocruz Center for Immunology and Immunotherapy works in three priority scientific areas: cancer, infectious and neglected diseases, and autoimmune, neurodegenerative and inflammatory diseases.
Research groups and associated projects:
1) Structural computational biology (João Hermínio Martins da Silva Sena).
Associated projects:
- Development of inhibitors for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases...
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