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ScienceForBrazil.com celebrates the achievements of Brazilian science, identifies research opportunities and funding for foreign scientists working in Brazil, and profiles technology innovation in the academic, public policy, business development and commercial arenas.
Race for Horizon 2020 Research Funding
Brazil’s cash-strapped scientists will need to move fast not to waste a golden opportunity to access some of the EUR 80 billion in funding on offer from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 multi-year innovation funding programme. Despite – or perhaps because of – the recent collapse in domestic funding from Brazilian government sources for science …Continue Reading
Filtering the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
An IT innovation from Brazil that reliably filters out unsolicited pornography videos from web and social-media. An artificial intelligence application developed by Brazilian computer scientists has begun to combat the plague of pornographic junk mail and obscene videos besieging billions of mobile phone users around the world. Samsung, one of the world’s top mobile …Continue Reading
Frugal Science in the Age of Constraint.
“When the centre falters, look to the regions.” That’s good advice for international research funding agency managers looking for partnerships in Brazil, where federal budgets have been slashed. São Paulo state’s funding body is a rare welcome light amid the gloom. After an interval of almost 18 months, Science for Brazil is resuming regular …Continue Reading
The Rio Negro Sketchbook
Who says art and science are entirely separate disciplines? We care about what we see — and the more closely we observe, the more we understand. And there’s no better way of observing closely than through creating art. And what we create, we care for. So any scientific endeavour involving conservation, species diversity or habitat …Continue Reading
Amazonia unites art, education and conservation.
Science for Brazil is celebrating three years of editorial operations, and during this time we’ve described every aspect of Brazil-related scientific endeavour – except our own. Now it’s time to tell you what we ourselves are actively doing to help protect Brazil’s astonishing biodiversity and help everyone to better understand its rich yet fragile Amazon …Continue Reading
GSK invests in pharma research
UK based pharmaceutical giant is investing in Brazil’s basic research and sustainable chemistry sector, as a means of fostering the nation’s drug innovation process. This will be executed through studies of respiratory and metabolic diseases in the fields of immunology and inflammation – all in pursuit of antibacterial-antiviral treatments The São Paulo State Research Foundation …Continue Reading
Biotech: Brazil’s big high-tech industrial hope
Brazil is now targeting investment in Biopharma and Biotech industries specialising both in human health for the tropics, and plant and animal husbandry for tropical agribusiness. In a world dominated by northern hemisphere drug companies focusing on the health needs of higher-income nations, these two sectors constitute a less competitive arena for Brazil to attempt …Continue Reading
Silver Lining to Brazil’s Mining Pollution Cloud
For a nation that’s justifiably proud of hosting 20% of the world’s biodiversity, Brazil is coming to terms with a man-made environmental disaster that has all but eradicated biodiversity along the valley of the Rio Doce, a river flowing 500km from the heartland state of Minas Gerais to the Atlantic seaboard. The baroque, colonial era …Continue Reading
Order and Progress
Essay Scientists are angry with Brasilia’s federal government. So is much of society. Fear, anxiety and frustration are the daily companions of tens of millions. Cynicism and disengagement are commonplace among ordinary Brazilians. No matter how you look at it, the slow-motion breakdown of Brazil’s system of democratic governance shows its politicians are in urgent …Continue Reading
Economic Crisis in Science
“Brazilian science paralysed by economic slump,” warns Nature The influential science publication Nature has laid bare the abrupt reversal being experienced by scientists in Brazil, where for a decade booming funding allocations and growing prestige for federal and state agencies had generated unsustainable optimism. Now in a stunning reversal and just months after leftist president …Continue Reading
Researching in Brazil
Brazil’s best-known scientist, the veteran nuclear physicist José Goldemberg, in September 2015 took office as the president of the São…Read more