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Call for proposals selects collaboration in neglected infectious diseases 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: 

 

UK-Brazil Joint Centre for Arbovirus Discovery, Diagnosis, Genomics and Epidemiology (CADDE)

Processo / Grant number

2018/14389-0

Acordo / Agreement

FAPESP-MRC/UKRI-FUNDO NEWTON

Pesq. Resp. / PI

Ester Cerdeira Sabino

Pesq. Resp. Ext. / PI abroad

Nuno Faria

Instit.Exterior / Instit. abroad

University of Oxford

Instit. sede / Host Institution

Universidade de São Paulo
 

UK:Brazil Joint Centre Partnership in leishmaniasis

Processo / Grant number

2018/14398-0

Acordo / Agreement

FAPESP-MRC/UKRI-FUNDO NEWTON

Pesq. Resp. / PI

Angela Cruz

Pesq. Resp. Ext. / PI abroad

Jeremy Mottram

Instit.Exterior / Instit. abroad

University of York

Instit. sede / Host Institution

Universidade de São Paulo
 

Bridging epigenetics, metabolism and cell cycle in pathogenic trypanosomatids

Processo / Grant number

2018/14432-3

Acordo / Agreement

FAPESP-MRC/UKRI-FUNDO NEWTON

Pesq. Resp. / PI

Ariel M. Silber

Pesq. Resp. Ext. / PI abroad

Michael Barrett

Instit.Exterior / Instit. abroad

University of Glasgow

Instit. sede / Host Institution

Universidade de São Paulo (Instituto Butantan)
 

Converting natural product leads into structure- and ligand-based drug discovery campaigns against leishmaniasis and Chagas' disease

Processo / Grant number

2018/14268-9

Acordo / Agreement

FAPESP-MRC/UKRI-FUNDO NEWTON

Pesq. Resp. / PI

Adriano D. Andricopulo

Pesq. Resp. Ext. / PI abroad

Kevin David Read

Instit.Exterior / Instit. abroad

University of Dundee

Instit. sede / Host Institution

Universidade de São Paulo
 

SPIICA' - the Sao Paulo-Imperial College Immune Correlates in Arbovirus Infection Network

Processo / Grant number

2018/14372-0

Acordo / Agreement

FAPESP-MRC/UKRI-FUNDO NEWTON

Pesq. Resp. / PI

Rodrigo Guerino Stabeli

Pesq. Resp. Ext. / PI abroad

Daniel Altmann

Instit.Exterior / Instit. abroad

Imperial College London

Instit. sede / Host Institution

Fiocruz (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation)