Fortaleza-Ceará

     The annual meeting of the XXII Tropical Medicine Research Center is a regular annual scientific event, which began in 1996 and will be in its twentieth year in 2018. The event was created to bring together researchers, technicians and students at national and international levels interested in the scientific and technological development of research on tropical diseases that afflict populations in the region in the Brazilian semi-arid region. Initially the event was held with the effective participation of three groups of national researchers and three groups of international researchers. The groups of national researchers were led by Edgar M. Carvalho, Federal University of Bahia, Selma Jerônimo, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, and Aldo AM Lima, Federal University of Ceará.    International groups were led by researchers, Warren Johnson, Cornell University, NY, Richard L. Guerrant, University of Virginia, CHO, VA and Lee W. Liley, University of California, Berkeley, CA. In this edition the event is entitled "Infectious Diseases and Pharmacology: new molecular pathways". In this subject, we will cover topics of ongoing research and perspectives in several areas of tropical medicine, motility and neurogastroenterology, such as enteric infections, environmental enteropathy, malnutrition, leishmaniasis, diseases affecting gastrointestinal motility, neurogastroenterology and pancreatitis.

    The event will be held at Oceani Brach Park Hotel, Aquiraz, CE, November 23-24, 2018. The event is free and open to researchers, teachers, undergraduate and graduate students as well as technical staff. Annually the event receives from 40-60 people participants from national, international researchers, students and technicians. The event has contributed to the development of research in tropical medicine at national and international level, maintenance of two networks, one at the national level and another international research on the topics mentioned. We also cite the effective participation and in the last eight years of two INCTs (Biomedicine and Immunology of Tropical Diseases).  National and international collaboration, such as the exchange of post-graduate students and technicians, was significant and in this sense a long-term model was created for this type of scientific and technological activity. We are currently supporting the recent project approved at the Pro-Rectory of UFC and already under execution called CAPES-Print International with the effective participation of collaboration between groups of national and international researchers from the Federal University of Ceará, State University of Ceará, University of Virginia, VA, USA, Imperial College London, UK, Queen Mary University of London, UK, Center for Diarrheal Diseases Research, ICDDR, B, Dhaka, Bangladesh, and University of Liverpool. From this collaboration and interaction were benefited and created new institutes of research, postgraduate courses national and international.