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Research Highlights
Health
COVID-19 vaccine developed at University of São Paulo presents promising results in animal trials
The vaccine formulation has proved to be highly protective, safe and versatile. Moreover, it can serve as a basis for the development of zika and dengue vaccines, for example.
Agronomy
Innovations elevate Brazilian coffee
New cultivation techniques and improved analyses highlight the aroma and flavor of the most consumed nonalcoholic drink in the country.
Innovation
Digital companion on WhatsApp keeps patients safe outside the hospital
FAPESP-funded startup deployed a system that provides information and guidance after hospital discharge; healthtech was selected to participate in a business mission during FAPESP Week Spain.
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Brazil dries up
Climate change gives rise to a region with an arid climate, previously non-existant in the country.
Supercomputers
Capable of complex operations, machines enable to investigate matters such as the effects of deforestation on climate and Milky Way evolution.
Teacher blackout
To improve its basic education, Brazil needs to renew undergraduate courses that prepare students to teach, as well as to create policies that make the teaching career attractive.
Field Diary – Negro River series
Agência FAPESP followed the DEGy Negro River Expedition in search for I. caiana, an electric fish species whose only four specimen known to science were collected in 1968 at an inaccurately-described site.
Public Health
Increasingly widespread use of antibiotics fosters the appearance of superbacteria defying science and health systems.
PublicationS
FAPESP Annual Activity Report - 2023
In 2023, FAPESP approved 56 proposals to purchase large items of research
equipment resulting from three calls issued in 2022 and corresponding to an aggregate investment of $ PPP 184.4 million.
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