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Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães CPqAM
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz – FIOCRUZ
Fiocruz-Pernambuco
Ernesto Marques
FIOCRUZ-PE - Department of Virology – Chief of Research
Oswaldo Cruz Fundation - FIOCRUZ
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FIOCRUZ - central agency of the Ministry of Health of
Brazil performing biomedical and public health and
infectious diseases research.
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It was founded in 1900, making it the oldest and most
historically scientific institution in the country. It is the
largest public health institution in Latin America.
Today if has more then 30 units in several states of
Brazil and one in Mozambique
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FIOCRUZ - wide range of activities
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clinical and basic research
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hospital and outpatient assistance,
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national reference centers for diagnosis and
surveillance in tropical and infectious disease,
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production and development of vaccines, drugs,
reagents, and diagnostic kits.
What is the FIOCRUZ-PE?
● Is one of the FIOCRUZ centers devoted to
research and teaching in Recife, PE.
Centre Aggeu Magalhaes (CPqAM) was founded in
1950 on the initiative of researchers in Recife who
dreamed of creating a research institution to study
endemic diseases that affected much of the
northeastern population. In the 1970s the CPqAM
was integrated into the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
(Fiocruz).
People of Fiocruz PE
• - 185 Civil Servants - Permanent Staff
• - 70 ~Contract
• - 20 ~ Administrative trainees
• - 400 > Students
Total of approximatelly 700 people.
Departments of Fiocruz PE
• Public Health
• Immunology
• Entomology
• Microbiology
• Virology and Experimental Therapeitics
• Parasitology.
Technological capabilities:
● DNA sequencing platform: traditional and next
generation sequencing (high throughput).
● Flow Cytometer and cell sorting.
● Real Time quantitative PCR.
● Microscopy facility, Confocal and Electronic
Microscopy.
● Bioinformatics
• Statistics and Geoprocessing
Facilities
● BSL-2 Animal facility
● Insectarium
● Mollusc Farming
● BSL-3 Laboratory
National and Regional Reference and
Acreditations
● National Reference in Filariases- Accreditation by the
Joint Commission International (JCI)
● Reference in Yersinia Pestis - Plague
● Regional Reference in Chagas Disease
● Regional Reference in Leishmaniasis
● Regional Reference in Zika virus
● Regional Reference in Schistosomiasis
● Regional Reference in Vector control
Graduate Programs
102
Master in
Public Health
230
2005
Doctoral
1996
2003
Public Health
Professional
Master degree
93
Research areas I
Epidemiology:
 Populations health: living conditions, social determinants
and health vulnerabilities;
 Methods and techniques in applied epidemiology
surveillance and control of communicable diseases.
 Epidemiology, surveillance and control of chronic
noncommunicable diseases;
 Health, labor and environment in human development
areas; Violence and Health;
 Methods and techniques for diagnosis, monitoring and
intervention applied to the control of endemic diseases.
Research Areas II
 Health policies:
 Policies, management functions, health systems
and their organizations;
 Evaluation of health systems, monitoring services,
programs and care;
 Environmental health and worker’s health in public
policy
 Health Information.
Graduate Program II
Master of
Science
2012
2012
Biological Science Biotecnology
Doctoral
Research Areas I
Basic and applied cellular and molecular biology
1) Cellular and molecular biology of pathogens, vectors and hosts;
2) Biotechnology applied to the diagnosis and control of infectious, and
chronic diseases;
3) Cellular and molecular biology applied to the study of drug action.
Eco-biology pathogens, vectors and hosts
1) Biology and control of insect vectors
2) Parasite Ecology
Immunopathogenesis of infectious and chronic diseases
1) Study of the immune responses against infectious and chrinic
diseases
2) Immunogenetic studies and immunological studies of cellular
therapies for infectious and chronic diseases
Sandwich Doctoral Program
 The Fiocruz-PE Graduate Programs are elegible to
scholarships to fund students to perform part of their research
abroad.
 Each program is entitled to at least two scholarships of 12
months each. Making a total of four simultaneously
scholarships. The scholarships have a minimum of 3 months
and a maximum of 12 months.
FIOCRUZ-PE: LaViTE 2013 - Version 2.0
Research areas
 Dengue, Zika and Chikungunia cohort studies (Community and Hospital
based surveillance studies – IDAMS, Zika Alliance, Zika Tools,
NIH/FIOCRUZ-ZIP, Newton Funds, Case control Studies)
 Dengue – NIH-Butantan Phase III efficacy study of a dengue tetravalent
vaccine
 Vaccine design (Zika, dengue, HIV, chikungunya, and yellow fever)
 Diagnostic design, development and Validation (influenza virus, HIV 1
and 2, HCV, dengue, Zika, chikungunya, HTLV 1 and 2, etc.) _WHO
collaborative Laboratory – Diagnostic Evaluation
 Collaborative studies Cura Zika Fiocruz-PITT
 Animal and environment surveillance (Norovirus, Influenza [avian and
swine], Zika, dengue, CHIKV)