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Newsletter - Issue 60 |
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Tomorrow, registrations for indications of senior researchers to the Medalha do Mérito Científico Carlos Chagas award will be open
Nominations will be evaluated from August 1 to 7. On August 8, the BSTM will disclose the winner, who will be granted with a medal during the Congress' opening ceremony The scientists who made great contributions to Tropical Medicine will also be honored in the Congress of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine (2016 MEDTROP). During the event, to be held from August 21 to 24 in Maceió, Alagoas, for the first time the Medalha do Mérito Científico Carlos Chagas (Carlos Chagas Scientific Merit Medal) will be granted. Nominations of researchers to receive the award can be made from July 16 to 30. 
Evaluation criteria remain unaltered Among them, the relevance of the theme, theoretic consistency and the applied methodology Rules for the Young Researcher Award will change in this year's editionThe Young Researcher Award will have news in 2016. The youngsters, who until now ran against each other, now will be split into 4 different categories: graduation, masters, doctorate and post-doctorate. Besides this, three awars will be given for each category: the winners will be granted R$1,000.00, while the second and third places will receive special mentions. At all, there will be 12 awards. In the prior editions, there were 
Besides the sum of R$ 1,500 in cash for the winners of the TV and Printed Media categories, the winners will be invited to join the 52nd Congress of the BSTM More than 250 articles are running for the 2016 Tropical Journalist AwardThe third edition of the Tropical Journalist Award by the Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine (BSTM) received 253 registered articles, from which 94 were in the TV category and 159 in the Printed Media category. The following newspapers and stations are competing for the prize: Jornal do Comércio from Porto Alegre; O Regional de Catanduva; Folha de Londrina; Diário de Pernambuco; Pesquisa FAPESP magazine;
2016 MEDTROP preliminary program is online
The event will also save room for several other debates among them, the new tools in Tropical Pathology With the emergence of the Zika virus, transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the theme could not be left aside of the... |
Chair of the 2016 MEDTROP highlights the event's last arrangements and main themes
We tried to focus on the current epidemics in Brazil's cities, as Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya, but we kept the discussion of other themes important for health Everything is almost ready for the 52nd Congress of the Brazilian Society of Tropical medicine, to be held from August 21 to 24 in Maceió, Alagoas. As the event gets closer, this year's Chair to the event, Doctor Fernando de Araújo... 
Malaria piles misery on the Thanchi people Thailand dengue update, Mahidol University’s sterilized mosquito experiment Emerging arboviral diseases and new challenges for public health in Brazil Hansen’s disease bacteria ‘disguises’ as a virus and tricks the immune system Florida reports the first baby with Zika virus-related microcephaly 
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Below is a selection of for this month of july of publications related to Tropical Medicine from important international journals. A blood RNA signature for tuberculosis disease risk: a prospective cohort study Prospective Study of Acute HIV-1 Infection in Adults in East Africa and Thailand 
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