General Information
Welcome to Postgraduate Program In Infectious Diseases (PPGDI) at Ufes
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Studies aiming at a better understanding of the epidemiological process: patient profile, clinical manifestations, diagnosis and evolution of cases of infectious diseases.
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Development of new diagnostic methods, new therapeutic regimens, new drug tests and clinical evaluation. Use of Experimental Models of Infectious Diseases for the study of therapeutic methods.
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Drug sensitivity test validation. Inflammatory cytokine role in the immune response and its involvement in the pathogenesis associated with intracellular agents. Epidemiological molecular evaluation of the main causes of illness due to infectious diseases. Experimental Model in the Study of the Pathogenesis of Injuries.
The Postgraduate Program in Infectious Diseases is based at the Center for Health Sciences of the Federal University of Espírito Santo. The program aims to:
- Provide higher education teacher training;
- Prepare high-level specialized personnel to work with infectious diseases in Biological and Health Sciences and other related fields within the public and private sectors;
- Promote further training for researchers related to infectious diseases.
The program is based in Vitória-ES, offering the course of MSc in Infectious Diseases since 1996 e the course of PhD in Infectious Diseases since 2009 and has an academic qualification profile certified by CAPES, receiving 5 on its last evaluation.
The program already has 178 masters and 31 doctors and counts with 64 students regularly enrolled, being 37 in the masters and 27 in the doctorate.
