Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto
Category(ies): Academic Institutions; Laboratory / Analytical Services; R&D Institutions
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Address: Alameda Prof. Hernâni Monteiro; 4200-319 Porto; Portugal
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Keyword(s): Allergy, Cardiovascular System, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Health Sciences, Research & Development
The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) is an institution of creation, diffusion, and application of knowledge in the area of Medicine and other areas of Health Sciences and Human Biology, focused on the scientific, technologic, and humanistic training of physicians and other health professionals, and in the overall improvement in health of the population at large. FMUP is on the national top institutions, having published 623 original publications indexed in ISI with impact factor in 2016. FMUP has over three thousand students spread over several study cycles (graduate and undergraduate). About 70% of the teaching staff have a doctorate and, as a whole, the non-teaching staff are young and proactive (about 500 collaborators). FMUP shares its facilities with the largest hospital in the north of Portugal – São João Hospital – and constitutes, together with the latter, the CUME – Universitary Centre of Medicine.
R&D Projects
Control and Burden of Asthma and Rhinitis
COSTProMed - Communication Skills Teaching Programme in Medicine
Damage of Primary Afferent Neurons Associated With Experimental Osteoarthritis
Outcome after severe trauma: Implications for the clinical approach
Parenting roles and knowledge in neonatal intensive care units
Role of ascending serotoninergic pathways in epileptogenesis and epilepsy-related brain damage
The brain during chronic pain: how mu-opioid receptors may enhance nociceptive transmission?
Contact person
Pedro Augusto
Science Manager
sciman@med.up.pt
+351 220 426 838
Service Centres
Laboratory of Microscopic and Ultramicroscopic Imagiology (LIMU)
Laboratory of Support to Research in Molecular Medicine (LAIMM)
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