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\"Carreiras_DrUniversity of Surrey<\/span>\u201cS\u00e3o Paulo is in a position of leadership in Brazilian science. I believe that in less than five years, S\u00e3o Paulo can become a world leader in the field of academic research.\u201d Swedish biologist Malcom Schantz, 48, left Brazil with this impression in April 2015, after having spent a year on sabbatical as visiting investigator at the Heart Institute (InCor) at Hospital das Cl\u00ednicas of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo School of Medicine (FM-USP). A professor of molecular biology, genetics and neuroscience at the University of Surrey in England, Schantz has dedicated his work to the study of sleep and circadian rhythms (the 24-hour biological cycle), its molecular determinants and how they influence human health. He graduated from the University of Lund in Sweden with a degree in biology and chemistry. He did his PhD work there over a period of three and a half years that included a stint at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). When he returned to Europe, he did post-doctoral work at Imperial College in London. He completed his studies in 1997 and the University of Surrey hired him that same year.<\/p>\n

He has a long-standing relationship with Brazil. He visited the country for the first time in 1995 to attend the annual conference of the Brazilian Sleep Society, held in the city of Curitiba. Shortly thereafter, he began an academic collaboration arrangement with Professor Mario Pedrazolli, who today is at the USP School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, which also focuses on the field of sleep studies. At that time, Schantz served as vice president in the international area of the university\u2019s School of Health and Medical Sciences. \u201cDuring the four years I was vice president, I visited USP many times.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the year he spent in Brazil, Schantz took part in a study performed as a group with researchers from USP and the University of Surrey with residents of Baependi, a mining town with a population of 18,000.<\/p>\n

This municipality is unique in that the people cultivate sleep habits that are similar to those of the pre-industrial era. They go to bed early and wake up as soon as the sun rises. Because of this habit, the residents of Baependi have become the focus of research that seeks to understand the modern sleep routine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis study may be one of a kind in the world. With long-term funding from FAPESP, the researchers in our group are able to monitor the daily routines of the residents of Baependi,\u201d Schantz says. Once he returns to England, he intends to come back to S\u00e3o Paulo frequently. \u201cI received a grant from Science Without Borders under the Special Visiting Researcher grant mechanism, which includes a one-month stay in Brazil for three years in a row,\u201d he explains. \u201cThis way, I will have an opportunity to meet with my colleagues from Brazil who have dedicated themselves to scientific work with an extraordinary degree of satisfaction and enthusiasm.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Schantz worked at InCor-USP in the field of sleep and circadian rhythms","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1204],"tags":[],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-192917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192917"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=192917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}