Brazil Earmarks US$ 1.8 Million for Stem Cell Research

Following the approval of the Biosecurity Law last week, the Brazilian government announced that it will make US$ 1.8 million (5 million reais) available for stem cell research.

The official regulations for obtaining these funds will be published on March 29. The resources will be used for research to be conducted over the next two years.


In an interview on National Radio, Carla Rodrigues, a specialist in the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Health, informed that all research groups are eligible to compete for these funds.


“All we are soliciting initially is prior experience in the pre-clinical or clinical area,” she stated.


The groups will have to demonstrate infrastructure, technical and scientific capacity, and preliminary results on the topic of the research project.


Once the requirements have been met, the groups and hospitals engaged in research training will compete with one another to receive the programmed financial incentives.


Rodrigues underscores that the investment will contribute to increasing research in the area of cell therapy, strengthen this activity in the country and the world, and benefit public health agencies by making more advanced technologies available.


According to Rodrigues, the Ministry of Health has already taken some initiatives in this area.


She said that the Blood Bank of Umbilical Cords and Placentas was created last year to publish research based on material derived from umbilical cord blood, a source of stem cells.


“Other initiatives are related to the utilization of bone marrow stem cells in cases of the process referred to as cell therapy in the treatment of heart disease, which is also getting started now with a total funding of around US$ 4.8 million (13 million reais),” she pointed out.


Translation: David Silberstein
Agência Brasil

Tags:

You May Also Like

Brazil’s 7.5% Expansion Comes at a Cost of a Record Deficit

The Brazilian 12-month current account deficit widened to a record high in September as ...

Despite Crisis Brazil’s Textile Beats Ethanol Two to One in Revenue

Showing the world what textile goods Brazil produces – from fiber to clothes. That ...

Brazil and Argentina Create Mechanism to Regulate Bilateral Trade

Argentina and Brazil agreed on the incorporation of a Competition Adaptation Mechanism, MAC, to ...

In Haiti Till They Send Us Home, Says Brazil’s Lula

Brazilian troops leading the U.N. peacekeeping force in Haiti will stay there for as ...

Brazil’s Debt Is the Talk of 19 Countries

Specialists in the administration of government debt from 19 Latin American and Caribbean countries ...

The Media Barons of Brazil

Senators Antonio Carlos Magalhães and José Sarney are the longest-living Brazilian oligarchs. What differentiates ...

Brazilians and Arabs Discuss Cooperation on Social Development

This week, one more chapter of the Summit of South American-Arab Countries (Aspa) should ...

After US and Germany, Brazilian Exporters Get Distribution Center in Portugal

The creation of a Distribution Center (CD) for Brazilian Products in Vialonga/Lisbon, Portugal, was ...

Brazil Has More Lebanese than Lebanon

Lebanese immigration to Brazil began officially in around 1880, four years after the visit ...

Imagine

A coalition of Brazilian unions claimed that the Porto Alegre forum was merely concerned ...

WordPress database error: [Table './brazzil3_live/wp_wfHits' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed]
SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM `wp_wfHits`