Eduardo is a fifth-year medical student at the Catholic University of Paraná in the city of Curitiba, southern Brazil. In August he will be travelling to Rotterdam to attend a one-semester programme in research training in Health Sciences at NIHES-Erasmus MC. Eduardo is one of several undergraduate students throughout Brazil to be awarded a Science without Borders scholarship.
A hard worker and a keen participant in extra-curricular activities, he is currently finishing off a research project studying intra-abdominal hypertension and its effects on the kidney. Thanks to a language course in Canada, he also has a head start with his English.
Eduardo is eager to extend this international experience during his visit to the Netherlands. He hopes to learn more about the European approach to the research and care of critically ill patients. He says the knowledge he takes back with him will be used to help improve both the quality and quantity of research in Brazil. While at Erasmus MC he also hopes to establish contacts useful for future collaborations in future research projects.
About Science without Borders – SwB
Science without Borders is a large-scale scholarship programme created and financed by the Brazilian government. It offers Brazilian top students the opportunity to study at a higher education institution in the Netherlands or to carry out research there. Grants are allocated at three levels: bachelors, PhD and post-doctoral.
About the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences – NIHES
The Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES) is an alliance of leading Dutch universities and research institutes that collaborate on quantitative medical and health research. In our Master of Science programmes and short courses, we provide graduate and postgraduate research training in quantitative medicine and the health sciences. We have five core disciplines – Epidemiology, Clinical Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology, Public Health, and Medical Informatics – and four key partners: Erasmus University Rotterdam, the University of Amsterdam, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, and the Netherlands Cancer Institute.
Fernanda Mezzomo Collares is a 25 year old student from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
Gilson Gabriel Viana Veloso, a 22 year old fifth-year Medicine student at the Pythagoras College in the city of Montes Claros, southeastern Brazil.
Laura Pletsch Borba is a 22-year-old medical student, from Porto Alegre, Brazil. She attends Pontifical Catholic University from Rio Grande do Sul, situated in her hometown.