Who we are
OCRC coordinates scientific efforts to find solutions for obesity, a disease highly associated with a number of serious health problems such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, atherosclerosis and certain kinds of cancer. The overall mortality directly and indirectly associated with obesity is rapidly increasing in Brazil and all around the world – so much so that, today, it is considered a global epidemic. It’s about time we gather our brightest minds to try putting an end to this sad tendency!
O OCRC coordena esforços científicos em busca de soluções para a obesidade, uma doença altamente associada com uma série de problemas de saúde, como o diabetes tipo 2, hipertensão, aterosclerose e alguns tipos de câncer.
[Keep reading]The OCRC develops new technologies that contribute to increasing the healthcare procedures, as well as it develops tools that foment the prevention of obesity.
[Keep reading]Regarding Education and Knowledge Dissemination actions, the OCRC develops inside and outside Unicamp borders workshops for people of all ages, speeches, academic events as well as of diffusion which intend to bring closer to science the non-specialist people of different communities and city of origin. To do it so, a variety of events that consist […]
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Our team
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Technology Transfer Coordinator
Coordinator of education and knowledge dissemination
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