33) Group of researchers cede right of patent for a vaccine for dental caries

On the first day of the school year, students of the Institute of Medicine of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS) have been urged to invest more in research. Sousa Pereira, chairman of the Governing Board, began by praise the importance of the work done by a group of researchers from the institute in the discovery of a vaccine for dental caries and pointed the finger to students who have not taken the money deployed in the last year for the program Research.

This year, in spite of last year have not been spending the 20 thousand euros provided, the amount invested will be higher in the expectation of a rise of applications with quality forward. "A country is developed not by the number of scientific articles published, but for patent notes that," said, referring to negotiations with a pharmaceutical company for the transfer of patent law of the discoveries made in the context of the vaccine for dental caries. Sousa Pereira insisted economic impact that this work will allow and reiterated that "we must make a leap" in scientific research.

The officer acknowledged that students need to be motivated and listed the investments planned for the ICBAS this year. In addition to the simulator resuscitação that already exists, this year students can count on a simulator of labor and gynecological exam and with a center of cardio-respiratory simulation. In the pipeline is to give practical classes using simulated patients from a partnership with schools in theaters in the city of Porto. The university will thus the hypothesis of early contact with patients "encenados" to be subject to a long training so that there is a great approach to real situations.

The ceremony Sollari Allegro, chairman of the board of the Hospital General de Santo António, the students received the confirmation that the unit will receive the status of a university hospital. The doctor explained that lack appoint the director of teaching HGSA and was offered the name of Bernardo Amaral. Students spend the ICBAS still rely on partnerships with the Centre Hospitalier de Gaia and the IPO.

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