15th January 2021
The implications of our paper ‘Three-quarters attack rate of SARS-CoV-2 in the Brazilian Amazon during a largely unmitigated epidemic‘ have been discussed in an editorial in Science. Read the article about the publication in Science here.
18th December 2020
CADDE Postdoctoral Researcher, Jaqueline Goes de Jesus, has been honoured by ISTOÉ as part of ‘Brazilians of the year 2020’. The honour was for standing out in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic by leading a team of scientists to accomplish the feat of sequencing the genome in 48hrs. Click here to find out more.
26th November 2020
A Genomic Surveillance area of the State Health Surveillance Center (CEVS) was developed which involved training 15 professionals, coordinated by CADDE Principal Investigator, Dr Ester Sabino due to pioneering sequencing of COVID-19 earlier this year. The group developed projects using the MinION from Oxford Nanopore for genetic sequencing, and were trained by members of the …
27th October 2020
On the 27th October 2020, CADDE Principal Investigator, Dr Ester Cerdeira Sabino and CADDE Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Jaqueline Goes De Jesus, were named personalities of the year by the British Chamber of Commerce. The Board and the Executive Committees of Britcham elected them both to be honoured and recognised as the “Personalities of the Year …
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4th September 2020
CADDE Principal Investigator Dr Ester Sabino and CADDE Postdoctoral Researcher Dr Jaqueline Goes De Jesus were portrayed in ‘A Cientista Negra’ due to their scientific contributions. The municipal project for the culture of São Paulo is a program developed to enhance cultural initiatives.
2nd August 2020
On the 2nd August 2020 the CADDE Publication ‘Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the COVID-19 epidemic in Brazil’ was included in COVID Reference Top 10. CADDE Principal Investigator, Dr Nuno Rodrigues Faria, Dr Julio Croda and colleagues present and contextualise Brazilian COVID-19 cases for March, April and May 2020. Full-text
15th May 2020
On Monday 18th May at 2pm BST / 10am BRT there will be a webinar about the recent publication Report 21 – Estimating COVID-19 cases and reproduction number in Brazil. Dr Samir Bhatt and Dr Thomas Mellan from the Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health, Imperial College London will be discussing modelling COVID-19 transmission …
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7th March 2020
CADDE principal investigator Ester Sabino and postdoc Jaqueline Goes de Jesus have been honored by Mauricio de Sousa creator of Monica’s Gang or Monica and Friends (in Portuguese Turma da Mônica) for their work on leading coronavirus genome sequencing in Brazil. The project, entitled “Donas da Rua”, celebrates important women in the areas of science, arts, and politics, among …
5th March 2020
CADDE generates first COVID-19 genomes from South America We provide a brief report and phylogenetic analysis of the first confirmed COVID-2 cases in Brazil. The first genome and report were generated in less than 48 hours upon confirmatory diagnostic at Instituto Adolfo Lutz. From the COVID-19 suspected cases, two have so far tested positive for …
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19th February 2020
Note: We have decided to postpone the CADDE Workshop on Spatial Analysis for Decision Making on Arbovirus Control due to the increasing impact of COVID-19 worldwide. Those who have already submitted their application will receive further instructions by email. CADDE Workshop on Spatial Analysis for Decision Making on Arbovirus Control From: New dates will be …
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