About us
The Postgraduate Program in Pathology, in the form of an Academic Master's Degree, was approved in 1991, with Concept CAPES 4 (Triennial Evaluation 2013). The area of concentration is pathology, counting on two lines of research: Oncology and Infectious Diseases. The program is made up of 16 permanent professors and 6 associates. Of these, 3 (three) are PQ researchers from CNPQ and 3 (three) have postdoctoral degrees.
The Postgraduate Program in Pathology has the following objectives:
1 - Train teachers and researchers in the health area;
2 - Develop skills for formation of research groups;
3 - To strengthen lines of research with a focus on morphological alterations, pathogenic mechanisms, immunological response, diagnosis, therapeutics and transmission of diseases, according to the following research lines: infectious diseases and oncology.
The main target audience of the course are the health professionals of the North and Northeast regions of Brazil. Until March 2016 the course titled 199 masters. Most graduates are linked to public and private universities in the region, developing activities as undergraduate and postgraduate professors, some of which are responsible for research department heads in the State of Ceará or in other states, one in the Organization Pan American Health Organization, another in the Ministry of Health.
Cooperation
INTEGRATION INDICATORS WITH GRADUATION
Of the total of 22 professors of the program, 21 postgraduate professors have undergraduate work. Of these, 19 professors of the course are directly linked to ÙFC, while two others are professors of the medical course of UNIFOR. In addition to the regular undergraduate classes, they participate in orientation of scientific initiation, monitoring and monographs, as well as in extension projects, with the possibility of highlighting outpatient clinics and sessions, with the participation of 5th and 6th grade students and residents, Not only in Pathology but also in Infectology, Rheumatology, Dermatology, Hematology and Gynecology:
- Dermatopathology session, weekly, coordinated by prof. José Telmo Valença Junior with participation of dermatology professors, residents and undergraduate students.
- Weekly Necropsy session, coordinated by profs. José Telmo Valença Junior, with participation of residents and undergraduate students.
- Service of Pathology of the Lower Genital Tract and Colposcopy of Maternity Assis Chateaubriand School, under the coordination of prof. José Eleutério Junior.
- Ambulatory of Sexually Active Diseases, led by Prof Ivo Castelo Branco Coêlho.
- Ambulatory of Rheumatology and medical visits in a Rheumatology ward, under the responsibility of Prof Max Victor Carioca Freitas, with orientation of students of the Medicine course of UFC Medical School, Juazeiro Medical School, Unichristus Medicine course, course Of medicine of the UECE and residents of medical clinic and rheumatology of the General Hospital Cesar Cals of the Health Department of the State of Ceará).
- Extension project: Provision of Services in Pathology, registered in PROEX / UFC with code: QC.2011.OS.0774, currently coordinated by Prof José Telmo Valença Júnior
-Project registered in the Extension Office of UFC- Development of Educational Activity in Endemic Area for Schistosomiasis in the Municipality of Capistrano-Ce, coordinated by Prof. Fernando Schemelzer Moraes Bezerra.
- Extension project registered at UFC-PRISMA Extension Pro-Rectory, Maturity Inclusion Project coordinated by Prof José Ajax Nogueira Queiroz.
- Extension Project Group of Observation of Hematologic Treatment and Alterations (GOTAH) Integrated Action in Health coordinated by Prof. Romélia Pinheiro Gonçalves Lemes.
- Extension project "Ambulatory of Leishmaniasis in Baturité", an endemic area of cutaneous leishmaniasis, located in the massif of Baturité, 110 km from Fortaleza, coordinated by Prof Anastácio de Queiroz Sousa
Another form of integration with graduation has been through the PROPAG scholarship holders, who have participated in practical classes, in scientific initiation, in monitoring and in review sessions of scientific articles.
- Extension project "Colposcopy in the approach of suspected genital lesions of sexually transmitted diseases, especially human papillomavirus, among adolescent and young adult women", QH00.2014.PJ.0090, coordinated by Prof. José Eleutério.
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
In 2015, we had 15 students participating in the scientific initiation, under the guidance of ten professors of the master's degree in Pathology. During the triennium of evaluation, several former research initiation fellows were approved in a selective process for the master's degree in pathology. Thus, students who presented initial linkage as PIBIC had the opportunity to develop master's degree project in the course.
In 2016, we had 30 scholarship students in scientific initiation programs (PIBIC), acting in the research of 9 teachers. These students are potential future masters. Our course encourages and supports these PIBIC programs to strengthen the program.
MONITORING
Eight professors of Post-Graduation in Pathology guided 18 monitors. The Professors Cristiane Cunha Frota (3), José Ajax Nogueira Queiroz (3), Maria Jania Teixeira (3), José Telmo Valença Jr (2), Max Vitor Carioca Freitas (1), Paulo Roberto Carvalho de Almeida . Edson Teixeira (1), Profª Conceição Aparecida Dornelas (1) and Prof. Fernando Schemelzer de Moraes Bezerra (2).
IN 2015 we had 23 monitors under the guidance of our teachers.
All monitors presented work at the XXIV TEACHING / PROGRESS INITIATION MEETING at the University Meetings of the UFC (2015).
The participation of undergraduates with the research works has increased the critical sense and stimulated the interest and the aptitude for research activities, the entrance in the graduate courses and academic careers.
The participation of master's students in the co-orientation of monographs and scientific initiation work and in the activities of undergraduate classes has allowed the acquisition of skills, stimulating them to teaching.
-01 fellowship in the young talent program for science.
In 2016, we had 24 student monitors / tutors guided by 08 teachers. These students are from undergraduate courses in pharmacy, biology, nursing, dentistry, physiotherapy and medicine. These student monitors are stimulated to teach and integrate the research with the classroom.
The professors of our course ministered in 2016 38 different subjects in the graduation of the varied courses of the medical and biological sciences of the UFC.
NATIONAL EXCHANGES
1. Cristiane Cunha Frota:
Collaboration with the Laboratory of Molecular Biology Applied to Mycobacteria, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz-RJ.
2. Maria Jânia Teixeira:
Collaboration with Profa. Tatiana Rodrigues de Moura, Ph.D. Roque P. Almeida and Prof. Profa. Amélia Almeida, Federal University of Sergipe, Dr. Camila Indiani de Oliveira, Laboratory of Immunopathology (LIP), CPqGM / FIOCRUZ-BA and with Dr. Alda Cruz, FIOCRUZ-RJ, DINTER / FIOCRUZ-RJ project;
3. Paulo Roberto Carvalho de Almeida:
Collaboration with the DINTER Interinstitutional Program Antonio Prudente Foundation (AC Camargo Cancer Center) and the Cancer Institute of Ceará - ICC (Cearense School of Oncology - ECO), approved by CAPES for the period 2013-2017, having been the local coordinator of the Dis- Of Tumor Pathology, together with the coordinator of ACCamargo, Prof. Fernando Augusto Soares and participating as co-supervisor of two projects of Doctoral Thesis of said DINTER;
4. José Eleutério Júnior:
Collaboration with Dr. Ana Katherinne Gonçalves (UFRN), Prof. Paulo Giraldo (UNICAMP) and ProfªIara Moreno Linhares (USP-SP);
5. Danielle Malta Lima:
Collaboration with prof. Benedito Antonio Lopes da Fonseca and prof. Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo from the University of São Paulo. Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto (FMRP-USP).
6. Prof. Jehovah Keny Baima Necklaces:
Collaboration with Prof. Dr. Luís Fernando de Macedo Brígido - Adolfo Lutz Institute (IAL-SP), Profa. Dr. Lívia Melo Villar- Laboratory of Viral Hepatitis - Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ-RJ);
7. Fernando Schemelzer Moraes Bezerra (LPPBM):
Collaboration with the laboratory of Microbiology and Molecular Biology of Prof. José Mauro Peralta (UFRJ), in the development of the molecular diagnosis project of schistosomiasis mansoni; Collaboration with the schistosomiasis laboratory with Drs. Naftale Katz and Paulo Marcos Zech Coelho of the René Rachou / FIOCRUZ-MG Institute.
8. Ronald Pinheiro Feitosa:
National cooperation with USP-Ribeirão Preto, with Dr. Eduardo Magalhães Rego
INTERNATIONAL INTERCHANGE
1. Cristiane Cunha Fleet:
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England, Dr Taane Gregory Clark Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, USA, Dr. Carl Kendall;
2. José Eleutério Júnior:
Steve Witkin (Cornell University - NYC -USA);
3. Ivo Castelo Branco Coelho:
Multicenter cohort study sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline - Belgium.
4. Fernando Schemelzer Moraes Bezerra
Prof. Dr. Govert van Dam - University of Leiden - The Netherlands.
5. Fábio Rocha Fernandes Távora:
Dr. Allen Burke, Department of Pathology, University of Maryland-USA;
6. Edson Holanda Teixeira:
Collaboration with Prof. Maria Olivia Pereira Universidade do Minho-Braga-Portugale Prof. Paula Alexandra Quintino Videira New University of Lisbon / CEDOC;
7. Anastácio de Queiroz Sousa:
Dr. Richard D. Pearson - School of Medicine - University of Virginia - USA
8. Ronald Pinheiro Feitosa:
International cooperation with Columbia University, N.Y., USA, with Dr. Aza Raza
INTERNATIONALIZATION
The international collaborations of our professors in Latin America, the United States and Europe, as mentioned in item 7 (national and international exchanges) have effectively provided for the internationalization of our program. We hope to expand these collaborations soon.
We are participating in the COIMBRA / PAEC / OAS system and receiving foreign students. In 2015 we received student Adriana Estela Flores Valiente from Nicaragua, as part of the UFC Internationalization. In 2016 we received the student Arlym Yanery Cárcamo, a national of El Salvador.
The following professors of our program carried out post-doctoral training:
- Edson Holanda Teixeira at the Universidade Nova Lisboa, Faculty of Sciences and Technology in Lisbon-Portugal (beginning 09/2015, in progress);
- Ronald Pinheiro Feitosa at the Irving Cancer Center, Columbia University in New York-USA (beginning 07/2015 to 02/2016).
Infrastructure
LABORATORIES:
Currently the Program has the following spaces:
Postgraduate Secretariat has the following equipment: 4 desktop computers; 1 notebook; 2 multimedia; 2 screens for projection; 1 microphone with amplifier box, 1 Laser printer.
We also highlight the improvement in our staff of employees linked to the UFC. During the year 2015 we received a second official to serve as secretary. In 2015 the secretary, Paula da Paz Palácio retired and we are waiting for the replacement of the vacancy. So, to this date we have a secretary, Valéria Oliveira. In 2016, we continue with a secretary, the servant Valéria Oliveira.
Department of Pathology of the DPML-UFC: under the responsibility of Prof. José Telmo Valença This laboratory is responsible for the processing of all biopsies, surgical specimens and necropsies from patients in the university hospital complex of the Fortaleza campus of the UFC and Hospital São José de Enfermagem Infecciosas. The sector has the following environments: reception of material; Secretary of typing reports; Clipping room (macroscopy); Room to purge the trimmed material; Lab. Histopathology; Lab. Cytology; Special techniques lab; file slides; Block file; Sitting room of blades; Residents' room; Computers room; Teachers' office; 1 necropsy amphitheater and 1 necropsy room; Cold rooms for corpses; Necropsy secretary; Wake for relatives of the deceased patient; File necropsies; File of necropsy slides.
Equipment: 2 histological processors; 2 inclusion stations; 2 cryostats; 3 microtomes (one semi-automatic); 2 refrigerators; 1 microscope for 5 observers; 16 optical microscopes with direct illumination; 1 microscope with camera for image capture.
Laboratory of Pathology Prof. Livino Pinheiro, from the Cancer Institute of Ceará, under the responsibility of Dr. Maria do Patrocinio Grangeiro, has contributed to the accomplishment of immunohistochemistry and source of research material.
Laboratory of Immunology, coordinated by Prof. Edson Holanda, with the following equipments: 1 Flow cytometer capacity for simultaneous analysis of 4 colors and 6 parameters. With 2 lasers: blue (488nm) and red (633nm); 1 unidirectional laminar flow cabin; 1 bidirectional laminar flow cabinet, 2A2 protection level; 1 light microscope; 1 inverted microscope; 1 centrifuge for non-refrigerated microtubes; 1 refrigerated centrifuge for microtubes; 1 analytical balance with capacity for 220g; 1 type I ultrapurification system; 1 centrifuge for tubes; 1 CO2 stove for cell culture; 1 water bath; 1 vertical autoclave; 1 hot plate with integrated magnetic stirrer; 1 pH meter; 1 vortex stirrer; 3 refrigerators;
Laboratory of Cancer Cytogenetics (LCCM), under the responsibility of prof. Ronald Feitosa Pinheiro, is equipped with: laminar flow hood security level 3; CO2 stove with water jacket; Refrigerated centrifuge; Freezer -80; Image capture system; In-situ hybridization system, Real-time PCR platform, Next-Generation (Illumina) sequencing platform.
Laboratory of Hemoglobinopathies and Hematological Genetic Diseases, under the responsibility of Profa. Romélia Pinheiro Gonçalves, is equipped with: 1 Freezer, 1 Transilluminator, 2 Eppendorf Centrifuges, 1 Microcentrifuge, 1 Refrigerated Centrifuge, 2 Automatic Thermocyclers, 1 QubitTM Fluorometer, 2 Water Baths, 1 Microwave, 1 Vortex, 1 Spectrophotometer, 1 1 Microscopes, 2 Microscopes, 2 Refrigerators, 1 Air conditioning, 1 Ph meter, 2 Microscopes, 2 Electrophoresis tanks (horizontal and vertical) 1 Hematology Analyzer, 2 Counters, 1 LWS-01, 1 LPIX-HE.
Molecular Biology Laboratory, under the responsibility of Prof. Cristiane Frota, with the participation of Prof Danielle Malta Lima, has: two thermocyclers for PCR (Applied Biosystems GeneAmp 9700 and Eppendorf), electrophoretic source, horizontal vats for electrophoresis, transilluminator Ultraviolet light coupled to image scanning system, digital water bath, freezers at 80oC, microcentrifuge, heater blanket, digital scale, digital pH meter, Nano-spectrophotometer and refrigerated microcentrifuge.
Laboratory of Parasitary Immunopathology, under the responsibility of Professor Maria Jania Teixeira, has as main equipment: laminar flows (2), CO2 greenhouse for cell culture (1), BOD (3) greenhouse, refrigerated centrifuge (2), cytospin ( 1), sonicator (1), microcentrifuge (2), inverted microscopes (2), optical microscopes (5), immunofluorescence microscope (1), coupled camera microscope (1), ELISA readers (3), pH meter (2), precision scales (3), magnetic stirrers (3), heating plates (2), thermocycler (1), cooling system (1), refrigerated microcentrifuge Of electrophoresis (1), freezers -70 ° C (1). It is able to perform isolation and maintenance of trypanosomatids, xenodiagnosis for Chagas, parasitological stool with specific methods, culture of peripheral blood cells and lineage cells, quantification of molecules by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, immunofluorence and RT-PCR.
Research Laboratory in Parasitology and Molluscan Biology (LPBM) under the responsibility of prof. Fernando SM Bezerra, having as main equipment: greenhouse, electrophoresis system with horizontal tank, high speed centrifuge, spectrophotometer, bench top, inverted microscope, translucent, BOD stove, thermocycler, ELISA reader, plate washer, 80 ° C. Performs maintenance of S. mansoni cycle.
Laboratory of Immunophenotyping, under the coordination of prof. José Ájax N. Queiroz. In this lab prof. Max V. C. Freitas, coordinator of the Immunology sector of the DPML. It has the following equipment: flow cytometer with computer and printer; Stove with CO2 jacket with water jacket; Vertical laminar flow; Magnetic stirrer adjustable with heating; Water bath w / temp. adjustable; Digital centrifuge; Inverted microscope; optical microscope; Immunofluoreceptor microscopy; Automatic pipettor; Precision analytical balance; Vortex; Desktops with color laser printer.
Multiuser Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Pathology, under the coordination of Prof. Margarida Maria de Lima Pompeu, has: 1 histological processor; 1 station of inclusion; 2 semi-automatic microtomes; 1 cryostat; 1 optical microscope; 1 immunofluorescence microscope; 1 freezer-80oC; 1 freezer -20 oC.
Small animals vivarium, under the responsibility of Prof. Maria Jania Teixeira and Profa. Maria da Conceição Dornelas, who maintains lineage of BALB / c mice and golden hamster for experimental trials and isolation and passage of leishmania strains.
Self-learning room: practical classroom that has three microscopes for five observers.
COMPUTER RESOURCES:
The students have 16 computers:
1 in the office of Prof. Max Freitas and 1 in the Laboratory of Immunophenotyping, where all tied students have free access to the computer;
2 in the Multi-user Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Pathology;
4 in the Sector of Parasitological Studies, available to students linked to the prof. Jania Teixeira;
3 in the Mycobacteria laboratory;
1 in the prof. Fernando Schemelzer,
2 in the Cytogenetic Laboratory
And 2 in the Hemoglobinopathies under the responsibility of Prof. Romélia Pinheiro and one in the Lab of Prof. Paulo Roberto.
All computers are connected to the internet, with access to CAPES journals)
8 printers distributed in the laboratories mentioned above.
LIBRARY:
The postgraduate enrolls in the Library of the Health Sciences Center, where he has access to:
- Electronic books: 324 by Editer Springer Link, in the area of Biomedical Sciences and Biology; 84 by Editora Atheneu in the area of Health.
- CAPES newspapers with home access
- Bibliographic switching;
- Reference orientation;
- Computer room with 02 computers;
- Study room.
OTHERS:
EXHIBITION CLASSROOMS
Total 02
01 ample classroom with capacity for 40 students, equipped with datashow, computer, free wi-fi internet and air conditioning.
01 classroom with capacity for 15 students, also equipped with datashow, computer, free wi-fi internet and air conditioning.
MULTI-USER EQUIPMENT:
1- Photomicrography system;
2- Real-time PCR platform;
3. Photo-documentation system;
4- Nucleic acid quantification system - Nanodrop;
5. ELISA system;
6- Cell flow cytometry platform;
7- Immunofluorescence microscopy system;
8- Leika cryostat system;
9- Automatic histological processor;
10- Inclusion and histological section system with Leika microtome;
11-Freezer -80 ° C;
12- Next-generation sequencing platform