Pew Charitable Trusts Funds Four Biomedical Research Partnerships in Latin America
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- The Pew Charitable Trusts has awarded four pairs of Latin American researchers a total of $180,000 each to pursue interdisciplinary biomedical research projects. This funding, distributed over two years at $90,000 annually, aims to foster scientific collaboration and networking within the region.
Four pairs of scientists, all alumni of Pew's Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences, will receive the grants. The program, which has supported nearly 350 scientists from across Latin America since 1991, has once again demonstrated its commitment to advancing biomedical research.
Luis F. Larrondo, a 2004 Pew Latin American Fellow from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, will collaborate with Gerardo Cárcamo-Oyarce, also a fellow from the same institution. Their project will establish a new, light-based platform for studying the formation of biofilms by the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Priscilla Olsen, a 2016 Pew Latin American Fellow from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), will team up with Beatriz Patricio, a fellow from the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). Together, they will develop and test a new strategy to overcome antimicrobial drug resistance.
Paulo José P. L. Teixeira, a 2013 Pew Latin American Fellow from the Universidade de São Paulo, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, will work with Antonio Camargo, a fellow from the same university. Their research will focus on examining plant immune receptor specificity.
Marcelo Yanovsky, a 2000 Pew Latin American Fellow from the Fundación Instituto Leloir - CONICET, will collaborate with Esteban Beckwith, a fellow from the Instituto de Investigación en Biomedicina de Buenos Aires - CONICET - Partner Institute of the Max Plank Society. They will study how organisms regulate gene expression in response to environmental stress.
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