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FAPESP announces result of call for proposals with Belgium foundation Versão em português

Opportunity in partnership with FWO will support fifteen scientific collaborations in basic scientific research.

FAPESP announces the result of a call for proposals launched in March this year with the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), from Belgium. In total, fifteen proposals were selected.

The call was the fourth opportunity for bilateral collaboration between researchers from São Paulo and Belgium organized in the history of the cooperation agreement signed between the institutions.

Researchers from the state of São Paulo and Belgium were invited to jointly develop proposals for scientific collaboration in basic scientific research, in all areas of knowledge. FAPESP will support the selected projects through the Regular Research Grant modality for three years.

Selected proposals:

Giving a ‘Cluster Twist’ to Photocatalysis: Sustainable Photocatalysts for Pharmaceutically Relevant Reactions
Grant number 2024/08384-7
PI: Igor Jurberg (UNICAMP)
PI abroad: Francisco de Azambuja (KU Leuven)

Global Hypoellipticity and Solvability on Product Manifolds
Grant number 2024/08416-6
PI: Paulo Dattori da Silva (USP São Carlos)
PI abroad: Michael Ruzhansky (Ghent University)

Role of Panx1 channels and Cx43 hemichannels as new therapeutic targets in the paracrine signalling circuit between hepatic stellate cells and hepatocellular carcinoma cells established in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis
Grant number 2024/08432-1
PI: Bruno Cogliati (Universidade de São Paulo)
PI abroad: Mathieu Vinken (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Street-level bureaucrats in the eye of the populist storm? Lessons from municipal transitions of power
Grant number 2024/08453-9
PI: Gabriela Lotta (Fundação Getulio Vargas)
PI abroad: Steven Van de Walle (KU Leuven)

Singing in between the cracks: Intracultural dialogues of sounding practices in virtual environments (Cantando F(r)estas)
Grant number 2024/08516-0
PI: Ana Cristina Colla (UNICAMP)
PI abroad: Pieter-Jan Maes (Ghent University)

Mechanisms of Plasmodium vivax chloroquine resistance: a transcriptomic/transgenic approach (PvRESIST)
Grant number 2024/08535-5
PI: Roberto Moraes Barros Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
PI abroad: Anna Rosanas-Urgell (Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp)

Functional study of the Yanomami microbiota: Investigating its impact on immunity and colorectal cancer development
Grant number 2024/08541-5
PI: Luciana Paulino (Universidade Federal do ABC - Santo André)
PI abroad: Lars Vereecke (Ghent University)

Understanding future Amazon forest dynamics and microclimate buffering through a Free Air CO2 Experiment
Grant number 2024/08543-8
PI: Tomas Ferreira Domingues (Universidade de São Paulo)
PI abroad: Kim Calders (Ghent University)

Governance of social practices in global value chains: A comparative study of lead and supplier firms
Grant number 2024/08548-0
PI: Priscila Miguel (FGV EAESP)
PI abroad: Filip De Beule (KU Leuven)

Revolutionizing the tissue engineering realm: Patient-specific living implants at the speed of light
Grant number 2024/08578-6
PI: Luiz Henrique Catalani (Universidade de São Paulo)
PI abroad: Sandra Van Vlierberghe (Ghent University)

Solving barriers to time-resolved 3D x-ray imaging with a new data acquisition and processing paradigm
Grant number 2024/08590-6
PI: Nathaly Lopes Archilha (Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais)
PI abroad: Matthieu Boone (Ghent University)

Advancing In Vitro Brain tumor Models: Harnessing Organ-on-a-Chip and Organoid Technologies for Cancer Immunotherapy Testing
Grant number 2024/08593-5
PI: Keith Oswaldo Okamoto (Universidade de São Paulo)
PI abroad: Adrian Ranga (KU Leuven)

Novel nitrogen containing fused scaffolds for medicinal chemistry
Grant number 2024/08603-0
PI: Flavio Emery (Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto)
PI abroad: Wim Dehaen (KU Leuven)

Defects in Low-Dimensional Photovoltaic Absorber Materials: a First-Principles Study
Grant number 2024/08610-7
PI: Matheus Paes Lima (Universidade Federal de São Carlos)
PI abroad: Dirk Lamoen (University of Antwerp)

AxiTop: Hunting for axion-like particles with top quarks at the high-energy frontier
Grant number 2024/08628-3
PI: Thiago Rafael Fernandez Perez Tomei (Universidade Estadual Paulista)
PI abroad: Didar Dobur (Ghent University)