Area of Concentration: Human and Medical Genetics

Area of Concentration: Vegetal Genetics

Research Line – Bioinformatics

Acquisition of a High-Performance Platform for Computational Analysis Applied to Medicine

Coordination: Sandro José de Souza

Starting date: 01/2010

Funding: State of São Paulo Research Support Foundation (FAPESPA) – (Financial Support)

Evaluation of the Bioremediation Potential of the Amazon by the Petroleum Industry

Coordination: Artur Luiz da Costa da Silva

Starting date: 01/2013

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)- (Call 30/2013 MCTI/CNPq/CT-Biotec)

PROCAD – Academic Cooperation Between the Higher Education Institutions, UFPA and USP, for the Development and Establishment of a Bioinformatic Network for Genomic and Proteomic Analysis of the Gastric Cancer (CG – Portuguese Acronym)

Coordination: Andrea Kely Campos Ribeiro dos Santos

Starting date: 01/2009

Funding: Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel(CAPES) – Academic Cooperation Program (PROCAD – Portuguese Acronym)

Sequencing of the Genome of the Cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa SPC777

Coordination: Marli de Fátima Fiore

Starting date: 01/2011

Funding: State of São Paulo Research Support Foundation (FAPESPA) – (Financial Support)

Research Line – Epidemiology and Identification of Mutation in Genetic Diseases

Analysis of the Cytotoxic and Genotoxic Effects of Heavy Metals in Vitro

Coordinator: Edivaldo Herculano Correa de Oliveira

Starting date: 09/2011

Funding:

Multicentric Study for Molecular Characterization of the Hemophilia A and B, Determination of the State of Hemophilia Host in Brazil

Coordinator: Santana Lobato Bahia

Starting date: 01/2006

Funding:

Monitoring of the Expression of the BCR-ABL Chimeric Gene in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia During the the Treatment with Imatinib Mesylate Through Quantitative PCR in Real Time

Coordinator: José Alexandre Rodrigues de Lemos

Starting date: 01/2004

Funding: State of Pará Government – State of Pará Center of Hematology and Hematherapy (HEMOPA – Portuguese Acronym)

Research Line – Human Populations Genetics

Association of Polymorphisms of KIR Genes and their Ligands with Hansen’s Disease and its Polar Forms

Coordinator: Eduardo José Melo dos Santos

Starting date: 01/2006

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Financial Support)

Association of Polymorphisms of KIR Genes and their HLA_C Ligands with Relevant Infection in Amazon Public Health System: Tuberculosis and Viral Hepatitis B and C

Coordinator: Eduardo José Melo dos Santos

Starting date: 01/2007

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Financial Support)

Evaluation of the Association of 32 Polymorphisms with susceptibility to Tuberculosis in Patients with Pulmonary and Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in the City of Belém, State of Pará

Coordinator: Sidney Emanuel Batista dos Santos

Starting date: 30/11/2010

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Financial Support)

Diversity and Molecular Characterization of Nematodes from the Anisakidae Family with the Zoonotic Potential in the State of Pará

Coordinator: Evonnildo Costa Gonçalves

Starting date: 01/2009

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Financial Support) / State of Pará Research Support Foundation (FAPESPA) – (Support Program) / Ministry of Health - (Financial Support)

Neglected Infectious Diseases and Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases in Melgaço (State of Pará): epidemiologic, clinical and laboratorial aspaects

Coordinator: João Farias Guerreiro

Starting date: 07/2014

Funding: State of Pará Research Support Foundation (FAPESPA – Portuguese acronym) - (Official Notice 006/2014 – Research Funding Program – FAPESPA’s Thematic Projects)

Estimates of Interethnic Mixtures and Genomic Control of Human Ancestrality Deploying a 30-Indel-marker panel of the X Chromosome

Coordinator: Sidney Emanuel Batista dos Santos

Starting date: 01/2010

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Research Funding)

Study of the Heterogenous Resistance to Vancomycin in Staphylococcus aureus Through Comparative Genetics of Subpopulations of an Isolated

Coordinator: Jhon Anthony Mcculloch

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Financial Support) / Ministry of Health - (Support)

Phamacogenetics Applied to the Treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Patients from a Northern Brazilian Region

Coordinator: Paulo Pimentel Assumpção

Starting date: 01/2013

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Financial Support)

Phamacogenomics in Populations with High Levels of Genic Mixture: development and validation of Ancestrality Markers and their Application with Genomic Controls in the Therapeutic Individualization with Medicine

Coordinator: Andrea Kely Campos Ribeiro dos Santos

Starting date: 01/2004

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Financial Support)

Generation of Knowledge About Marajó Archipelago

Coordinator: Ricardo Ishak

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding: State of Pará Research Support Foundation (FAPESPA) – (Support Program)

Deployment of Karyotypic Exams by Hybridisation in Situ in Cases Directed by SUS to the Human and Medical Cytogenetics Laboratory of the Federal University of Pará

Coordinator: Edivaldo Herculano Correa de Oliveira

Starting date: 10/2010

Funding: State of Pará Research Support Foundation (FAPESPA – Portuguese acronym) - (Official Notice 013/2009 – Research for SUS: Shared Managing in Health – PPSUS – MS/CNPq/FAPESPA/SESPA)

Investigation of Genetic Polymorphisms in Genes Candidate to Susceptibility to M. tuberculosis in Patients with Tuberculosis in the State of Pará

Coordinator: Sidney Emanuel Batista dos Santos

Starting date: 01/2007

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Financial Support)

Assembly and Annotation of the Genome in a Same-Individual Linage

Coordinator: Sandro José de Souza

Starting date: 01/2008

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Research Funding)

Profile of miRNAs Platelets Stocked in a Blood Bank and its Association with Storing Cellular Lesions

Coordinator: Rommel Mario Rodriguez Burbano

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Universal Call MCTI/CNPq Nº 14/2011)

Epidemiologic Profile of Indigenous Populations from Pará: nutritional situation and prevalance of communicable and non-communicable diseases

Coordination: João Farias Guerreiro

Starting date: 01/2014

Funding:

Research Network in Human Populational Genomics

Coordinator: Andrea Kely Campos Ribeiro dos Santos

Starting date: 04/2014

Funding:

New Generation Sequencing and Investigation of Genetic Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Coordinator: João Farias Guerreiro

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Financial Support)

Exome Sequencing and Genetic Variants Associated with Obesity and Comorbidities in an Indigenous Population in the Brazilian Amazon

Coordinator: João Farias Guerreiro

Starting date: 09/2014

Funding:

Genetic Susceptibility and Phamacogenomics of Neglected Diseases. Fase II

Coordinator: Andrea Kely Campos Ribeiro dos Santos

Starting date: 09/2008

Funding:

Research Line – Forensic Genetics

Deployment of a Reference Laboratory of Forensic Genetics for all Northern Region at the Federal University of Pará. LGFORENSE

Coordinator: Sidney Emanuel Batista dos Santos

Starting date: 01/2004

Funding: Funding Authority for Studies and Projects (FINEP) - (Financial Support)

Research Line - Oncologic Genetics

Strategic Approaches in Public Health: development of biomarkers of Hansen’s Disease based on the Profile of Expression of microRNA

Coordinator: Andrea Kely Campos Ribeiro dos Santos

Starting date: 03/2014

Funding: State of Pará Research Support Foundation - (Support Program)

Antagomirs and Mimics as Biotechnological Tools in the Gastric Cancer Therapeutics

Coordinator: Andrea Kely Campos Ribeiro dos Santos

Starting date: 05/2014

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)- (CNPq/CAPES)

Evaluation of the Silencing Effect of the MYC Gene in the Gastric Carcinogenesis: development of therapy and new diagnostic and prognostic methodology

Coordinator: Rommel Mario Rodriguez Burbano

Starting date: 02/2014

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Chamada Nº 28/2013 MCTI/CNPq/CT - Biotec – Biological Systems Engineering)

Evaluation of the Action Mechanism of Isolated Limonoids of the Swietenia macrophylla and its Involvement with the Signaling via TP53 In Neoplastic Cells

Coordinator: Raquel Carvalho Montenegro

Starting date: 01/2013

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Universal Official Notice MCTI/CNPq no. 14/2012)

Biomarkers in Response to Chemotherapy in Locally Advanced Breast Cancer

Coordinator: Rommel Mario Rodriguez Burbano

Starting date: 02/2014

Funding: State of Pará Research Support Foundation (FAPESPA) - (FAPESPA OFFICIAL NOTICE 011/2013 PPSUS – Research Program for SUS: Shared Managing in Health FAPESPA/MS-DECIT/CNPq/SESPA – PPSUS – 2013/PA)

Biomarkers of Susceptibility to Chronic Periodontitis

Coordinator: Andrea Kely Campos Ribeiro dos Santos

Starting date: 01/2009

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Financial Support)

C-MYC, HER-2 and Hormonal Receptors with Predictors of Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer

Coordinator: Andre Salim Khayat

Starting date: 04/2014

Funding: State of Pará Research Support Foundation (FAPESPA) - (Support Program)

Characterization by Comparative Genomic Hybridisation in the Process Array of Carcinogenesis in Gastric Adenocarcinomas of Diffuse and Intestinal Types

Coordinator: André Salim Khayat

Starting date: 01/2010

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Financial Support)

Deployment of Flow Cytometry in Cell Cultures and Biological Samples

Coordinator: Andre Salim Khayat

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding: Federal University of Pará (UFPA) – Integration Program of Teaching -Research-Extension

Study of the Role of MYC in Gastric Carcinogenesis: identification of proteins and genes regulated by MYC in clinical samples and in vitro models

Coordinator: Rommel Mario Rodriguez Burbano

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Universal Official Notice MCTI/CNPq no. 14/2012)

Study of the Role of TWIST1, TWIST2 and AKT Genes in the Tumorigenesis of the Buccal Epidermoid Carcinoma

Coordinator: Andre Salim Khayat

Starting date: 11/2013

Funding:

Studies of the HPV Genotype, its Intratypical Variants and Other Rick Factors Associated to Uterine Cancer in Women tended at an Oncologic Reference Health Center in Belém

Coordinator: Raquel Carvalho Montenegro

Starting date: 01/2013

Funding: State of Pará Research Support Foundation (FAPESPA) - (Fapespa Official Notice 003/2012 PPSUS – Research Program for SUS), Federal University of Pará - (Integration Program of Teaching-Research-Extension)

Phamarcogenetics of Antineoplastic Drugs

Coordinator: Raquel Carvalho Montenegro

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding:

Gastric Cancer Genomics

Coordinator: Paulo Pimentel de Assumpção

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Financial Support)

Identification and Characterization of Gastric Cancer Stem Cells in vitro to Develop Specific Drug Therapy

Coordinator: Paulo Pimentel de Assumpção

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding: Novartis Biosciences S/A – (Financial Support)

INCT for Cancer Control

Coordinator: Hector Nicolas Seuanez Abreu

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Financial Support)

INTERCHANGE

Coordinator: Paulo Pimentel de Assumpção

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding:

Investigation of Molecular Markers of Colorectal Cancer in Fecal DNA

Coordinator: Plinio Cerqueira dos Santos Cardoso

Starting date: 01/2013

Funding:

Methylation and Damages to the Mitochondrial DNA with Risk Factors of Cancer in Elderly People

Coordination: Maria Lucia Harada

Starting date: 01/2008

Funding: State of Pará Research Support Foundation (FAPESPA) - (Programa de Apoio)

Alternate Splicing in Cancer

Coordinator: Sandro José de Souza

Starting date: 01/2009

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Auxílio à Pesquisa)

Oncogenomics: microRNAs Signature as a Risk Factor to the Development of Gastric Cancer

Coordinator: Andrea Kely Campos Ribeiro dos Santos

Starting date: 01/2011

Funding:

Research Network of Human Populational Genomics (RPGPH – Portuguese Acronym)

Coordinator: Paulo Pimentel de Assumpção

Starting date: 11/2014

Funding: Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) – Computational Biology

Screening of Biomarkers in Gastric Cancer: microRNA signatures in tumoral linage

Coordinator: Sylvain Henri Darnet

Starting date: 01/2011

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) - (Research Funding)

Pre-Clinical Test of Combined Therapy for Peritoneal Carcinomatosis Deriving from Gastric Adenocarcinoma

Coordinator: Paulo Pimentel de Assumpção

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding: Novartis Biosciences S/A - (Financial Support)

Validation of Differential Expression of microRNAs as a Risk Factor to the Development of Gastric Cancer

Coordinator: Andrea Kely Campos Ribeiro dos Santos

Starting date: 01/2014

Funding: State of Pará Research Support Foundation (FAPESPA) - (FAPESPA OFFICIAL NOTICE 011/2013 PPSUS – Research for SUS: Shared Managing in Health FAPESPA/MS-DECIT/CNPq/SESPA – PPSUS – 2013/PA)

Research line – Investigation of Hereditary Metabolic Diseases

Application of the Molecular Diagnostic of the Cystic Fibrosis Gene in the Single Health System

Coordinator: Andrea Kely Campos Ribeiro dos Santos

Starting date: 01/2014

Funding: State of Pará Research Support Foundation (FAPESPA) - (OFFICIAL NOTICE FAPESPA 011/2013 PPSUS – Research for SUS: Shared Managing in Health FAPESPA/MS-DECIT/CNPq/SESPA – PPSUS – 2013/PA)

Research line – Paleogenetics

Analysis of the Pre-Columbian Human DNA: evolutionary significance and applications in forensic cases

Coordinator: Andrea Kely Campos Ribeiro dos Santos

Starting date: 01/1999

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)- (Auxílio à Pesquisa) / Federal University of Pará (UFPA) – Integration Program of Teaching-Research-Extension

Genomic Ancestrality and Brazilian Interethnic Mixture Estimated Through an Indel-Type Panel of 62 Informative Markers of Ancestrality

Coordinator: Sidney Emanuel Batista dos Santos

Starting date: 01/2012

Funding: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)- (Research Funding) / Federal University of Pará (UFPA) – Integration Program of Teaching-Research-Extension

Cripto-Judaism: the diaspora of a people

Coordinator: Andrea Kely Campos Ribeiro dos Santos

Starting date: 02/2012

Funding:

Paleogenetics and Paleoepidemiology in Pre-Historical Populations in the Amazon, Paleogene

Coordination: Andrea Kely Campos Ribeiro dos Santos

Starting date: 01/2004

Funding: Funding Authority of Studies and Projects (FINEP) – CTINFRA Official Notice