ICB-V – Advanced Campus in Monte Negro, state of Rondônia
ICB-V conducts field research on neglected endemic diseases in the Amazon, like malaria, leishmaniasis, filariasis, toxoplasmosis and Chagas disease. The campus has a specialized medical clinic to treat patients with tropical diseases, in addition to an oral health center with five dental clinics and a speech therapy clinic built in partnership with USP’s School of Dentistry in Bauru.
There is also a 240 m² complete research laboratory, a 40 m² clinical laboratory and a 200 m² insectary. The campus has accommodations for 60 people and an air-conditioned auditorium with a capacity of 50 people. There are also vehicles and boats available to the research crews.
Each year, these facilities host visiting students from ICB’s Biomedical Sciences courses, which offers an opportunity for training and the exercise of field work in Parasitology, Microbiology, Public Health and related areas. ICB-V has a positive contribution to the formation of local students and in raising awareness on themes like preservation and sustainable use of natural resources, the environment, ecology and public health.
Address: Biomédicas V – Rua Francisco Prestes, 2728 – Bairro Setor 2 – Monte Negro/Rondônia – CEP 76888-000
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Since 2011, ICB researchers and students maintain a laboratory dedicated to the epidemiology and control of malaria in urban and rural communities, in collaboration with Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC) e o Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC) of Fiocruz.
The laboratory leads the Brazilian contribution to the Amazonian International Center of Excellence in Malaria Research – a consortium of Brazilian, Peruvian and North American researchers with financial support from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health, United States.
In 2019, Professors Claudio Marinho, Gerhard Wunderlich and Carten Wrenger organized the course ICB5763 – Practice of Molecular Diagnosis for Malaria in Vale do Juruá, in collaboration with Professor Rodrigo Medeiros de Souza from UFAC. This practice-oriented course offered the students a first-hand experience in a malaria-endemic region, presenting the challenges of controlling this disease.
The laboratory was first installed in 2004 in the city of Acrelândia, with financial support from FAPESP, CNPq, Brazil’s Ministry of Health e NIAID (USA). Prior to being transferred to the city of Cruzeiro do Sul, it offered research internships for students from ICB and other institutes, like the School of Public Health of USP, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) and Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC). The facilities received foreign students as well, from Institutions like the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Harvard University, University of Ultrecht and University of Münster.
