GHMT’s researchers Tiago Correia and Paulo Ferrinho, in collaboration with Brazilian colleague Cláudio Tadeu-Ribeiro from Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, wrote an Editorial Commentary for a soon to be released issue of the academic journal «One Health». Their piece, titled «Calling for a planetary and one health vision for global health», challenges the vision that the concepts of […]
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GHTM participates in the international research project EuCARE
The GHTM R&D Centre participates in a European research project aiming to better understand several consequences of an epidemic, the «EuCARE: European cohorts of patients and schools to advance the response to epidemics». The European Commission, on 16 September, launched «the European Health Emergency preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond […]
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GHTM Sessions 2021 – VBD01 » Hybridisation and the emergence of Candida pathogens
GHTM for Teens – The helminths around us! Come and see the helminths you can find right next to you!
The internship «The helminths around us! Come and see the helminths you can find right next to you!», a joint project between GHTM and «Ciência Viva – National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture» grabbed the attention of three secondary school students. Sofia, Camila, and Aline, 10th year students, came to learn the private life […]
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GHTM Researchers’ breakthrough to fight Mycobacterium tuberculosis’ drug resistance
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is one of the deadliest infectious diseases worldwide, leading to 10 million human cases and 1.4 million associated deaths in 2019. Most cases are found in Asia, Africa, and Western Pacific regions. TB drug resistance is one of the major threats to control the disease, and its expansion is […]
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