Expansion of the Pediatric Clinical Research Laboratory (LIM 36) and establishment of a coordinating area for the support centre for research in children and adolescent health issues (NAP-CriAd-USP)

• Grant number: 12/51599-7
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Technical Reserve for Institutional Research Infrastructure
• Start date: April 01, 2013
• End date: March 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine - Maternal and Child Health
• Principal Investigator: Magda Maria Sales Carneiro-Sampaio
• Grantee: Magda Maria Sales Carneiro-Sampaio
• Host Institution: Instituto da Criança Professor Doutor Pedro de Alcantara (ICR). Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP (HCFMUSP). Secretaria da Saúde (São Paulo - Estado). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Department of Pediatrics of the University of São Paulo Medical School (FMUSP) located the Children's Institute (ICR), has only one research laboratory (LlM-36), which has been harboring a growing number of research groups in the areas of Genetic Genomics, Immunology, Oncology-Hematology, Rheumatology and Pulmonology. In order to increase the area of the laboratory, the Council of the Department of Pediatrics (MPE) and the Board of Directors of the Children's Institute decided to assign a physical area of…. m2, adjoining to the office of MPE, to be adapted to harbor the administrative support structure of LlM-36 (which besides being in charge of price quotes, purchasing and accounting, also advertises research funding opportunities to MPE and ICR researchers. These Councils believe that the new area can also be used to establish the coordinating team of the newly founded Center for Research Support on Children and Adolescent Health (NAP CriAd) which was created with support of the USP Dean of Research and will be headquartered at ICr. In addition to teaching in the Department of Pediatrics and medical FMUSP ICR, NAP CriAd also houses researchers from FSP, EE, IP, FD and the Departments of Legal Medicine and Psychiatry of the Medical School, which are involved in two major research lines: i) Interfaces between Health Sciences and the Law, whose main focus is "The right to Health", ii) the impact of recent changes in lifestyle of our society on children and adolescent health. The following projects are already in development: 1. Assessment of costs and legal feasibility of a program of care to patients with rare diseases in the State of S. Paulo, 2. Child Friendly Diagnosis: assessing the impact of rationalization and humanization of imaging and laboratory diagnostic techniques, 3. The influence of digital media and television in adolescent health, 4. Conjugality and parenting in reconstituted families, 5. Interfaces of breastfeeding in the prison system: law, duty, meanings and reality, 5. The ''Way Back Project": application of molecular genetic techniques in the identification of missing children. (AU)