8th March 2021
On International Women’s Day, the Dean of Research and the Office of Careers (ECar) promoted an event dedicated to discussing women’s careers in science and to honor researchers from the University of São Paulo. The virtual event ‘Women in Science’ presented the delivery of the Women in Science Award – Highlights 2020, to the ten …
23rd February 2021
The story of CADDE’s research mapping SARS-CoV-2 has been published in the project, ‘De Pelotas A Boa Vista: parcerias científicas para enfrentar a pandemia’, along with four other highlighted research cases about COVID-19 in Brazil. CADDE is the first case; launched by Bori Agência on the 23 February. Read more: A publication on scientific partnerships …
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22nd January 2021
Read about how CADDE researchers are studying the rise in SARS-CoV-2 cases in Manaus and the new mutations in this editorial in Science, featuring the two recent posts in Virological that characterise the emergent lineage. Read the article in Science here
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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