STI FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
BRICS STI FP: BRICS Call 2020 - RESULTS

01 February 2021

A total of 111 proposals have been submitted in response to the BRICS STI Framework Programme Call 2020: Response to COVID-19 global pandemic. 12 projects have been selected for support as an outcome of the call.

 


 

 

BRICS STI FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
Call 2020: Response to COVID-19 global pandemic

                             

List of successful projects

 

 

Registration number (BRICS2020-) and Acronym

Full Title

Country

PI

Organization

National funding organization

1

010 - COVID-AI

Multidisciplinary platform based on artificial intelligence for accelerating drug discovery and repurposing for COVID-19

BRAZIL

Carolina Horta Andrade

Federal University of Goias

CNPq

RUSSIA

Vadim Makarov

Federal Research Center "Fundamentals of Biotechnology"  RAS

RFBR

SOUTH AFRICA

Kelly Chibale

University of Cape Town

SAMRC

2

027 - GSSEMMCP

Genomic sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 and studies on the epidemiology and mathematical modelling of the COVID-19 pandemic

BRAZIL

Marilda Mendonça Siqueira

Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazilian MoH

CNPq

RUSSIA

Ivan Sobolev

Federal Research Center of Fundamental and Translational Medicine

RFBR

INDIA

Ch. Sasikala

JNT University Hyderabad

DST

CHINA

Yuhua Xin

Institute of Microbiology, CAS

NSFC


3

033 - BRICSmart

BRICS-ICT Alliance for Smart Resource Utilization to Combat Global Pandemic Outbreaks

BRAZIL

Esther Luna Colombini

University of Campinas

CNPq

RUSSIA

Vladimir Sudakov

Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, RAS

RFBR

SOUTH AFRICA

Hanlie Smuts

University of Pretoria

SAMRC

4

048 - MFQuantiC

Multi-level framework for quantitative analysis of COVID-19 Pandemic: mathematical modeling approaches

BRAZIL

Daniel Villela

Oswaldo Cruz Foundation

CNPq

RUSSIA

Eduard Vladimirovich Karamov

National Medical Research Center of Phthisiopulmonology and Infectious Diseases

RFBR

CHINA

Jingyuan Wang

Beihang University, School of Computer Science

NSFC

5

049 - NGS-BRICS

SARS-CoV-2 Network for Genomic Surveillance in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa

BRAZIL

Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos

National Laboratory for Scientific Computation - LNCC/MCTI

CNPq

RUSSIA

Georgii Bazykin

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

RFBR

INDIA

Arindam Maitra

National Institute of Biomedical Genomics

DBT

CHINA

Mingkun Li

Beijing Institute of Genomics, CAS

NSFC

SOUTH AFRICA

Tulio de Oliveira

University of KwaZulu-Natal

SAMRC

6

051 - ABRICOT

Impact of COVID-19 on clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment outcome and immune response for pulmonary tuberculosis

BRAZIL

Valeria Cavalcanti Rolla

National Institute of Infectious Diseases Evandro Chagas, FIOCRUZ

CNPq

INDIA

Subash Babu

National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, ICMR

DBT

SOUTH AFRICA

Bavesh Kana

University of the Witwatersrand

SAMRC

7

071 - RDCEEA-S-C-2NND

Research and development and clinical effect evaluation of anti-SARS-CoV-2 new nucleoside drugs

BRAZIL

Renato Martins da Silva

Galzu Institute for Research

CNPq

RUSSIA

Mariia Sergeeva

Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza

RFBR

CHINA

Jijie Chai

Tsinghua University

NSFC

8

085 - ChitoTarCoV

Chitosan-based carriers and targeted delivery systems for clinically approved/repurposed anti-SARS-CoV-2 drugs and disinfectants

BRAZIL

Thiago Moreno L. Souza

Center for Technological Development in Health, FIOCRUZ

CNPq

RUSSIA

Andrey Vladimirovich Shibaev

Moscow State University

RFBR

CHINA

Jun Liu

National Institution for Viral Disease Control and Prevention

NSFC

9

086 - MULTICON-19

COVID-19: Integrated multi-scale spread model and control strategies

BRAZIL

Elbert E. N. Macau

Federal University of Sao Paulo

CNPq

RUSSIA

Mikhail Kirillin

Institute of Applied Physics RAS

RFBR

CHINA

Ming Tang

East China Normal University

NSFC

10

101 - IMPAC19TB

Epidemiological impact and intersection of the COVID-19 and tuberculosis pandemics in Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa

BRAZIL

Anete Trajman

State University of Rio de Janeiro

CNPq

RUSSIA

Yakov Sh. Schwartz

Novosibirsk Tuberculosis Research Institute

RFBR

INDIA

Kuldeep S. Sachdeva

National TB Elimination Program

DBT

SOUTH AFRICA

Anneke Hesseling

Desmond Tutu TB Centre

SAMRC

11

115 - BRICS/COVID-UFPB

Epidemiological features and geospatial evaluation of COVID-19: Correlation with comorbidities and prognostic biomarkers between SARS-CoV-2 and Mycobacterium tuberculosis

BRAZIL

Tatjana Keesen de Souza Lima

Federal University of Paraíba

CNPq

INDIA

Sanghamitra Pati

ICMR-RMRC Bhubaneswar

DST

SOUTH AFRICA

Uchechukwu Nwodo

University of Fort Hare

SAMRC

12

127 -

Repurposing of drugs and validation of lead compounds against main protease and RNA dependent RNA polymerase of SARS-CoV-2

BRAZIL

Lindomar Jose Pena

Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães, FIOCRUZ

CNPq

RUSSIA

Vladimir Potemkin

South Ural State University

RFBR

INDIA

Dhruv Kumar

Amity University Uttar Pradesh

DST

SOUTH AFRICA

Anil Chuturgoon

University of KwaZulu-Natal

SAMRC

 

                                                                                                              

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