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: 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: 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: 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: 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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Data de publicação: 04/09/2023 - 16:24
Developed at the Leônidas & Maria Deane Institute (Fiocruz Amazônia), the real-time PCR diagnostic protocol for detecting Oropouche virus will be used by eight Brazilian public laboratories and, in the future, in other American countries. Oropouche is an arbovirus that causes symptoms similar to dengue, and the decision to use the protocol was taken by the General Coordination of Public Health Laboratories (CGLAB) of the...
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Data de publicação: 30/08/2023 - 16:04
An action plan for the promotion of health equity was the result of the work carried out during the Seminar of the International Association of National Institutes of Public Health (IANPHI) Latin American Network, which took place on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd at the Itaboraí Palace, headquarters of the Itaboraí Forum-Fiocruz Petrópolis. The plan proposals include training activities in Public Health with a focus on social...
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Data de publicação: 16/08/2023 - 16:25
Fiocruz reaffirms its commitment and institutional policy to deepen affirmative and inclusive actions for the country's indigenous populations, through partnerships that offer access to education. The Leônidas & Maria Deane Institute (Fiocruz Amazônia) launched last Monday (8/14) the first master's degree course in Collective Health aimed exclusively at training indigenous professionals, teachers and researchers from Alto...
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Data de publicação: 16/08/2023 - 15:35
Fiocruz actively participated in the Amazon Dialogues, which preceded the Amazon Summit in Belém, capital of the state of Pará, with the co-organization of two events: Health and Environment in the Amazon: integration needed today to act in future scenarios and strengthen the SUS and The Strategic Role of Social Technologies for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the Amazon 2030 Agenda. Both meetings, which were...
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Data de publicação: 09/08/2023 - 15:15
In collaboration with Fundação Hospital Estadual do Acre (Fundhacre), Centro de Infectologia Charles Mérieux and the Federal University of Acre (Ufac), researchers from Fiocruz Rondônia have described a molecular method for quantifying the viral load of individuals with hepatitis Delta (HDV), a disease that is endemic in regions with high prevalence of hepatitis B (HBV). Despite its importance in the public health...
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Data de publicação: 02/08/2023 - 15:24
The 12th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2023) brought together thousands of researchers, scientists and experts in Brisbane, Australia, from July 23rd to 26th. The event was organized by the International AIDS Society (IAS) and brought the gold standard in studies on the theme. The works of researchers from the Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases (INI/Fiocruz), with the theme of the ImPrEP project...
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Data de publicação: 02/08/2023 - 11:25
Arbovirologists and entomologists from 54 countries joined forces to highlight the urgent need to implement global genomic surveillance to high impact arboviruses such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya. The idea was based on leveraging the data sharing model and infrastructure implemented for monitoring the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic. The letter was signed by 74 researchers from across the globe and published in...
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Data de publicação: 31/07/2023 - 10:52
Researchers from the Leônidas & Maria Deane Institute (ILMD/Fiocruz Amazônia) presented on Thursday (7/20) the results obtained from the surveillance work on emerging and re-emerging pathogens circulating in wild fauna and in human cases, carried out by the unit. The research can contribute to effective monitoring and faster responses to future epidemics and pandemics. The work was presented during the Technical Workshop on...
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Data de publicação: 27/07/2023 - 11:38
To ensure greater visibility and articulation between innovative initiatives developed at the institution, Fiocruz launched (7/19) its new Innovation Portfolio. A platform that brings together technologies with high innovative potential, for the development of products and services aimed at meeting the health needs of the population and strengthening of the Unified Health System (SUS, acronym in Portuguese for the Brazilian public health system...
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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: 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: 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: 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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