With rigorous science and good-humored braggadocio, Tuliodna champions coronavirus research from the Global South. LongReads pulitzercenter
With Brazilian scientists, the center used viral sequences to track chikungunya and Zika outbreaks; it also documented growing HIV drug resistance. In its first 2 years, its scientists landed papers in As well as dissecting outbreaks, de Oliveira was at pains to make it easier and cheaper for others to do so.
The team streamlined lab processes and soon published protocols for speedily sequencing the new virus. They also found that the viral genomes had a common, European ancestor and that the hospital’s first two cases were in people who had recently traveled to Europe. Tulio de Oliveira works with Lucious Chabuka, a master’s student from the Public Health Institute of Malawi.By May 2020, de Oliveira had won government funding, having corralled nearly a dozen partners, including NICD, national public health labs, and university groups into a sprawling surveillance consortium. While other countries lagged—the U.S. government didn’t significantly fund SARS-CoV-2 sequencing until early 2021—de Oliveira had already put his team in place.
De Oliveira himself stresses the teamwork behind his success. “Scientists like fighting,” he says, laughing. “The whole secret is that we manage … to put all the scientists together in the country. I have enormous patience to make people work together.”
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