Flávia Sousa

Neuroprosthetics: How electronics can be used to mimic the biology in our brain The human brain is made up of anything between 80 and 100 billion neurons. How exactly these basic working units communicate with each other and transmit information through electrical impulses at the synapses, is a crucial matter…

Ankita is working on nano-fiber filters that efficiently remove particles and enable good flow with the help of surface coating technology. These two functions are mutually exclusive in conventional filters.

EDGE brings Neuroscience to the public with art, educating and sharing with creativity, humanising scientific research and fostering artistic innovation. Co-founded by the nominee, the project engages with research institutes, attracts public funding to host exhibitions and commissions new art about current research. EDGE offers a networking platform for emerging…

@vitadecisions provides reproductive advice with a bioethical and gender mainstreaming approach to promote reproductive autonomy and respond to the lack of public policies. Tags: Discrimination, Diversity, Education, Gender, reproductive justice, reproductive rights, gender mainstreming, transversality, bioethics.

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Maryna Viazovska, winner of the Fields Medal 2022. She talked about her work on sphere-packing. The interview series provided an intimate personal atmosphere, in which high-level guests, speakers and panelists of the…

There are only twenty-three vaccine preventable diseases today despite hundreds of pathogens which could be vaccine targets and decades of work. Vaccines are very difficult, expensive, and time- consuming to create, develop and distribute. Since Vaxxilon has expertise in carbohydrate chemistry, polysaccharide conjugate vaccines (PCVs) which typically target bacterial pathogens…

How Computational Neuroscience Can Decode Thoughts and Actions When we look at a landscape, listen to a song or recall a memory, what is the exact choreography taking place across the various areas of the brain? – One of the most challenging aspects about the human brain is the question…

Chuan He: Breaking the Wall to a New Green Revolution – Falling Walls Science Summit 2023 Crop scarcity, exacerbated by climate change, presents a daunting challenge for our future food security. Rising global temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, and increased frequency of extreme weather events like droughts and floods directly impact…

Nominated by: JST – Japan Science and Technology Agency Presented by: Amane Kimura

Set the saponin extraction method, formulate the biofungicide product, evaluate its effectiveness against phytopathogen in different crops. Tags: Bio-Tech, Circular Economy, Environment & Nature, Food & Agriculture.