"MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF MULTI-USER LABORATORIES"

• Grant number: 23/15896-1
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Technical Reserve for Institutional Research Infrastructure
• Start date: March 01, 2024
• End date: February 28, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Dentistry - Dental Clinics
• Principal Investigator: Glauco Issamu Miyahara
• Grantee: Glauco Issamu Miyahara
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Odontologia (FOA). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araçatuba. Araçatuba , SP, Brazil

Abstract

With the growing number of researches being developed and the reduction of financial resources coming from the University and from the Development Agencies, the Araçatuba Dental School (FOA) has stimulated the sharing of the research infrastructure among professors, Research Groups and Graduate Programs with the aim of maintaining quality and scientific productivity. The FOA Departments, such as Basic Sciences, Preventive and Restorative Dentistry, Diagnosis and Surgery, and Dental Materials and Prosthodontics, make available and share the infrastructure and equipment of other laboratories that are in the process of creating the Multiuser Centers. However, frequent and regular use by a larger number of users leads to a rapid deterioration of shared infrastructure and equipment. In this context, there was a consensus between the researchers who generated the "Institutional Technical Reserve to Support Research Infrastructure" (base year 2022) and the Faculty's Management to apply the Resources in the execution of the maintenance and improvement of the infrastructure of the multi-user laboratories that support the Graduate Programs at the Araçatuba Dental School. Considering the problem raised and the available resources, the objective of the present proposal will be the acquisition of laboratory equipment with the purpose of increasing the capacity of the research infrastructure to the users, reaching some of the main places of support to the research of the Araçatuba Dental School. Five laboratories will be served. In the previous Project (FAPESP n. 2022/15607-7), two laboratories and the Bioterium for Maintenance and Experimentation in Rodents were benefited. Thus, the Araçatuba Dental School will be able to maintain and improve its research infrastructure, strengthening research groups and graduate programs and, consequently, raise the level of research to the international standard of publication. (AU)