TARGETS

The goals established by the PPG-OFT/ORL/CCP are fully aligned with the Institutional Development Plan, set for the 2023-2027 five-year period (https://www.fmrp.usp.br/wp-content/uploads/sites/356/2025/02/PROJETO-ACADEMICO-INSTITUCIONAL_2023_2027_FINAL_REVISADO.pdf). Among the goals established by the FMRP for research and graduate studies, we have achieved or contributed to all 5 goals within our purview, including:

  • Increased the inclusion of graduate students (PG) and young researchers at FMRP-USP, especially with interfaces in the healthcare area.

  • Promoted interaction between basic and clinical research.

  • Helped strengthen multi-user laboratories and expanded their use.

  • Assisted in the restructuring of multi-user Animal Experimentation laboratories through departmental and individual research funding.

  • Increased the scientific output of the Departments with individual responsibility and research integrity.

The FMRP-USP, as well as the PPG-OFT/ORL/CCP, has sought various actions aimed at institutional structural improvements, such as supporting and consolidating multi-user laboratories, reorganizing physical spaces and human resources with a logic that allows for the proper functioning of multi-user animal facilities, training and empowering technicians and graduate students to use multi-user laboratories and animal facilities, and prioritizing the use of the FAPESP Institutional Technical Reserve for the renovation of multi-user laboratories and animal facilities.

Currently, we see our program as having a consolidated national reputation in different areas, with increasing international visibility and influence. Our faculty has had growing international collaboration with research groups and universities abroad, and we expect to increase collaborations by at least 10% in the next four-year period, stimulated by the exchange between faculty and researchers.

Furthermore, for the next four-year period, we expect one of the 19 permanent faculty members (DP) to leave, and we are actively recruiting individuals with the desired profile to become new permanent faculty members for the program.