RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND DISSEMINATION CENTERS (CEPIDs)
The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) supports CEPIDs selected for funding for a period of up to eleven years. Each Center is expected to establish a hub of research excellency in its focus area. In addition, each CEPID must actively seek out and develop opportunities to have its research results contribute to commercially and/or socially relevant high-impact applications, as well as contributing to education and dissemination of knowledge.
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Food Research Center (FoRC)
The main goal of the Food Research Center is to address key global challenges and develop fundamental, strategic and applied research to benefit Brazilian agribusiness, consumers, policymakers and regulatory agencies.
Bernadette Dora Gombossy de Melo Franco
bfranco@usp.br
Center for the Study of Violence (NEV)
It seeks to explore the building of institutional legitimacy between citizens and civil servants, based on aspects such as municipal administration, schools, health centers, police services, and the local court system.
Sergio França Adorno de Abreu
sadorno@usp.br
Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM)
The Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM) is made up of associated university departments, composed of a multi-disciplinary group – demographers, political scientists, sociologists, geographers, and anthropologists – whose research agenda targets the study of contemporary Brazil in an effort to better understand the complex role that public policies and institutions have in promoting economic growth, alleviating poverty, and reducing inequality.
Maria Teresa da Silva Arretche
arretche@usp.br
Center for Research on Inflammatory Diseases (CRID)
The CRID relies on the expertise of researchers from various biomedical fields, bringing together basic and clinical researchers, as well as investigators from the fields of computational medicinal chemistry, chemical synthesis and bioinformatics. The overall objective of the CRID will be to perform integrative and translational research to identify, validate and target known and novel biological pathways involved in the induction and resolution of inflammation. The expected result is the development of innovative therapeutic strategies and drugs that can effectively target inflammatory diseases.
Fernando de Queiroz Cunha
fdqcunha@fmrp.usp.br
Center for Cell-Based Therapy (CTC)
With a focus on advanced and applied research into stem cell (SC) biology, the Center will develop processes for the large-scale production of SCs under good manufacturing practice conditions to enable their potential clinical use. Studies will also be conducted on pluripotent stem cells – embryonic (ESCs) and induced (iPSCs) – and somatic (hematopoietic, mesenchymal, and endothelial) stem cells. The intent is to generate Brazilian ESC lineages to expand their use in preclinical protocols, as well as to investigate the mechanisms involved in pluripotency.
Marco Antonio Zago
marazago@usp.br
Human Genome and Stem-Cell Research Center (HUG-CELL)
It aims to expand the scope of the original Human Genome Research Center to include research into such things as genetics and genomic instability associated with aging and degenerative diseases. The stem cell research is an effort to understand gene expression and differentiation in complex genetic disorders such as autism and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and to evaluate stem cell-based disease therapy.
Mayana Zatz
mayanazatz@usp.br
Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry (CeMEAI)
The main focus of the Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry is to promote the use of mathematical knowledge, applied particularly to mathematics, statistics and computer science, as an industry resource. The goal is to do this within an interdisciplinary setting that emphasizes technology transfer, education and knowledge dissemination for industry and government applications organized by a specially structured research center. The Center’s main strategy is to build a solid infrastructure in terms of human resources, advanced computational equipment, collaboration opportunities and other facilities in order to promote interdisciplinary cooperation with industry and, more specifically, with the manufacturing, government and service sectors.
José Alberto Cuminato
jacumina@icmc.usp.br
Center for Research and Innovation in Biodiversity and Drug Discovery (CIBFar)
The Center for Research and Innovation in Biodiversity and Drug Discovery works with bioprospecting the Brazilian flora with a view towards identifying hits on a broad spectrum of biological activities. The main goal is to perform basic and applied science as well as develop technology in all areas of biodiversity and drug discovery that rely on state-of-the-art methods of natural products chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, molecular and structural biology, biological, biochemical and pharmacological assays, medicinal chemistry and drug design.
Glaucius Oliva
oliva@ifsc.usp.br
Optics and Photonics Research Center (CEPOF)
The research program of this RIDC consists of three main areas: cold-matter physics, plasmonics and biophotonics, fields that are linked by the common theme of light-matter interaction. The Optics and Photonics Research Center (CEPOF) seeks to be a RIDC in which cutting-edge fundamental and applied research in the field of optics and photonics can advance together. The research program consists of cold-matter physics, plasmonics and biophotonics. In parallel, the Center will advance fundamental knowledge and develop innovative, practical applications.
Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato
vander@ifsc.usp.br
Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (NeuroMat)
The Neuromat integrates mathematical modeling with basic and applied lines of research on the frontier of neuroscience. Mathematical structures hold increasing importance in theoretical neuroscience: the analysis of huge data sets generated by recent experimental developments requires new mathematical tools. Furthermore, the development of suitable mathematical languages and structures is essential to developing theories that explain the underlying phenomena and yield testable predictions.
Jefferson Antonio Galves
galves@usp.br
Center for Research on Redox Processes in Biomedicine (REDOXOME)
The Center for Research on Redox Processes in Biomedicine will address issues involved in overcoming limitations on allowing the design of effective antioxidant strategies and biomarkers of oxidative stress.
Ohara Augusto
oaugusto@iq.usp.br