{"id":57449,"date":"2025-07-03T17:35:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T20:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lnbio.cnpem.br\/?p=57449"},"modified":"2025-07-03T18:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:04:38","slug":"returning-to-brazil-cnpem-researcher-shares-scientific-career-in-nature-group-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lnbio.cnpem.br\/en\/returning-to-brazil-cnpem-researcher-shares-scientific-career-in-nature-group-publication\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning to Brazil: CNPEM researcher shares scientific career in Nature group publication"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Article published in\u00a0Nature Structural & Molecular Biology\u00a0shares the challenges of rebuilding a scientific career in Brazil after work abroad<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Researcher Sandra Martha Gomes Dias of the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) was invited by the scientific journal\u00a0Nature Structural & Molecular Biology<\/em>\u00a0to write an article about her trajectory as a Brazilian scientist who, after five years of post-doctoral studies at Cornell University in the US, returned to continue her scientific work and establish a research group at CNPEM.<\/p>\n

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Researcher Sandra Dias at CNPEM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Entitled \u201cReturning Home: Fostering Growth of Brazilian Research,\u201d the article shares the pathways and challenges of rebuilding a scientific career in Brazil after her experiences abroad. Through her personal story, Dias highlights the importance of robust funding programs that offer researchers long-term opportunities and emphasizes the importance of multidisciplinary scientific institutions and well-structured, dynamic research ecosystems in the country, all essential factors for professionals who have been part of what is known as the scientific diaspora to feel motivated to return.<\/p>\n

In her case, FAPESP\u2019s Young Researcher Program and the possibility of working at CNPEM (where she currently coordinates a group dedicated to studying glutamine metabolism in cancer) were decisive to making her feel confident about returning to Brazil.<\/p>\n

The article also addresses structural issues related to the funding of Brazilian science in recent decades, geographical and economic barriers faced by research groups in different regions of the country, and the constant need for resilience and creativity to overcome daily challenges in scientific development.<\/p>\n

\u201cComing home as a principal investigator is not a tale of heroism. It is a story of commitment \u2014 to students, to science, and to the possibility that research can flourish even in imperfect systems,\u201d reads an excerpt from the article.<\/p>\n

The full text is available on the Nature Structural & Molecular Biology website at\u00a0https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41594-025-01609-2<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n

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About CNPEM<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) is home to a state-of-the-art, multi-user and multidisciplinary scientific environment and works on different fronts within the Brazilian National System for Science, Technology and Innovation. A social organization overseen by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), CNPEM is driven by research that impacts the areas of health, energy, renewable materials, and sustainability. It is responsible for Sirius, the largest assembly of scientific equipment constructed in the country, and is currently constructing Project Orion, a laboratory complex for advanced pathogen research. Highly specialized science and engineering teams, sophisticated infrastructure open to the scientific community, strategic lines of investigation, innovative projects involving the productive sector, and training for researchers and students are the pillars of this institution that is unique in Brazil and able to serve as a bridge between knowledge and innovation. CNPEM\u2019s research and development activities are carried out through its four National Laboratories: Synchrotron Light (LNLS), Biosciences (LNBio), Nanotechnology (LNNano), Biorenewables (LNBR), as well as its Technology Unit (DAT) and the Ilum School of Science \u2014 an undergraduate program in Science and Technology supported by the Ministry of Education (MEC).\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sobre o LNBio<\/h3>\n

O Laborat\u00f3rio Nacional de Bioci\u00eancias (LNBio) dedica-se \u00e0 investiga\u00e7\u00e3o da sa\u00fade humana, unindo biologia integrativa e tecnologias avan\u00e7adas. Com compet\u00eancias em edi\u00e7\u00e3o g\u00eanica, sistemas microfisiol\u00f3gicos, bioimagem e engenharia de tecidos, o LNBio busca descobrir alvos moleculares e desenvolver terapias inovadoras para doen\u00e7as de relev\u00e2ncia p\u00fablica. Essa abordagem abrangente, que inclui mol\u00e9culas e organismos vivos, desvenda mecanismos moleculares para identificar compostos bioativos, fundamentais para o desenvolvimento de novos insumos farmac\u00eauticos ativos. O LNBio concentra esfor\u00e7os nas demandas do sistema p\u00fablico de sa\u00fade, utilizando infraestrutura de ponta e modelo matricial de trabalho em prol da inova\u00e7\u00e3o e do desenvolvimento na interse\u00e7\u00e3o entre ci\u00eancia e sa\u00fade. Buscando integrar a sa\u00fade com fatores socioecon\u00f4micos e ambientais, atua como uma plataforma cient\u00edfica \u00e0 disposi\u00e7\u00e3o do Estado, capaz de desenvolver tecnologias avan\u00e7adas para responder a quest\u00f5es estrat\u00e9gicas. O LNBio faz parte do Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais (CNPEM), em Campinas (SP), uma Organiza\u00e7\u00e3o Social supervisionada pelo Minist\u00e9rio da Ci\u00eancia, Tecnologia e Inova\u00e7\u00e3o (MCTI).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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