Recently, Mauro Nogueira da Silva, Master of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Universidade de Sao Paulo at Ribeirao Preto, was awarded a DAAD/CAPES fellowship in order to start his doctorate work at the University of Münster under supervision of T. J. Schmidt. Mr. Nogueira will pursue a research project within the cooperation between his supervisor and F. B. da Costa (Ribeirao Preto) within ResNetNPND, starting in April 2012 after a six month German course.