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1. Welcome to
ICB-USP
www.icb.usp.br

2. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
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.

3. 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.

4. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
Undergraduate Information
2011
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

5. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
Education
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.

6. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
Graduate Informations
2011
Semester Total of classes
First semester 62 class
Total of PhD
2o. semester 63 class students
TOTAL 110 797

7. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
RESEARCH
ICB has a staff of 150
lecturers and 350
administrative and
laboratory technicians,
in association with 112
post-doctoral fellows
and 800 graduate
students.

8. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
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.

9. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
RESEARCH – Number of Articles

10. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
ICB and the community
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.

11. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
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.

12. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
Human Anatomy Museum (MAH)
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.

13. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
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.

14. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
Experimental animal breeding facilities
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.

15. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
Infrastructure for Research
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.

16. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
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.

17. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
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

18. Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas
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