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Thematic Projects and Regular Research Awards supported by FAPESP in Leishmania research.

 
All projects in PDF format:

• Leishmania Research
• Leishmania Research (part 2)
• Pheromone Research

 

Thematic Projects:

• Animal toxins: structure, function and biotechnological applications - Suely Vilela (USP)
• Biochemical and physiological aspects of Leishmania infection - Lucile Maria Floeter Winter (USP)
• Cell organization in the differentiation and in the cell cycle of Trypanosoma - Sergio Schenkman (UNIFESP)
• Control of gene expression and genetic plasticity in Leishmania - Angela Kaysel Cruz (USP)
• Determinants and consequences of asymptomatic carriage of malaria parasites: population-based studies in rural Brazilian Amazonia - Marcelo Urbano Ferreira (USP)
• Development of an alternative method to calculate core electron binding energies (CEBEs) of molecules, and evaluation of its applicability in drug design - Yuji Takahata (UNICAMP)
• Ecoepidemiology of American Tegumentary Leishmaniasis in Brazil. States of São Paulo and of Pernambuco. Endemic areas of old colonization, corresponding to the Atlantic rainforest zone - Jeffrey Jon Shaw (USP)
• Genetic variability and susceptibility to infections in populations of Brazilian western Amazonia - Henrique Krieger (USP)
• G protein coupled receptors and chemosensation - Bettina Malnic (USP)
• Immunopathogenical mechanisms involved in the evolution of experimental and human American tegumentar Leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonenzis - Carlos Eduardo Pereira Corbett (USP)
• Leishmaniasis in Brazil: clinical and immunopathogenetic aspects of the human and experimental disease- Carlos Eduardo Pereira Corbett (USP)
• Membrane microdomains enriched in (glyco) (sphingo) lipds and sterols: organization, function and cell signaling - Hélio Kiyoshi Takahashi (UNIFESP)
• Natural products from marine invertebrates: potential chemotherapic anti-proliferative, antibiotic and against tropical diseases agents - Roberto Gomes de Souza Berlinck (USP)
• Phytochemistry and chemical ecology: search for starter compounds for new insecticidal, fungicidal and bactericidal drugs for control of plant pests - Maria Fátima das Graças Fernandes da Silva (UFSCAR)
• Pure research applied to Rondônia - Marcello André Barcinski (USP)
• Reactive species derived from oxygem, nitrogen and carbon. Interactions and pathophysiological significance - Ohara Augusto (USP)
• Reactive species of oxygen, nitrogen and transition metals: interactions and relevance in physiological and pathological processes - Ohara Augusto (USP)
• Recognition of carbohydrates: roles played in the parasite-host relationship - Maria Cristina Roque (USP)
• Regulation of the Immune Response in Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania sp. Infections - Ises de Almeida Abrahamsohn (USP)
• Substrates and peptidic inhibitors for proteolytic enzymes - Luiz Juliano Neto (UNIFESP)
• The regulatory T cells and Th17 in the immune response against infections, tumors and autoimmune diseases - João Santana da Silva (USP) 

Regular Research Awards:

• Characterization of genes identified in the H locus of Leishmania spp - Luiz Ricardo Orsini Tosi (USP)
• Development of A serological ELISA test using recombinant L. infantum Hsp83 antigen in canine visceral leishmaniosis - Hiro Goto (USP)
• Evaluation of the proteinaceous aggregate of ammonium and magnesium phospholinoleate-palmitoleate as an immunomodulator for treating visceral leishmaniasis  symptomatic dogs - Valéria Marçal Felix de Lima (UNESP)
• Investigating the function of Leishmania LR17 proteins - Silvia Reni Bortolin Uliana (USP)
• Life expectancy extension and cytoplast infection by non-viral intracellular pathogens - Michel Pinkus Rabinovitch (UNIFESP)
• Selenocysteine biosynthesis: structural studies and RNAi validation - Otavio Henrique Thiemann (USP)
• The recombinant Leishmania (Leishmania) ‘chagasi’ cysteine protease rLdccys1: a target for diagnosis and protective immunity of dogs in an endemic visceral leishmaniasis area in Brazil, Teresina, Piauí State - Clara Lúcia Barbiéri Mestriner (UNIFESP)