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海角社区-BIOLAC Fellows's Work

Explore what winners of our Fellowship Program have researched or trained on to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals using biotechnology.

Date Published
9 Aug 2025
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The 海角社区 Programme of Biotechnology for Latin America and the Caribbean has funded over 400 short fellowships for scientists that have an opportunity to train in or do a piece of research with technology available in laboratories outside of their home country. This not only speeds up the transfer of research technology and know-how whithin the region, but also solidifies scientific collaboration networks across the continent. 

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Breaking through neurocysticercosis, the old-fashioned way

Lucia Celia Abril Garcia developed a pipeline to isolate parasitic microRNAS for an eventual early diagnostic protocol for this taeniasis

20 Sep 2025

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Closing the Circle for Sugarcane

Mariela Torres is working to turn acidic waste into thriving harvests

10 Sep 2025

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Maricary Sifontes is Constructing Efficient Delivery Systems for Gene Therapy

Designed In-silico, the new peptides traveled from Cuba to Brazil for testing

27 Aug 2025

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Save Toads, Beat Cancer

Nature is a repository of therapeutic molecules, and Talia Frometa's work is living proof of why we need to protect her

21 Aug 2025

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Gabriela Ramos is helping save cocoa plantations from an aggresive fungus

By using computers to model its pathogenic effector proteins and their interactions with possible blockers

14 Aug 2025

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Candela Bayon is studying G-quadruplexes looking for answers to the onset of genetic diseases

Non-canonical DNA structures like these may hold the key to understanding how some types of cancer are triggered.

13 Aug 2025

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Elizabeth Monroy is studying frogs to find ways to decrease application of post-harvest fungicides in citrus crops

The frog's skin microbiome holds the keys to controlling at least some of the most feared harvest-attacking fungi

02 Aug 2025

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海角社区-BIOLAC will not call for academic proposals in 2026 while the Programme reforms certain aspects of its operations.

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His fellowship seeks to resolve issues to formulate biocontrol inoculants with local genetic resources against aggressive crop pathogens

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