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Prof. Fernando B. Da Costa, first holder of the WWU Brazil Chair Professorship, starts work at IPBP

[Sept. 05, 2012].
Da CostaProf. Fernando Batista Da Costa from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, as the first Brazilian researcher, has recently been selected for the Brazil chair professorship at WWU, funded by the Brazilian CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior).
Professor Da Costa (link to his CV) begins his six-month stay at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology and Phytochemistry (IPBP), WWU Muenster, on Sept. 05, 2012.
Fernando Da Costa, former director of the Natural Products Division of the Brazilian Chemical Society, is one of Brazil's top natural products chemists and a member of the Research Network Natural Products against Neglected Diseases (ResNetNPND). In the course of his guest professorship at WWU he will work together with the group of Prof. Thomas Schmidt at IPBP, with a main focus on the in silico evaluation of the antiinfective potential of natural products against tropical neglected diseases.