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OCRC realiza evento para graduandos de medicina sobre Diabetes Tipo 5
06/08/2025
Reportagem – Obesidade: desequilíbrio energético, genética e estilo de vida
04/08/2025
Pesquisadores associados ao OCRC publicam artigo na Nature Metabolism sobre molécula que pode ter papel fundamental no tratamento da obesidade
01/08/2025
Reportagem: Entenda o que é o balanço energético e seu impacto no peso corporal
22/07/2025
Alunas desenvolvem materiais para divulgação científica e apresentam na FeSBE
18/07/2025
Congressistas da FeSBE no OCRC
08/07/2025

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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