(Jan. 11) – The Brazilian government has awarded a scholarship “Pesquisador Visitante Especial”, to expand academic cooperation with their counterparts in Brazilian universities, to research groups of Stefano Luciano Ciurli, professor at the Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, and Gastone Castellani, professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Bologna. Ciurli’s research – as stated on the website of the University of Bologna – will be conducted at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in the laboratory Laprotox (Laboratório de proteinas Tóxicas) directed by Professor Celia R. Carlini, specializing in the study of plant toxic proteins. Castellani’s Scientific research, instead, focuses on the biological and statistical studies of human aging and will be conducted with the research group of José Carlos Merino Mombach, professor at the Department of Physics of the Federal University of Santa Maria. (Red)
