For the third consecutive year, PUCRS is highlighted as the best private university in Brazil in Folha University Ranking (RUF) , released this Monday, October 7th. In the private segment, among the evaluated aspects, the Institution ranks 1st in Research, repeating the performance of 2018, and in...
08 de Outubro de 2019Dr Celia Carlini, a researcher at the Brain Institute of RS, went to England for the event Venoms & Toxins 2019, one of the most relevant in the area of Toxinology. She gave a presentation titled Proteus mirabilis urease: unsuspected non-enzymatic biological properties relevant to...
08 de Outubro de 2019Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Magda Lahorgue Nunes Researcher in charge: Janaina S. Martins de Souza SIDS is defined as “the sudden and unexpected death” of a healthy child during sleep, the cause of which remains unexplained even after reviewing the clinical history and a thorough...
08 de Outubro de 2019Start Date: Sep 2016End Date: Sep 2019Funding source: FINEP (Project 01.16.0047.00)Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Jaderson Costa da Costa and Prof. Dr. Magda Lahorgue NunesBraIns researchers: Prof. Dr. Mirna Wetters Portuguez, Prof. Dr. Ricardo Bernardi Soder, Prof. Dr. Dr. Danielle Irigoyen da Costa; Dr....
07 de Outubro de 2019Between November 11th and 14th, the students of the Postgraduate Program in Pediatrics and Child Health at PUCRS take the course “Neurosciences: in theory and in practice”. The proposed activity aims to teach graduate students through lectures that will target undergraduate health students. The...
07 de Outubro de 2019The prize was shared by British scientist Peter Ratcliffe and two Americans, William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza. His work "identified the molecular machinery that regulates the activity of genes in response to changes in oxygen levels, one of the most essential processes of adapting life". That is,...
07 de Outubro de 2019Porto Alegre constitutes the second largest health complex in Brazil, with over 26 hospitals and 7,000 beds. Porto Alegre is now home to an unprecedented project in Brazil: the BioHub, an innovation hub that aims to drive innovative health and life science solutions and business. The initiative has...
07 de Outubro de 2019PUCRS launches innovative health project More than 80 laboratories, 100 research groups, colleges, a hospital, a scientific and technological park. An ecosystem with a total focus on health is forming in Porto Alegre, BioHub, led by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul...
04 de Outubro de 2019Being in the list of the 100 women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world, according to Time Magazine, psychiatrist Nora Volkow delivered a live video conference, from the United States, to PUCRS students and faculty on Oct 2. The expert leads one of the most important...
04 de Outubro de 2019The researcher from the Instituto do Cebra do RS and coordinator of the PUCRS Research Integrity Office, Denise Cantarelli Machado, was invited to give the opening lecture of three events at PUC-Campinas. The XXIV Scientific Initiation Meeting, the IX Initiation Meeting on Technological Development...
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