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From COVID to Space: The Influence of miRNAs associated with mitochondrial on disease progression
09/09/2022
Evolving views of thermogenic adipose tissue: inter-cellular and inter-organ communication
05/09/2022
Primeira Infância – Saberes maternos sobre desenvolvimento infantil e cuidados do bebê
08/09/2022
Tese de doutorado do OCRC recebe Prêmio Capes de Tese 2022
11/08/2022
Vagas abertas para mestrado e doutorado no Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência da Cirurgia
03/08/2022
Palestra com Susan Ozanne – professora de Endocrinologia do Desenvolvimento na Universidade de Cambridge
19/07/2022

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!


Learn more

Stay tuned!OCRC also maintains SobrePeso, an educational portal for combat and prevention of obesity and its related diseases.
Click here to access the page!

Our team

FacilitiesWe use the most advanced techniques and technologies in our researches. Some of them are:
Flow citometryA laser-based, biophysical technology employed in cell counting, cell sorting, biomarker detection and protein engineering..
RT-PCRTechnique used to qualitatively detect gene expression through creation of complementary DNA (cDNA) transcripts from RNA..
Q-PCRBiomolecular technique to quantitatively measure the amplification of DNA using fluorescent probes..
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