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Software developed by UFOP and Harvard ensures monitoring of vaccination in USA

U.S. Secretary of Defense/Wikipedia Commons The FDA's Sentinel Initiative is a set of efforts that aimed at identifying and evaluating the safety of medicines, which has already established a new protocol to monitorate adverse events during vaccination against COVID-19 in the USA. To do so, it will use statistical software...

Chinese Bridge Online annual edition finished with intense participation of UFOP members

Hebei Normal University and the Confucius Institute organized Chinese Bridge Online in its first virtual edition. In previous years, the event was held through face-to-face competitions in China, when participants from several countries gathered for challenges against each other. However, the 2021 edition was changed to an...

UFOP researchers propose the use of bioinformatics to identify and counteract antigens from the new coronavirus

The technique is applied to identify in the genome of pathogens (such as Sars-Cov-2) possible antigenic targets for potential vaccines against viral, bacterial and parasitic diseases. This is how the professor of the School of Pharmacy and researcher of the Center of Research in Biological Sciences (Nupeb) of the Federal...

Professor from the Department of Economics participates in international event

The Economic History Workshop is an international event organized by a group of professors from institutions of different countries. Created in 2013, the event gathers and debates works of economical and historical analysis that intensively use primary sources, both quantitative and qualitative, regardless of the period...

UFOP Researchers participate in Scientific Panel for the Amazon

The Scientific Panel for the Amazon (SPA), coordinated by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), aims to discuss sustainable solutions for the Amazon through a scientific evaluation of the state of the various ecosystems in the region, the causes and tendencies of climate change and the land use. The last...

UFOP celebrates its 51st anniversary!

Today, August 21st, Federal University of Ouro Preto celebrates its 51st anniversary. Founded from the junction of the century-old and traditional School of Pharmacy and School of Mines, the institution currently offers programs in the most diverse areas of knowledge, with campuses in Ouro Preto, Mariana and João Monlevade...

UFOP researchers' work is published in an international journal

The article published by the journal Free Radical Biology & Medicine was developed mainly by graduate students and professors from UFOP. In this work, the researchers evaluate the properties of the extract of the flowers of Melaleuca Leucadendron, a tree commonly found at Morro do Cruzeiro campus (Ouro Preto). Among...

Researchers from the School of Pharmacy publish an article in an international scientific journal

The article was published in the British Journal of Pharmacology, scientific journal of the British Pharmacological Society, responsible for the most relevant publications of the International Union of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR). The publication is the result of Ana Carolina Moreira Souza's thesis. She...

Researchers identify Amazon region vulnerability and defend airport health control

The interdisciplinary group of 10 scientists from Brazil and Mexico, among them four from the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP) - Serbian Pontes Ribeiro, Alcides Castro e Silva, Alexandre Barbosa Reis, and Wendel Coura-Vital - has just concluded a mathematical model that describes the dynamics of dissemination of...

Capes approves Master’s Degree in Tourism and Heritage at UFOP

The interdisciplinary academic master's degree project in Tourism and Heritage is linked to the Tourism program of the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP). This is the first graduate program in this field of study in the state of Minas Gerais. In the country, there are only six academic master's degrees and four...