Innovation for ESG Goals

Innovation for ESG Goals

We still have to develop the technology to reach bold ESG Most C-levels and board members believe that the technology to reach bold ESG goals already exist and it is just a matter of finding a business model, governance or adoption to reach them. This is not true at least to energy transition and biodiversity [...]

Digital Forest

Genome mining for drug discovery From 2015 to 2020, together with Reservas Votorantim, I had the opportunity to execute a really amazing project: The Digital Forest. The project aimed to speed up drug discovery through plant genome mining and was based on the belief that bioinformatics could unveil new drug architectures stored in plant genomes, [...]

Bio Bureau Biotechnology

Science based innovation I founded Bio Bureau in 2009, without having a clear idea of what I was doing, because it was clear to me that it was going to be very hard, if not impossible, to do state of the art scientific research, in Brazil, only with public funds. The company has grown in [...]

The Truth About Dogs and Cats

A scientific and fun book about the differences between men and women After writing so many blog posts, I felt I had enough material for a book. I talked to some editors and showed them my 'selection' of texts. One of them suggested that I took everything that was related to sex. I ended up [...]

Mobile Brain

Science based education In 2011 I was talking to Cristine Barreto about ways to bring more technology to the classroom. Faster! We concluded that current institutional and public efforts to do it in Brazil weren’t fast enough so we decided to create a company. There were several technology companies in education already. But we knew [...]