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Data de publicação: 26/07/2023 - 14:51
Fiocruz co-organized and participated, last Tuesday (7/18), in two parallel events on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda at the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, in New York. According to the panelists at the morning table, one of the trump cards of the events was the union, in the debate, of civil society and the government, a symbol of how the 2030 Agenda theme should be addressed. In addition to highlighting the...
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Data de publicação: 26/07/2023 - 12:00
Fiocruz, through the Institute of Drug Technology (Farmanguinhos/Fiocruz), signed this Wednesday (7/19) a technical and scientific partnership agreement with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) and the Egyptian pharmaceutical company Pharco Pharmaceuticals to request the registration of the drug Ravidasvir, for the treatment of hepatitis C, at the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa). The announcement is part of the...
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Data de publicação: 27/09/2023 - 09:59
Researchers from Fiocruz Bahia carried out a study to evaluate the safety of COVID-19 vaccines using an inactivated virus platform (CoronaVac) and mRNA (Pfizer) during pregnancy, observing whether immunization could be associated with problems during the birth of the baby and neonatal mortality. The study showed that vaccination against COVID-19 in all trimesters of pregnancy, regardless of the type of vaccine, is safe and does not increase the...
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Data de publicação: 29/09/2023 - 10:02
Researchers from Fiocruz and Harvard University carried out the first national study assessing suicide among indigenous and non-indigenous people in Brazil. The study assessed suicide rates during the period from 2000 to 2020 and showed a disproportionately higher risk in indigenous people, especially those aged 10-24. The North and Central-West were the regions with the highest suicide risk, especially states such as Amazonas and Mato Grosso do...
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Data de publicação: 26/07/2023 - 10:48
The Commission for Education, Research and Technological Assessment of the German Federal Parliament visited Fiocruz, last Saturday (7/15), to strengthen ties with the institution, reinforce existing partnerships and assess possibilities for new cooperation between the Foundation and institutions and the German government. The visit was part of an agenda of the Commission to Brazil from July 9th to 16th. The German Parliamentary Commission...
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Data de publicação: 18/09/2023 - 11:14
In order to resume the historic partnership between Brazil and Angola, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva paid a state visit to the country with a delegation made up of members of the government and autonomous agencies, parliamentarians and businesspeople. Representing Fiocruz, the vice-president of Education, Information and Communication (VPEIC/Fiocruz), Cristiani Machado, was in Luanda from August 24 to 25 and took part in activities...
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Data de publicação: 28/09/2023 - 11:12
Fiocruz will be one of the hosts of the 25th Annual General Meeting of the Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DCVMN), which will take place in the city of São Paulo in 2024. Together with the Institute of Technology in Immunobiologicals (Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz), the Butantan Institute, a body linked to the São Paulo State Health Department (SES), will also be hosting the event, which brings together vaccine...
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Data de publicação: 28/09/2023 - 10:17
"What can we achieve together better than separately?". This was the question that opened the conference by Liam Smeeth, director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) at the Capes-Print Fiocruz International Seminar, held at the Center for Documentation and History of Health (CDHS) last Tuesday (9/19) with mediation by Cristiani Machado, vice-president of Education, Information and Communication, and Maur...
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Data de publicação: 21/07/2023 - 16:25
Joining efforts to reduce maternal, child and fetal mortality rates in the region as soon as possible. This was one of the mottos of the meeting (7/14) between the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Susana Sottoli, the UNFPA delegation in Brazil, the Chief of Staff of the Presidency of Fiocruz, Zélia Profeta, among other representatives of the Foundation. Sottoli was at Fiocruz to...
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Data de publicação: 20/07/2023 - 11:44
A graduate of the Sergio Arouca National School of Public Health (Ensp/Fiocruz), the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), Jarbas Barbosa returned this Thursday (7/13) to the Foundation to pay homage to Fiocruz. The visit also had the signing of two agreements: one to support studies for the development of the mRNA vaccine against COVID-19, and the other for technical cooperation in the field of Traditional, Complementary...
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Data de publicação: 11/09/2023 - 15:46
A technology developed at the Carlos Chagas Institute (Fiocruz Paraná) offers a minimally invasive, fast and low-cost method for early diagnosis of breast cancer. Thus, the proposal uses an advanced biosensor, developed by the team coordinated by the researcher from Fiocruz Paraná, Leonardo Foti, which includes Maria Luiza Ferreira dos Santos, co-author of the idea. The technology was presented at this year's edition of the Bio...
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Data de publicação: 11/09/2023 - 11:06
A group of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC/China) visited Fiocruz in the last week of October and met with colleagues from the Foundation to advance the cooperation in the area of science and technology related to health. On the occasion, a working group (WG) was created to facilitate the creation of the Sino-Brazilian Infectious Diseases Research and...
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Data de publicação: 27/09/2023 - 12:05
The National Immunization Program (PNI), one of the great achievements of Brazilian public health and one of the biggest initiatives of its kind in the world, turned 50 this Monday (9/18). Fiocruz, which supplies a significant portion of the vaccines used in PNI campaigns, has been an important part of this success story since the beginning of the program. The Foundation, in addition to producing immunizing agents, collaborates in the...
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Data de publicação: 27/09/2023 - 10:52
A megastructure for studies on the interaction between health and climate, considering the Brazilian continental territory and the vast diversity of climate and ecosystems, with socioeconomic, geographic, and modeling data working together to answer unprecedented scientific questions. This is the great promise of the Cidacs Clima – Climate, Environmental and Health Data Platform project, which was launched on Thursday (9/21) at the...
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Data de publicação: 06/09/2023 - 15:24
“Seek to surround yourself with people who are smarter and more talented than you are.” In front of an audience of researchers, students and employees of Fiocruz, William G. Kaelin Jr gave advice like this and spent an hour and a half telling the audience a little about his personal trajectory and his work – including the research that led him to receive the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine. His lecture How Mammalian Cells Sense...
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Data de publicação: 27/09/2023 - 08:13
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Data de publicação: 27/09/2023 - 08:12
The Technological Management Coordination (Gestec), an sector linked to the Vice-Presidency of Production and Innovation in Health (VPPIS), is Fiocruz's Technology Transfer Office, responsible for coordinating Fiocruz’s Technological Management and Innovation System, the “Gestec-NIT System”, which is comprised of Gestec/VPPIS and the Technological Innovation Centers at Fiocruz's units. Gestec/VPPIS is mainly...
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Data de publicação: 27/09/2023 - 08:12
Fiocruz's Innovation Portfolio has a wide and diverse number of technologies, related primarily to the field of health, which may be applied on the development of products and services. Technological development and researches carried out at Fiocruz can be subject to public and private partnerships, with international institutions and companies, thus allowing that new health solutions and technologies are made available to society....
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Data de publicação: 27/09/2023 - 08:11
Fiocruz's Innovation Portfolio has a wide and diverse number of technologies, related primarily to the field of health, which may be applied on the development of products and services. Technological development and researches carried out at Fiocruz can be subject to public and private partnerships, with international institutions and companies, thus allowing that new health solutions and technologies are made available to society....
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Data de publicação: 27/09/2023 - 08:05
Fiocruz seeks to expand its partnerships with the productive sector in order to accelerate the process of transforming knowledge into innovative products and services to tend the needs of society. With that in mind, Fiocruz’s Innovation Portfolio gathers the technologies developed in the Institution with a high innovative potential, which aim at contributing to the generation of solutions for the problems of public health.  If...
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Data de publicação: 12/09/2023 - 15:24
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Data de publicação: 14/07/2023 - 16:17
An international consortium of scientists, with the participation of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), decoded the complete genome of two species of sandflies, vectors of leishmaniasis. The insects Lutzomyia longipalpis  and Phlebotomus papatasi had their DNA sequenced for the first time, with the characterization of genes associated with important behaviors in disease transmission. The results were published in the...
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Data de publicação: 14/07/2023 - 12:29
Fiocruz received, in the last week, visits from authorities and foreign delegations interested in acting and in possible areas of cooperation with the Foundation. On different occasions, the Chinese ambassador to Brazil, Zhu Qingqiao, and the Swiss Federal Councilor, Guy Parmelin, participated in meetings at the Official Residence, where they reinforced their willingness to expand existing partnerships and invest in new ones, mainly in the areas...
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Data de publicação: 13/07/2023 - 09:41
The partnership that allowed Fiocruz to manufacture the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 now has the chance to be expanded in the fight against other diseases. This Wednesday morning (7/5), the Foundation and AstraZeneca signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to discuss collaborations in other areas of innovation in health, including oncology and rare diseases. The MoU was signed by Marco Krieger and Leon Wang (photo: Peter...
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Data de publicação: 06/09/2023 - 13:34
The director of the National Institute of Health (INS, the acronym in Portuguese) of Mozambique, Eduardo Samo Gudo, was at Fiocruz on the 23rd and 24th of August to learn more about the Foundation's practices and management experience and to deepen cooperation between institutions, especially in the areas of management, research and teaching. Gudo, who holds a doctorate from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC/Fiocruz), participated in meetings...
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