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The CNPq was started in 1951, and has a leading role in conducting and formulating research about technology, science and also innovation. The goal [ 2 ] of the CNPq is to promote science, technology and innovation and act in the formulation of their policies which thereby will lead to taking the frontier in knowledge, national sovereignty and ...
The Lattes Platform is an information system (integrated database, web-based query interface, etc.) maintained by the Brazilian federal government to manage information on science, technology, and innovation related to individual researches and institutions working in Brazil.
Carlos Chagas Filho (September 10, 1910 – February 16, 2000) was a Brazilian physician, biologist and scientist active in the field of neuroscience. He was internationally renowned for his investigations on the neural mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of electrogenesis by the electroplaques of electric fishes .
In the 1940s fisherman Henrique Penna from the Rockefeller Foundation in Rio de Janeiro reported that he had discovered cases of leishmaniasis in Brazil's countryside. [1] The disease had not been previously detected in Brazil, and as a response, Carlos Chagas of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute organized a commission leishmaniasis to be headed by his son Evandro Chagas.
Carlos Chagas, age 4. Chagas was the son of José Justiniano das Chagas, a coffee farmer at Juiz de Fora in Minas Gerais, and Mariana Cândida Chagas (née Ribeiro de Castro), both of Portuguese descent. [2] His birth place is also recorded as Oliveira, his mother's hometown, [3] where the family spent half of their times. He was the eldest of ...
Carlos Chagas is a Brazilian municipality located in the northeast of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2020 [update] was 18,674 living in a total area of 3,199 km 2 . [ 1 ] The city belongs to the statistical mesoregion of Vale do Mucuri and to the statistical microregion of Nanuque .
The formal description of Chagas disease was made by Carlos Chagas in 1909 after examining a two-year-old girl with fever, swollen lymph nodes, and an enlarged spleen and liver. [58] Upon examination of her blood, Chagas saw trypanosomes identical to those he had recently identified from the hindgut of triatomine bugs and named Trypanosoma ...
Helena Maria de Freitas Chagas (born 13 October 1961) is a Brazilian journalist. The daughter of political journalist Carlos Chagas, she served as Secretary of Social Communication for the Presidency of Brazil from 2011 to 2014. Today, she is a communication consultant and sporadically writes for the Jornal O Globo's Blog do Noblat.