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Winners of World Cultural Council awards announced – Award Ceremony to be held at the University of Helsinki, Finland on November 2023

Consejo Cultural Mundial
Grant and Award Announcement

Professor Christoph Gerber, Department of Physics and Swiss Nano Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland, has been selected as the winner of the 2023 “ALBERT EINSTEIN” World Award of Science. The 2023 “José Vasconcelos” World Award of Education will be granted to Professor Larry V. Hedges, Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, USA. The prizes will be conferred during the 38th Annual Award Ceremony hosted by the University of Helsinki on Friday 3rd November 2023.

Funder: World Cultural Council

Peptide from venomous fish toxin controls lung inflammation in mice

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research group at Butantan Institute performed tests on animal models with asthma as a reference and demonstrated that the peptide from Thalassophryne nattereri, common in North and Northeast Brazil, is safe and efficacious.

Journal: Cells
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Experiment in Brazil identifies flood-prone areas of cities

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The study combined models that predict urban expansion and land-use changes with hydrodynamic models, and the results were validated using actual data for São Caetano do Sul, a city in metropolitan São Paulo.

Journal: Water
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Study reveals that myocardial injury in hypertensive patients with Covid-19 is related to immune dysfunctions

D'Or Institute for Research and Education
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR), in partnership with colleagues from the Rede D'Or, the Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases/FIOCRUZ, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Bahia School of Medicine and Public Health, the Federal Fluminense University, and the State University of Rio de Janeiro, have published a study in the Journal of Clinical Immunology that reveals alterations in the immune system that may be involved in cardiac muscle injury in hypertensive patients with Covid-19.

Journal: Journal of Clinical Immunology
Funder: Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino, CAPES, FINEP, Serrapilheira Institute, CNPq, FAPERJ, SEI

Birds and bats ensure yields for cacao farmers in northern Peru

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Healthy bat and bird populations don’t only help to keep the endangered tropical dry forests of northern Peru in equilibrium. For the regions’ farmers of cacao—the main ingredient in chocolate— these predators are worth almost $1,000 per hectare of annual production.

Journal: Ecological Applications

Study identifies a protein that could be a target for a vaccine against spotted fever

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The molecule was identified by researchers at the University of São Paulo in cells of the Amblyomma tick that transmits the disease.

Journal: Parasites & Vectors
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Brazilian algorithm aims to project future of Amazon Rainforest and predict changes in carbon capture

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The computer program was developed at the State University of Campinas to include more vegetation diversity in the analysis of climate change impacts.

Journal: Ecological Modelling
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

New working group of the GRC is tasked with facilitating multilateral cooperation in science

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Meeting Announcement

In order to find mechanisms to enable collaboration between scientists from different countries, the Global Research Council (GRC) – an entity that brings together the world's main public funding agencies – has created the Working Group on Multilateral Engagement, which met for the first time this Thursday (June 1) in The Hague, Netherlands.

Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Scientific publishers and funding agencies unite in favor of racial and ethnic diversity in research

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Meeting Announcement

There is an understanding among the members of the council that in order to promote structural changes and impact in this regard, it is necessary to improve data collection methods. Initiatives developed by Elsevier, Royal Society of Chemistry, NRF and DFG were presented at event held in The Hague, Netherlands.

Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Municipal administrators know about NbS but rarely use them to reduce environmental inequality

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Study mapped knowledge of nature-based solutions among municipal staff responsible for projects in 20 Brazilian cities. The survey points to the need to adapt the approach used in the northern hemisphere to local conditions.

Journal: Environmental Science & Policy
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo