Exchanges

National Exchanges:

The IDOR Doctoral Program in Medical Sciences benefits directly from the institutional agreements and exchanges and from the partnerships and cooperation that IDOR’s researchers uphold with national and international groups:

  • Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ): General agreement on technical, scientific and cultural cooperation in addition to specific agreements with the National Center of Structural Biology and Bioimaging (CENABIO), the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICB)’s Morphological Sciences Graduate Program (PCM), the Pediatric Institute (IPPMG), and the Graduate Program in Clinical Medicine.
  • Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio de Janeiro(IFRJ) to promote research partnerships.
  • São Paulo State University (UNESP) to provide internships at IDOR for students of the Institute of Biosciences of Botucatu Campus.
  • Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) and National Cancer Institute (INCA): for researchers working at these institutions and in IDOR to develop research and mentor students with IDOR support.
  • Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA): to conduct research projects about "Coffee and Brain".
  • Research Support Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ): legal agreement with the purpose of publishing a call that funded clinical and translational research in the amount of 10 million BRL, with 5 million from IDOR and 5 million from FAPERJ, in 2014.
  • Roberto Lent (PCM/UFRJ) - Brain Neuroplasticity
  • Joao Ricardo Sato and Rodrigo Basilio, The Federal University of ABC (UFABC/ São Paulo) - Project: Development of a software toolbox for processing real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI - FRIEND) and Quantification of morphological and functional brain changes in psychiatric disorders - DTI and Functional MRI
  • Sergio Ferreira (UFRJ), Fernanda DeFelice (UFRJ) Project: Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease
  • Vivaldo Moura Neto and Flávia Lima (UFRJ) - Neurobiology of brain tumors
  • Fernando Bozza (FIOCRUZ /IDOR) - Neuroimaging and Neurocognition in HIV patients
  • Gabriel de Freitas (IDOR) and Adriana Conforto, University of São Paulo (USP) - Neuroplasticity after stroke
  • Karina do Monte Silva (Federal University of Pernambuco) - Motor cortex neuromodulation Post-stroke - clinical trials call
  • Stem cell Research: National Institutions: UFRJ, USP, Heart Institute (InCor), Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brain Institute, UERJ. National researchers: Fabricio Alano Pamplona (IDOR), Flavia Alcantara Gomes (ICB-UFRJ), Simone Cardoso Coutinho Physics Institute (IF-UFRJ), Simone Nunes de Carvalho (UERJ), Antônio Galina Filho Medical Biochemistry Institute (IBqM UFRJ), José Garcia Abreu Junior (ICB-UFRJ), Roberto Lent (ICB-UFRJ), Adalberto Vieyra Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho (IBCCF-UFRJ), Maria Eugenia Duarte National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics (INTO), José Eduardo Krieger (USP), Jorge Moll (IDOR), Marcos Romualdo (UFRN), Nelson Goldenstein (UFRJ), Paulo Belmonte Abreu Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Sidarta Ribeiro (UFRN), Fernanda Tovar Moll (UFRJ/IDOR), Helena Brentani (USP), Leda Castilho Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering (COPPE- UFRJ), Maria Cavalcanti (UFRJ), Mariana Silveira (IBCCF-UFRJ)
  • Neuropsychiatry: National Institutions: University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Researcher: Eurípedes Constantino Miguel. Actions: Bilateral visits & collaborative studies. São Paulo State University. Researcher: Albina Rodrigues Torres. Actions: Collaborative studies. Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre. Researcher: Ygor Arzeño Ferrão. Actions: Collaborative studies.
  • Intensive Care: Sírio Libanês Hospital – Dr. Luciano Lisboa. Prof. Felipe Dal Pizzol. UFRGS and Holy House of Mercy of Porto Alegre (Santa Casa de Porto Alegre). – Dr. Thiago Lisboa. Clinical ICU – Clinics Hospital (HC/USP) – Dr. Luciano Azevedo and Dr. Otavio Ranzani. Heart Hospital (HCor) – Dr. Alexandre Biasi. Barretos Cancer Hospital – Dr. Ulysses Silva. Oswaldo Cruz German Hospital – Dr. Alexandre Colombari. Albert Einstein Hosp. – Dr. Eliézer Silva.
  • Internal Medicine: Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), UERJ, USP, Federal University of São Carlos, FIOCRUZ, COPPE, National Institute of Science and Technology for Structural Biology and Bioimaging (INBEB), UFRJ.
  • Oncology: INCA
  • Pediatrics: UFRJ and FIOCRUZ

International Exchanges:

The IDOR researchers, on their own initiative or through institutional support, uphold intense collaboration activity with colleagues abroad mainly linked to the development of research projects, student mobility and visiting researcher programs. The most visible consequence of these partnerships is the authorship in numerous scientific articles.

  • Stanford University, CA, USA: formal agreement with Stanford Global Studies Division in which IDOR receives healthcare undergraduates with scholarship program resources for Stanford University students to participate in internships abroad (summer school).
  • Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia (FLENI), Argentina: general cooperation agreement with emphasis on partnerships in stem cell research in neurological diseases.
  • Roland Zahn, University of Manchester (project: Blame rebalance using functional MRI Neurofeedback)
  • Emi Furukawa, Gail Tripp (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation: OIST) Project: ADHD Neurobiology and Functional Neuroimaging of Reward in ADHD
  • Mary Kay Floeter (NIH/USA) - Neuroimaging of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and primary lateral sclerosis, and frontotemporal dementia
  • Angela Sirigu (CNRS/Lyon) and Cláudia Vargas (UFRJ) - Neuroimaging in amputee and limb agenesis patients - development of the body map
  • Steve Jacobson and Afonso Silva (NIH/USA) - Neuroplasticity and neuroimaging in clinical and preclinical models
  • Roland Zahn, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Neurofeedback in patients in remission from major depressive disorder: Clinical Proof of Concept
  • Augusto Buckweitz, Pontifical Catholic University (PUC)-RS; Aniela Improta França and Marije Soto, Faculty of Letters, UFRJ. Psychological and neural architecture of social values and the syntactic structure of sentences.
  • Stem cell Research: International Institutions: FLENI, Scripps, Harvard, International Researchers: Gustavo Sevlever (FLENI), Jerold Chun (Scripps), Derik Rossi (Harvard).
  • Neuropsychiatry: MONASH University, Melbourne, Australia. Researcher: Murat Yücel. Actions: Regular bilateral visits & collaborative studies. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. Researcher: Ulrich Stangier. Actions: Regular bilateral visits & collaborative studies. University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, United States. Researcher: Eric Storch. Actions: Collaborative study. University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Researcher: Vladan Starcevic. Actions: Collaborative study. University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. Researcher: Holger Steinberg. Actions: Collaborative study. Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Researcher: David Mataix - Cols. Actions: Collaborative study. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Researcher: Maria Del Pino Alonso. Actions: Collaborative study. Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal. Researcher: Nuno Rocha. Actions: Submission to a Call, Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal).
  • Intensive care medicine: Hôpital Saint Louis, Univ. Paris VII - Prof. Élie Azoulay. Univ. Ghent - Prof. Dominique Benoit. NOVA University of Lisbon - Prof. Pedro Póvoa. University of Pittsburgh - Profs. Derek Angus and Jeremy Kahn. CHU Grenoble - Prof. Jean-François Timsit and Dr. Anne-Claire Toffart
  • Internal Medicine: Mérieux Institute, Lion, (Liver Diseases) Cleveland Clinic, USA, Claudio Fiocchi (intestinal inflammation). University of Pittsburgh, USA, Carolyn J Anderson and JoAnne Flynn (Pulmonary Inflammation).
  • Oncology: Ohio State University - Prof. David Carbone. Genomic profile of adenocarcinoma of the lung in Brazil. 2012 to 2016 Funding: Boehringer R$ 400,000.00; ASCO Life Grants US$ 100,000; AACR Landon Foundation Translational Award (US $ 200,000). AACR (American Association for Cancer Research). Development of Translational Research Fellowship Program. 2015- 2018. Through the International Affairs Committee.

 

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