On 5 May in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dr Delia Rodriguez-Amaya was one of eight researchers conferred with the title of Emeritus Researcher of CNPq, the Brazilian National Council of Scientific and Technological Advancement of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the principal official research foundation of Brazil, equivalent to the US National Foundation of Science. Granted to a maximum of 10 eminent researchers since 2005, this title recognises the totality of a researcher's scientific contributions.