This week in Podcast 45 gradesThe guest is biologist María Manuel Mota, a world-renowned malaria researcher. He received his PhD in Molecular Parasitology from University College London, UK, and researched malaria and returned to Portugal in 2002, where he continued to develop work that has earned him many distinctions. Since 2014, she has also held the position of Executive Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Lisbon.
Throughout the conversation, he talked about the progress made in recent years in malaria research, including a new malaria vaccine being tested by the University of Oxford. María Manuel Mota explains what causes malaria, how it affects humans, and why it manifests itself differently in different people
The researcher also talks about the importance of research in basic sciences (a field in which it is difficult to attract a doctorate) and about the strengths and limitations that Portugal suffers from in scientific research, in addition to the problems of the current publishing and scientific evaluation system in its stage.
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