Professor Valentim Adelino Ricardo Barão, from the Department of Prosthesis and Periodontology at the Faculty of Dentistry of Piracicaba (FOP) at Unicamp, is in the city of Chongqing, China, visiting Southwest University for the opening of the multicenter project sponsored by the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) in Brazil, by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and the Department of Science and Technology of India through the Brics 2022 Notice.
The contemplated project is entitled “Surface Engineering of Biomedical Implants for the Prevention of Infection by Microorganisms Resistant to Multiple Drugs/Medications” and aims to add knowledge in the areas of materials science, microbiology, molecular biology and regenerative medicine to consolidate a new therapeutic strategy in the fight against pathogens resistant to multiple drugs and related to cases of infection in implants and biomedical devices.
On the occasion, the Brics Joint Laboratory on Biomedical Materials laboratory was inaugurated, a laboratory resulting from the partnership between the three main universities involved in the project: Unicamp, Southwest University and the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (India), being based at the School of Materials and Energy from the latter university. According to Barão, the completion of this laboratory, a source of great personal pride for the professor, will certainly bring a range of possibilities for exchange of students and professors between institutions and the development of cutting-edge research in the area of Materials Science, since that China is by far the country with the greatest production and greatest scientific expression in this area of knowledge worldwide. In addition to these three universities, the University of Guarulhos (Brazil) and the Beijing University of Chemical Technology (China) also participate in the project.
The group's next meeting will take place in 2024, in India, and later in Brazil. To conclude, Barão highlights that, in Brazil, the project involves graduates and students from the Postgraduate Program in Dental Clinic at FOP (professor João Gabriel Silva Souza, professor Rafael Cavalcante Costa, Bruna Egumi Nagay and Luís Fernando Bandeira), highlighting the quality of the program when training its students for a highly competitive job market.
