HISTORY AND CONTEXTUALIZATION OF THE PROGRAM

 

IDOR POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM IN MEDICAL SCIENCES

The D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR - www.idor.org) is a private not-for-profit organization, associated with Rede D'Or São Luiz health organization, whose aim is to promote scientific and technological progress and outstanding training of healthcare professionals.

Since 2010, IDOR has been operating in its own headquarters, developing clinical and translational research and coordinating the education activities of Rede D'Or São Luiz health organization’s lato sensu postgraduate program, especially the specialization courses, as well as medical residency programs accredited by the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC).

IDOR is committed to investing in scientific development, providing excellent infrastructure and bringing together an experienced group of researchers with high scientific production in clinical and translational research in the fields of neurosciences, intensive medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics and oncology.

The high productivity of the IDOR’s researchers, associated with the individual and institutional capacity of obtaining grants, the advantageous national and international academic partnerships, and experience in supervising master's and doctoral students and postdocs, attest to the scientific maturity of the Institute and support the proposal of the Doctoral Program in Medical Sciences, recommended by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), to be started in March 2017.

Regardless of being a new Program, it has been already born within an Institution that presents indicators of excellence in research. The IDOR postgraduate program is a natural development of research and education activities that the Institute already conducts, within a context that ensures excellence in its critical mass, with modern imaging, biochemistry, molecular biology and cellular reprogramming laboratory facilities, as well as the strong international insertion of its projects.

The program therefore has an intense multidisciplinary focus due to the faculty’s different fields of study and the proposal of receiving students from different professional backgrounds promoting, through the research lines and the curricular proposal, solid transdisciplinary training.

The researchers/supervisors of the IDOR Doctoral Program are able to establish partnerships and lead multidisciplinary and innovative scientific investigations seeking a model of differentiated and critical academic training integrated with healthcare issues. The faculty is composed of 22 experienced researchers (17 permanent and 5 collaborating supervisors) who are references in their areas, with more than 400 articles published in the last three years, 18 research lines, 49 research projects and about 16 courses made available to students pursuing a scientific training at IDOR.

The southeast region is Brazilian’s geographic region with the highest concentration of schools, universities and research institutes, including Rio de Janeiro as one of these scientific hubs. Offering a Doctoral Program in this region is a challenge that can only be overcome with highly qualified and competitive work founded on scientific and technological grounds equivalent to the programs of excellence abroad. This is the IDOR commitment.

 

CURRICULAR PROPOSAL:

CURRICULAR STRUCTURE

The entire curriculum structure is centered on the research lines, with few core courses and an extensive list of elective courses, allowing a more individualized curriculum that meets the supervisor – student partnership goals and reduces the time of student training.

The main challenge of the curricular proposal of the IDOR Doctoral Program in Medical Sciences was to promote the insertion of students from different backgrounds in research and education activities, facilitating the acquisition of new skills and a solid interdisciplinary training in clinical and basic healthcare research.

The IDOR's researchers/supervisors have a multidisciplinary and innovative profile in their research lines combining mathematical, biological and clinical knowledge in many projects, encouraging a broad scientific reasoning.

The student is subjected to courses that are well integrated into their lab research activities or healthcare practices. The purposeful intention is to bring students closer to their research project through theoretical information and practical activities, giving them the opportunity to acquire new knowledge and learn from experienced researchers from related fields.

The presentation of seminars, group discussions, intensive cycle of national and international lectures and close supervision of the supervisor are the main lines of the curricular proposal of the Program that aim to welcome the student into scenarios of great interaction with the scientific environment of the Institute.

It is also expected that the PhD student has an important role in the organization and participation of events and formal and informal activities related to the life of the Institute as seminars, workshops, journal clubs, happy hour, among others.

In summary, the curricular proposal of the IDOR Doctoral Program seeks to provide a flexible disciplinary structure and a broad articulation with other training components, guaranteeing intensive training in scientific foundations and in strategic ethical and bioethical procedures so that the student can lead a healthcare interdisciplinary and innovative work.

 

INNOVATIVE TRAINING EXPERIENCES

A bioinformatics, biostatistics and health economics platform is being structured at the Institute to develop various actions in support of research, data collection and analysis, clinical protocols and education and training activities. The students of the program will directly benefit from this initiative which will also offer a formal course in the program.

The IDOR New Business and Technological Innovation Nucleus (NIT) will offer educational programs that familiarize the student with the projects and experiments that are in progress with partner companies, arousing interest in the applicability of scientific knowledge.

The course Scientific Divulgation aims, by means of workshops, to introduce students into material production, text and video editing, use of and access to the Internet for the purpose of disseminating scientific news of major importance to society.

Encouragement of student mobility through scientific exchanges, provision of courses taught in English and the frequent visits of foreign researchers at the Institute are other strategies used to broaden the student's performance and attract foreign students.

 

OBJECTIVES

GENERAL:

- Develop clinical and translational research and train highly qualified healthcare human resources.

SPECIFIC:

- Emphasis on multidisciplinary research favoring the articulation of cooperation projects between different areas of knowledge.

- Strong incentive in the interface between research and technological innovation.

- Commitment to the internationalization of the faculty and students body’s scientific activities.

- Creation of performance and quality indicators that allow equivalence with institutions and programs of excellence in Brazil and abroad.

 

ALUMNI PROFILE:

- IDOR Doctoral Program in Medical Sciences’ student is exposed to an innovative scientific environment having the opportunity to work on bold projects that are at the frontier of knowledge and also to conduct scientific research committed to the medical practice and with strong hospital insertion.

- The PhD student will acquire investigative maturity through transdisciplinary projects, teamwork and a propositional agenda that stimulates curiosity, autonomy and creativity.

- The Program should help the students become healthcare researchers who exhibit critical and participating profiles being prepared to address complex intellectual challenges and conduct innovative work in basic and applied sciences, in both academic and business areas.

- The IDOR PhD graduate will be capable of leading and supporting new knowledge generation and also seek solutions to serious health problems.

 

EXCHANGES

NATIONAL EXCHANGES:

The IDOR Doctoral Program in Medical Sciences benefits directly from the institutional agreements and exchanges and from the partnerships and cooperation that IDOR’s researchers uphold with national and international groups:

- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ): General agreement on technical, scientific and cultural cooperation in addition to specific agreements with the National Center of Structural Biology and Bioimaging (CENABIO), the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICB)’s Morphological Sciences Graduate Program (PCM), the Pediatric Institute (IPPMG), and the Graduate Program in Clinical Medicine.

- Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio de Janeiro(IFRJ) to promote research partnerships.

- São Paulo State University (UNESP) to provide internships at IDOR for students of the Institute of Biosciences of Botucatu Campus.

- Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) and National Cancer Institute (INCA): for researchers working at these institutions and in IDOR to develop research and mentor students with IDOR support.

- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA): to conduct research projects about "Coffee and Brain".

- Research Support Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ): legal agreement with the purpose of publishing a call that funded clinical and translational research in the amount of 10 million BRL, with 5 million from IDOR and 5 million from FAPERJ, in 2014.

- Roberto Lent (PCM/UFRJ) - Brain Neuroplasticity

- Joao Ricardo Sato and Rodrigo Basilio, The Federal University of ABC (UFABC/ São Paulo) - Project: Development of a software toolbox for processing real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI - FRIEND) and Quantification of morphological and functional brain changes in psychiatric disorders - DTI and Functional MRI

- Sergio Ferreira (UFRJ), Fernanda DeFelice (UFRJ) Project: Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease

- Vivaldo Moura Neto and Flávia Lima (UFRJ) - Neurobiology of brain tumors

- Fernando Bozza (FIOCRUZ /IDOR) - Neuroimaging and Neurocognition in HIV patients

- Gabriel de Freitas (IDOR) and Adriana Conforto, University of São Paulo (USP) - Neuroplasticity after stroke

- Karina do Monte Silva (Federal University of Pernambuco) - Motor cortex neuromodulation Post-stroke - clinical trials call

- Stem cell Research: National Institutions: UFRJ, USP, Heart Institute (InCor), Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brain Institute, UERJ. National researchers: Fabricio Alano Pamplona (IDOR), Flavia Alcantara Gomes (ICB-UFRJ), Simone Cardoso Coutinho Physics Institute (IF-UFRJ), Simone Nunes de Carvalho (UERJ), Antônio Galina Filho Medical Biochemistry Institute (IBqM UFRJ), José Garcia Abreu Junior (ICB-UFRJ), Roberto Lent (ICB-UFRJ), Adalberto Vieyra Institute of Biophysics Carlos Chagas Filho (IBCCF-UFRJ), Maria Eugenia Duarte National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics (INTO), José Eduardo Krieger (USP), Jorge Moll (IDOR), Marcos Romualdo (UFRN), Nelson Goldenstein (UFRJ), Paulo Belmonte Abreu Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Sidarta Ribeiro (UFRN), Fernanda Tovar Moll (UFRJ/IDOR), Helena Brentani (USP), Leda Castilho Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering (COPPE- UFRJ), Maria Cavalcanti (UFRJ), Mariana Silveira (IBCCF-UFRJ)

- Neuropsychiatry: National Institutions: University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Researcher: Eurípedes Constantino Miguel. Actions: Bilateral visits & collaborative studies. São Paulo State University. Researcher: Albina Rodrigues Torres. Actions: Collaborative studies. Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre. Researcher: Ygor Arzeño Ferrão. Actions: Collaborative studies.

- Intensive Care: Sírio Libanês Hospital – Dr. Luciano Lisboa. Prof. Felipe Dal Pizzol. UFRGS and Holy House of Mercy of Porto Alegre (Santa Casa de Porto Alegre). – Dr. Thiago Lisboa. Clinical ICU – Clinics Hospital (HC/USP) – Dr. Luciano Azevedo and Dr. Otavio Ranzani. Heart Hospital (HCor) – Dr. Alexandre Biasi. Barretos Cancer Hospital – Dr. Ulysses Silva. Oswaldo Cruz German Hospital – Dr. Alexandre Colombari. Albert Einstein Hosp. – Dr. Eliézer Silva.

- Internal Medicine: Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), UERJ, USP, Federal University of São Carlos, FIOCRUZ, COPPE, National Institute of Science and Technology for Structural Biology and Bioimaging (INBEB), UFRJ.

- Oncology: INCA

-Pediatrics: UFRJ and FIOCRUZ

 

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES:

The IDOR researchers, on their own initiative or through institutional support, uphold intense collaboration activity with colleagues abroad mainly linked to the development of research projects, student mobility and visiting researcher programs. The most visible consequence of these partnerships is the authorship in numerous scientific articles.

- Stanford University, CA, USA: formal agreement with Stanford Global Studies Division in which IDOR receives healthcare undergraduates with scholarship program resources for Stanford University students to participate in internships abroad (summer school).

- Fundación para la Lucha contra las Enfermedades Neurológicas de la Infancia (FLENI), Argentina: general cooperation agreement with emphasis on partnerships in stem cell research in neurological diseases.

- Roland Zahn, University of Manchester (project: Blame rebalance using functional MRI Neurofeedback)

- Emi Furukawa, Gail Tripp (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation: OIST) Project: ADHD Neurobiology and Functional Neuroimaging of Reward in ADHD

- Mary Kay Floeter (NIH/USA) - Neuroimaging of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and primary lateral sclerosis, and frontotemporal dementia

- Angela Sirigu (CNRS/Lyon) and Cláudia Vargas (UFRJ) - Neuroimaging in amputee and limb agenesis patients - development of the body map

- Steve Jacobson and Afonso Silva (NIH/USA) - Neuroplasticity and neuroimaging in clinical and preclinical models

- Roland Zahn, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Neurofeedback in patients in remission from major depressive disorder: Clinical Proof of Concept

- Augusto Buckweitz, Pontifical Catholic University (PUC)-RS; Aniela Improta França and Marije Soto, Faculty of Letters, UFRJ. Psychological and neural architecture of social values and the syntactic structure of sentences.

- Stem cell Research: International Institutions: FLENI, Scripps, Harvard, International Researchers: Gustavo Sevlever (FLENI), Jerold Chun (Scripps), Derik Rossi (Harvard).

- Neuropsychiatry: MONASH University, Melbourne, Australia. Researcher: Murat Yücel. Actions: Regular bilateral visits & collaborative studies. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. Researcher: Ulrich Stangier. Actions: Regular bilateral visits & collaborative studies. University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, United States. Researcher: Eric Storch. Actions: Collaborative study. University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Researcher: Vladan Starcevic. Actions: Collaborative study. University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. Researcher: Holger Steinberg. Actions: Collaborative study. Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Researcher: David Mataix - Cols. Actions: Collaborative study. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Researcher: Maria Del Pino Alonso. Actions: Collaborative study. Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal. Researcher: Nuno Rocha. Actions: Submission to a Call, Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal).

- Intensive care medicine: Hôpital Saint Louis, Univ. Paris VII - Prof. Élie Azoulay. Univ. Ghent - Prof. Dominique Benoit. NOVA University of Lisbon - Prof. Pedro Póvoa. University of Pittsburgh - Profs. Derek Angus and Jeremy Kahn. CHU Grenoble - Prof. Jean-François Timsit and Dr. Anne-Claire Toffart

- Internal Medicine: Mérieux Institute, Lion, (Liver Diseases) Cleveland Clinic, USA, Claudio Fiocchi (intestinal inflammation). University of Pittsburgh, USA, Carolyn J Anderson and JoAnne Flynn (Pulmonary Inflammation).

- Oncology: Ohio State University - Prof. David Carbone. Genomic profile of adenocarcinoma of the lung in Brazil. 2012 to 2016 Funding: Boehringer R$ 400,000.00; ASCO Life Grants US$ 100,000; AACR Landon Foundation Translational Award (US $ 200,000). AACR (American Association for Cancer Research). Development of Translational Research Fellowship Program. 2015- 2018. Through the International Affairs Committee.

 

SOCIAL INSERTION

The research conducted at IDOR is reflected in the research lines of the Doctoral Program with emphasis on the clinical and translational approach, resulting in the transfer of knowledge and technologies to professionals who will work in the academic, healthcare or business areas.

In addition to the active participation of researchers in the national and international press disclosing the research linked to the program, especially the recent research on ZIKA, other actions should be highlighted:

- IDOR’s researchers, Jorge Salluh, Marcio Soares and Fernando Bozza, who conduct projects related to intensive care, have access to more than 1,200 ICU beds in Rede D'Or São Luiz health organization and lead several research projects in an international network in this field, with recent publications in the Lancet and JAMA. Among the research results, the impact on the reduction of mortality of ICU patients after the application of the daily checklist proposed in the international network project stands out.

- Another highly productive research line of the program - "Connectivity and Neuroplasticity", develops important projects on agenesis of the corpus callosum that has led to the creation of the Association of Parents and Patients with Disorders of the Corpus Callosum (APPACC) led by the Program permanent supervisor, Fernanda Tovar Moll, and has the voluntary participation of several specialists in neurology, audiology and speech-language therapy and psychology to give support to patients and their families.

- Celeste Elia, permanent supervisor and coordinator of the Program, led the creation of the GEDIERJ- Study Group of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases of the State of Rio de Janeiro, in order to have a forum for clinical and scientific discussion of complex cases, create a patient database and promote actions with government agencies to ensure patients' access to immunobiological drugs. This group is an essential basis for the clinical and bench works of the program's research line, "Inflammation and Carcinogenesis", led by the supervisor Heitor Siffert Pereira e Souza.

- The pediatric research group developed “CLARIPED”, a tool for simple, objective and easy to use pediatric emergency risk classification, already being tested in some public and private hospitals of Rio de Janeiro, and could soon be adopted nationwide. The social impact of the implementation of this instrument is significant mainly in the pediatric emergency public services that suffer from overcrowding, as it can decrease the time of medical assistance and increase reliability in diagnosis and treatment.

 

INFRASTRUCTURE

IDOR is located in its own headquarters, in Rio de Janeiro, with a physical area that houses researcher and administration offices, an amphitheater of 90 seats equipped with multimedia resources, a library with a small collection, computers for students to use with access to CAPES site, a Molecular Biology and Cellular Reprogramming Laboratory, a Diagnostic and Imaging Research Center, and the Center for Applied Neuropsychology (CNA), which has a multidisciplinary team and is one of the largest neuropsychological research clinics in the country, receiving patients referred from several cities and states.

IDOR also has a technical support staff to conduct research, hired by IDOR or sponsored by the projects, in the following categories: research assistants, physicists, radiologists, biochemists, engineers, biostatisticians and computer technicians.

 

LABORATORIES:

- IDOR’s researchers have access to the diagnostic and therapeutic facilities of Rede D'Or São Luiz health organization, which include a modern technological park, imaging equipment and laboratory infrastructure.

- The Molecular Biology and Cellular Reprogramming Laboratory, with more than 250 m² of grounds and equipped through a partnership with UFRJ, was inaugurated in 2014, in a building adjacent to IDOR, and includes: two cellular culture laboratories, one of which is equipped with robotic pipetting and drug screening system - cell::explorer -, coupled with a High Content Screening Operetta equipment; a GMP laboratory for cell therapy clinical trials; a Molecular Biology area; a Microbiology area; Microscopy equipped with confocal microscope (Leica) and electrophysiology system (patch clamp), gases, generator and power infrastructure redundancies. The strategy for the next five years of the Laboratory is: clean room operation areas for cGMP cultivation and production of stem cells for clinical trials and therapeutic applications; knowledge generation and molecular biology equipment infrastructure; development of a cellular reprogramming platform for drug screening.

- Rede D'Or São Luiz health organization and IDOR’s Diagnostic and Imaging Research Center – adjacent to IDOR, the center has two high-field (3 Tesla) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners, a Computed Tomography scan and a PET CT scan used, mainly, for conducting research projects.

- The recent construction of oncology units phase 1 and 2, are important to support research lines in this area.

- The structuring of a tumors bank and biobank is being implemented.

- The expansions of the neurology and neurorehabilitation Ambulatory Care Units, along with Applied Neuropsychology Center (CNA), form an important clinical support complex for neuroscience research.

- Training and Education Center (CET-IDOR) – a building adjacent to IDOR with eleven realistic simulation laboratories (surgery, trauma and intensive medicine), two classrooms (25 seats each) and an auditorium with 80 seats. It is an IDOR’s sector that supports post-graduate education activities and high-level professional training.

- Since 2012, IDOR has established a Technological Innovation Nucleus (NIT-IDOR), in accordance with the Innovation Law (Law No. 10,973, dated December 2, 2004). NIT-IDOR prospects innovation projects in IDOR and in Rede D'Or São Luiz health organization, being responsible for analysis and filing of patents and software registrations, in addition to coordinating the establishment of R&D contracts in accordance with the Open Innovation guidelines and development contracts.

- IDOR is accredited at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) to import goods directed to scientific and technological research, with the benefits provided by Law No. 8.010/90, as amended by Law No. 10.964/2004. The Certificate of Accreditation at CNPq No. 900.1211/2014 endows IDOR with the right to directly import, with Manufactured Products Tax (IPI) and import tax exemption, machinery, equipment, apparatus and instruments, as well as its parts and spare parts, accessories, raw materials and intermediate products for scientific and technological research.

 

INFORMATICS RESOURCES:

- The D'Or Institute for Research and Education has advanced technology for data processing, using clustered servers, process distribution tools and a state-of-the-art data storage system, as well as a powerful tool for project management, internally developed by the staff. It offers a large number of workstations, with high speed internet access, for researchers and students.

- Clinical Research Platform, structured for study and data management, with the contribution of statisticians and data managers. This platform is based on the Red Cap system, which is a secure web application, developed by the University of Vanderbilt, for building and managing online surveys and databases.

- Registration at the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), under No. 137820, of a brain states decoding software, entitled FRIEND, used at IDOR and distributed as open-source license - following the guidelines of the Creative Commons - to the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

- IDOR has a contract with Scire-COPPE/UFRJ for an account at ATRIO platform that provides operational and management support services to the Postgraduate Program, including a web portal for public disclosure of its activities.

- IDOR’s communication sector uses various social networking sites like YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, in addition to being responsible for internal and external disclosure of Calls, courses, lectures and events, among other activities

 

LIBRARY:

- CAPES web portal, a library with small collection and access to the libraries of partner institutions. IDOR has a general and formal agreement with UFRJ’s Rectory for academic cooperation and technical, scientific and cultural exchange.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Some aspects related to the D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR) deserve special mention since they are associated with the modus operandi of the Program and act as facilitators of good scientific practices:

- scientific maturity of its researchers attested by the high-quality scientific production, by the sponsoring of their projects by national and international agencies and by the partnership initiatives for development and innovation with academic institutions and also with the industrial area;

- Easy access to the hospital facilities of Rede D'Or São Luiz health organization and its advanced diagnostic and therapeutic resources;

- The newly inaugurated Molecular Biology and Cellular Reprogramming Laboratory which incorporates a high-tech robotic technology and apparatus;

- The creation of a Clinical Research Platform, structured to studies and data management, with the participation of statisticians and data managers. This platform is based on the Red Cap system, which is a secure web application, developed by the University of Vanderbilt, for building and managing online surveys and databases;

- Registration at the Brazilian Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), under No. 137820, of a brain states decoding software, entitled FRIEND (interface image of FRIEND below), used in IDOR and distributed as open-source license - following the guidelines of the Creative Commons - to the University of Oxford, United Kingdom;

- a public-private unique partnership with FAPERJ through a Call (2014) in the amount of 10 million BRL (5 million from IDOR and 5 million from FAPERJ) for funding clinical and translational research in Rio de Janeiro, resulting in the creation of a Human Research Imaging Center derived from synergistic actions among various research groups;

- a robust international connection with noteworthy scientific leaderships in basic and applied research, resulting in collaborative projects, publishing articles as co-authors and high mobility of researchers and students among institutions, including NIH-USA, Pittsburgh University, USA, Manchester University - UK and King's College, UK;

- the commitment with the internationalization of the Institute's scientific activities, prioritizing the search for talents, the identification of new sectors and challenges, and the creation of performance and quality indicators that allow equivalence with institutions and programs of excellence abroad;

- IDOR, given its characteristics, is attracting young researchers, especially  postdoctoral researchers, from the country and abroad, who wish to deepen their knowledge and be exposed to an innovative scientific environment.

- IDOR presents itself as a pioneering and distinguished institution that develops healthcare research, bringing together researchers from different fields, whose investigations are aligned with the Institute’s main areas of knowledge.

 

INTERNATIONALIZATION

1) Faculty International Integration 

The supervisors of the IDOR Doctoral Program are senior researchers, and among the 17 supervisors, 12 are researchers from CNPq and FAPERJ scientists, with an average of over 100 articles published per year. The commitment is directed to publications in high quality journals with a high citation index. Regarding this item, the scientific production, IDOR Doctoral Program in Medical Sciences has a level of excellence comparable to courses with scores 6 and 7 according to CAPES evaluation.

Besides the outstanding intellectual production, we can highlight other characteristics of international integration of the Program’s supervisors:

Fernando Bozza - Google Scholar H-index: 31. Visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the year 2014-2015. Received funding for international cooperation projects with Pasteur Institute and the Merieux Foundation. He was elected representative of the Americas on the ISARIC’s - International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium (www.isaric.org) Executive Committee and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). He is the founder and current Coordinator of the Brazilian Research in Intensive Care Network (BRICNET- www.bricnet.org)

Jorge Salluh - Google Scholar H-index: 28.

- International Research Networks: InFact - http: //www.infactglobal.org/ (outcome measures group). TAVeM - International Ventilator-associated Tracheobronchitis study group (steering committee). ISARIC https://isaric.tghn.org/community/members/4763/

- Editor of international journals: Plos One Associate Editor

- Committees abroad: TAVeM 2 trial -steering committee (University of Lille-France). Epidemiology of subsyndromic delirium (Steering committee - NOVA University of Lisbon). GOSSIS - Global Outcomes Severity of Illness Scores (Steering committee - MIT/Harvard USA). Nine-i - International consortium for the study of critically ill immunocompromised hosts (Steering committee – University of Paris/ France.). International representative for South America - European society of intensive care (chair). BRICNet’s Scientific Committee Member (Brazilian Research in Intensive Care Network); R&D Director of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, ESICM, Belgium.

- Joint projects with international groups: 1) International comparisons on sepsis epidemiology - Intensive Care National Audit research center - ICNARC UK. 2) Outcome Measures in critical care - NICE - Netherlands intensive care evaluation - Netherlands. 3) Sepsis biomarkers and modeling of critical illness – NOVA University of Lisbon.

Marcio Soares - ISI H-index: 24; Google Scholar H-index: 33. International Research Networks: Member of Steering Committee of the 9-i (Caring for Critically Ill Immunocompromised Patients, Multinational Network). Editor of international journals: Section Editor, Intensive Care Medicine. International Committees: Evaluation of research projects for: The Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium; Cancer Research UK; Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Joint projects with international groups: LUCCA Study (Lung Cancer in Critical Care) - IDOR and St. Louis Hospital, Paris, France. Multicenter study in six countries of LATAM and Europe. EFRAIM Study - St. Louis Hospital, Paris, France. Multicenter study in 17 countries. Study coordination in Brazil.

Fernanda Tovar Moll - Google Scholar H-index: 15 - International Research Networks: International Research Consortium for the Corpus callosum and Cerebral Connectivity (IRC5). Roland Zahn, University of Manchester (project: Blame rebalance using functional MRI Neurofeedback). Emi Furukawa, Gail Tripp (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation) and Paulo Mattos (UFR/IDOR) - (project: Neurobiology of ADHD, team member). Mary Kay Floeter (NIH) - Neuroimaging of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and primary lateral sclerosis, and frontotemporal dementia. Angela Sirigu (CNRS/Lyon) - Neuroimaging in amputee and limb agenesis patients - development of the body map. Steve Jacobson and Afonso Silva (NIH) - Neuroplasticity and neuroimaging in preclinical models. - Editor of international journals: Proofreader of the journals: Biological Psychiatry (1969), Cortex (Milano Testo Stampato), Annals of Neurology, Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria (press), Plos One and Journal of Neuroimaging. - International events: Invited to the World Congress on Brain, Behavior and Emotions, 2015, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Invited to the World Congress on Brain, Behavior and Emotions, 2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina. - Projects or thesis in cooperation with international groups: International Research Consortium for the Corpus Callosum and Cerebral Connectivity (IRC5), a research consortium that aims to unite efforts to investigate the functions and the development of the corpus callosum, with the support of researchers from the United States, Australia and France. Roland Zahn, University of Manchester (project: Blame rebalance using functional MRI Neurofeedback). Emi Furukawa, Gail Tripp (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation) and Paulo Mattos (UFRJ/IDOR) - (project: Neurobiology of ADHD, team member). Mary Kay Floeter (NIH) - Neuroimaging of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and primary lateral sclerosis, and frontotemporal dementia. Angela Sirigu (CNRS/Lyon) - Neuroimaging in amputee and limb agenesis patients - development of the body map. Steve Jacobson and Afonso Silva (NIH) - Neuroplasticity and neuroimaging in preclinical models

Leonardo Fontenelle - Google Scholar H-index: 31. Integrates the international research network World Psychiatry Association, Anxiety and OCDs section. Associate Editor of the Journal Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders. Former academic-editor of PLoS ONE. Board of Directors, International College of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders. Participates in committees abroad: Reviewer of Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Reviewer of the South African Medical Research Council, South Africa. Reviewer of the Medical Research Council, United Kingdom. Received funding from international entities: David Winston Turner Endowment Fund, Australia. Joint Project with Prof. Ulrich Stangier, Goethe University, Frankfurt: Enhancing the pharmacological treatment of resistant social anxiety disorder with cognitive therapy. Call No. 39/2014 - Bilateral Cooperation Program FAPERJ/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Paulo Mattos - Google Scholar H-index: 22. Member of the international group ENIGMA ADHD, created in 2013 to gather MRI data of patients diagnosed with ADHD and healthy controls, over lifetime.

Heitor Souza - ISI H-index: 14; Google Scholar H-index: 18

International collaboration with Dr. Claudio Fiocchi, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH, USA, in the following research projects: 1) Dynamic maintenance of telomeres of intestinal mucosa inflammatory cells in inflammatory bowel diseases. 2) Investigation of pathogenic mechanisms and new approaches for diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases and colorectal cancer.

Jorge Moll Neto - Google Scholar H-index: 29. International Research Networks: Emi Furukawa and Gail Tripp, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology University, Project: Neurobiology of ADHD. Roland Zahn, King's College, London, project: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Neurofeedback in patients in remission from major depressive disorder: Clinical Proof of Concept. Murat Yucel, Monash University, Australia, agreement to establish a network of excellence in cognitive neuroscience. International Journal’s Editor: Associate Editor of Social Neuroscience and member of the editorial board of Dementia and Neuropsychology, Frontiers in Neuroscience and Frontiers for the Young Minds. International Events: Board and President of the World Congress on Brain, Behavior and Emotions, 2015, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Member of the Scientific Committee and invited speaker of the World Congress on Brain, Behavior and Emotions, 2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Funding from agencies or international organizations: Newton Fund Program 2015 in partnership with CONFAP – Senior Fellowship for the visiting researcher Gorana Pobric. OIST - Agreement with Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University. Projects or joint thesis with international groups: Emi Furukawa and Gail Tripp (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology University) (project: Neurobiology of ADHD). Roland Zahn, King's College, London, project: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Neurofeedback in patients in remission from major depressive disorder: Clinical Proof of Concept. Murat Yucel, Monash University, Australia, agreement to establish a network of excellence in cognitive neuroscience.

Stevens Rehen - H-index Google Scholar: 23

- Editor of international journals:

2014 - Present - Journal: Advances in Regenerative Biology

2012 - 2014 - Journal: PeerJ

2011 - 2012 - Journal: Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research (Printed)

2009 - Present - Journal: Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

2007 - Present - Journal: Vieira & Lent Casa Editorial Ltda

- Organize, coordinate, preside international events:

- 9th World Congress International Brain Research Organization. 2015.

- Regenerative Medicine from Stem Cells to Organs. 2015.

- 16th TWAS_ROLAC young scientists conference - Developmental Biology and Stem Cells - Functional Implications. 2014.

- Third International School on Production of Biopharmaceuticals in Animal Cell Cultures COPPE/UFRJ: Workshop Coordinator. 2008.

- I Congress IBRO/LARC of Neuroscience for Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Peninsula (I NeuroLatam). 2008

- Brain Repair and neuronal diversity: from genetic instability to stem cells. 2004.

-First Brazilian Meeting in Biomedical Sciences. 2004.

-Society for Neuroscience Meeting - Partners in the Mercosur, partners in Neuroscience: Brazil and Argentina get together in San Diego. 2004.

- Member of the Organizer Committee of the Ancillary Event - Brazilian Society for Neuroscience (SBNeC): Science, samba and capoeira. 2003.

 

2) Program Internationalization

IDOR Doctoral Program naturally blends with IDOR’s research activities, which already have a very robust international implication.

All research lines and many of the projects are conducted in active partnerships with international research groups that result in intense mobility in both directions, and authorship in scientific articles.

An average of 15 foreign researchers visit IDOR each year and, currently, the Institute receives 8 postdocs from abroad.

The Doctoral Program is open to foreign students and will offer international subjects and courses as of the second year, including the participation of foreign teachers via Skype/video/web.

In the first year of the Program the student must register for the core course "Scientific Writing" which aims to improve the writing and communicative qualities of scientific papers written in English.

 

FACULTY AND STUDENTS MOBILITY

Leonardo Fontenelle: Visiting professor, Monash Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Australia.

PhD student (UFRJ - Ilana Frydman) will spend two months in Monash Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences at Monash University, Australia.

Fernando Bozza - Visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the year 2014-2015.

 

Jorge Moll Neto - "Incube Labs/IDOR Applied Science/Exchange Program/Stanford University, Silicon Valley: to receive PhD students and Wezmamm Institute of Science, Israel.