GloPID-R member
GloPID-R member
The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) is a public foundation funded by the taxpayer in the State of São Paulo.The Foundation’s aim is to support research projects in higher education and research institutions, in all fields of knowledge. The São Paulo State constitution stipulates that 1% of all state taxes must go to the Foundation and the government transfers these funds monthly. Thanks to the stablility of funding and the Foundation’s autonomy, resources are managed efficiently and make a significant impact.
The Foundation works in close contact with the scientific community. All proposals are peer reviewed by local expert panels composed of active researchers.
The Foundation also supports large research programs in areas such as health sciences, biodiversity, bioenergy, global climate change, and e-Science.
“For FAPESP, being part of the GloPID-R network is extremely important so that we can be aligned with other funders in the effort to prepare and respond to infectious diseases with pandemic and epidemic potential. Working in a network, sharing data and experience, is the best way to provide an adequate and efficient response. FAPESP is committed to bringing solutions to diverse health challenges in our community through scientific research and innovation.”
Reinaldo Salomão
Professor and Director, Sepsis Research Laboratory
EPM/Unifesp, Division of Infectious Diseases,
Senior Scientific Advisor
São Paulo Research Foundation – FAPESP
Program for supporting collaborative research between universities, research institutions and businesses
FAPESP finances a wide range of research projects on infectious diseases with pandemic and epidemic potential. Here are some current examples:
This research plan is firmly grounded in the analysis of mechanisms and pathways of normal and abnormal stem cells to serve as targets or to help manipulate cells for therapy. The research team includes specialists in cell and molecular biology, embryology, genomics, bioinformatics, veterinary medicine, hematology, and oncology. The technology transfer plan involves cooperation with the private sector and with the government, the education of a new generation of scientists and technicians, and the direct transfer of high quality services to the public. The education plan is focused mainly in a long-term relationship of teachers and middle-school students with the center, researchers, and PhD students.
In the Rapid Implementation Supplements for COVID-19 call, researchers redirected resources from their grants towards topics related to COVID-19 and were approved for funding and postdoctoral fellowships under the Rapid Implementation Supplement to Regular Grants (APR-SRI).
Projects selected in the Rapid Implementation Supplements for COVID-19 call.
Projects selected in the Technologies for Combating COVID-19 call.
In addition, FAPESP has launched the COVID-19 Data Sharing/BR, Brazil’s first open data repository containing demographic data and clinical and laboratory test results from patients tested for COVID-19 in laboratory units across the country and hospitals in the State of São Paulo.
The repository hosts opened and anonymized data initially from more than 177,000 patients, 9,634 outcome data, and a total of nearly 5 million clinical and laboratory test results from across the country by the Fleury Group and in the city of São Paulo by the Israelita Albert Einstein and Sírio-Libanês hospitals since November 2019.
The database is the result of an initiative by FAPESP in partnership with the University of São Paulo (USP) and aims to share anonymized clinical information from patients to support scientific research on the disease in various fields of knowledge.
FAPESP maintains cooperation agreements with national and international research funding agencies, higher educational and research institutions and businesses. International cooperation covers a broad range of countries and agencies.
FAPESP offers many programs to support foreign scientists willing to work in research institutions in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. These include: post-doctoral fellowships, young investigator awards and visiting researcher grants.
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The GloPID-R Secretariat is a project which receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101094188.