Institute of Biomedical Sciences

Welcome to ICB-USP

www.icb.usp.br

Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICB) of the

University of São Paulo was founded through the

Brazilian University Reform of 1969, as an

Institution dedicated to Basic Health Sciences.

Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas


Education

Undergraduate

ICB teaches basic knowledge on

health sciences for students of

14 Faculties of USP and 21

professional degrees.

ICB also is directly responsible

for two Bachelor degrees:

Fundamental Health Sciences

and Biomedical Sciences.

A total of 4,500 undergraduate students have classes in the

Institute every year.


Semester Students

First semester (February-June) 2,486

Second semester (August-December) 2,181

TOTAL 4,667

Semester Classes

First semester 53

Second semester 51

TOTAL 104

Undergraduate Information2011

Graduate

ICB has awarded more than 3,500 Master

and Doctor (PhD) degrees in:

Morphofunctional Sciences

Cell and Tissue Biology

Pharmacology

Human Physiology

Immunology

Microbiology

Host-Pathogen Interactions

Biotechnology (Interfaculty post-graduate Program)

ICB Graduate students are recipients of scholarships from the following Brazilian

agencies: FAPESP, CAPES and CNPq.


Education


Semester Total of classes

Total of PhD students

First semester 62 class

2o. semester 63 class

TOTAL 110 797

Graduate Informations2011

ICB has a staff of 150

lecturers and 350

administrative and

laboratory technicians,

in association with

112 post-doctoral

fellows and 800

graduate students.


RESEARCH

Projects developed at the Institute are

primarily funded by the São Paulo State

Research Funding Agency (FAPESP),

Federal Agencies such as CNPq, CAPES

and FINEP, Ministries of Health and of

Science Technology and Innovation and

several international agencies (COFECUB,

OAS, PAHO, WHO, NIAID, Bill and Melinda

Gates Foundation, Guggenheim

Foundation). Partnerships with private

and public sectors have also been

established. ICB receives over 20 million

US$ per year for research.


RESEARCH

RESEARCH – Number of Articles


ICB carries out health care activities

and health education programs along

several communities in Sao Paulo State

and in the Amazon region.

In the last five years, 7,500 medical

visits, 6,000 tests for diagnosis of

malaria, 2,500 parasitological stool

examinations, 2,500 doses of

haemoglobin and 600 complete blood

analysis were performed.


ICB and the community


Human Anatomy Museum (MAH)

The “Professor Alfonso Bovero” Human Anatomy

Museum displays about 1,800 human anatomical

pieces with a collection of skulls of 500 pieces, and

a library with about 2,000 books.

The Museum is open to the

University and the general

public. The collection is also

employed for research on

History of Anatomy carried out

by scientists from Brazil and

abroad.


Human Anatomy Museum (MAH)


Library

The ICB Library hosts a

collection of 93,600 items,

including books and

educational research

documents, doctoral

theses, dissertations,

periodicals and multimedia

material, as intended for

research and teaching.

ICB has facilities for breeding

and maintaining animals used

in research and teaching. The

Central Breeding of rats

produces 18,000 animals per

year to supply the

requirements of the Institute

and the University. ICB has

inbred mice facilities with

International recognition.


Experimental animal breeding facilities

ICB infrastructure is

compatible with the world's

best Universities, with last

generation laboratories,

including a Biosafety

Laboratory Maximum rating

NB-3 (Biosafety Level 3),

considered a national

reference, which allows

advanced studies in various

areas such as virology.


Infrastructure for Research

Laboratories are well equipped.

A Central Facility for the use of

modern techniques such as high-

resolution mass spectrometry,

gene sequencing, image analysis,

and flow cytometry has been

established to support the

biomedical scientific community.


Infrastructure for Research


Academic cooperation agreements

Universidad de La Frontera - Chile

University of Paris - France

Università Degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata“ - Italy

University of Michigan Medical School - USA

Medical University of Vienna - Austria

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba - Argentina

Hannover Medical School - Germany

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência - Portugal

Universidad de Tolima – Colombia

Universidad de Ñarino - Colombia

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases – USA

Wayne State University – USA

Curtin University of Technology, Australia

Universidade de Washington - USA

Marine Biological Laboratory - USA

Thank you!
