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Call for proposals selects collaboration in neglected infectious diseases Versão em português
FAPESP, Medical Research Council and Newton Fund will fund five joint centers with researchers from Brazil and UK (photo: MRC)
FAPESP, the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Newton Fund announce the result of a call for proposals to select and fund Neglected Infectious Diseases Joint Center Partnerships.
Five proposals were selected. The centers will be an agreed collaboration and a way of working together, with the aim of enhancing existing partnerships and developing new collaborations between researchers from the State of São Paulo and researchers from United Kingdom.
The call for proposals is available at: www.fapesp.br/en/11691.
Selected proposals:
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UK-Brazil Joint Centre for Arbovirus Discovery, Diagnosis, Genomics and Epidemiology (CADDE) |
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Processo / Grant number |
2018/14389-0 |
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Acordo / Agreement |
FAPESP-MRC/UKRI-FUNDO NEWTON |
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Pesq. Resp. / PI |
Ester Cerdeira Sabino |
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Pesq. Resp. Ext. / PI abroad |
Nuno Faria |
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Instit.Exterior / Instit. abroad |
University of Oxford |
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Instit. sede / Host Institution |
Universidade de São Paulo |
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UK:Brazil Joint Centre Partnership in leishmaniasis |
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Processo / Grant number |
2018/14398-0 |
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Acordo / Agreement |
FAPESP-MRC/UKRI-FUNDO NEWTON |
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Pesq. Resp. / PI |
Angela Cruz |
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Pesq. Resp. Ext. / PI abroad |
Jeremy Mottram |
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Instit.Exterior / Instit. abroad |
University of York |
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Instit. sede / Host Institution |
Universidade de São Paulo |
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Bridging epigenetics, metabolism and cell cycle in pathogenic trypanosomatids |
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Processo / Grant number |
2018/14432-3 |
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Acordo / Agreement |
FAPESP-MRC/UKRI-FUNDO NEWTON |
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Pesq. Resp. / PI |
Ariel M. Silber |
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Pesq. Resp. Ext. / PI abroad |
Michael Barrett |
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Instit.Exterior / Instit. abroad |
University of Glasgow |
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Instit. sede / Host Institution |
Universidade de São Paulo (Instituto Butantan) |
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Converting natural product leads into structure- and ligand-based drug discovery campaigns against leishmaniasis and Chagas' disease |
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Processo / Grant number |
2018/14268-9 |
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Acordo / Agreement |
FAPESP-MRC/UKRI-FUNDO NEWTON |
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Pesq. Resp. / PI |
Adriano D. Andricopulo |
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Pesq. Resp. Ext. / PI abroad |
Kevin David Read |
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Instit.Exterior / Instit. abroad |
University of Dundee |
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Instit. sede / Host Institution |
Universidade de São Paulo |
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SPIICA' - the Sao Paulo-Imperial College Immune Correlates in Arbovirus Infection Network |
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Processo / Grant number |
2018/14372-0 |
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Acordo / Agreement |
FAPESP-MRC/UKRI-FUNDO NEWTON |
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Pesq. Resp. / PI |
Rodrigo Guerino Stabeli |
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Pesq. Resp. Ext. / PI abroad |
Daniel Altmann |
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Instit.Exterior / Instit. abroad |
Imperial College London |
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Instit. sede / Host Institution |
Fiocruz (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation) |