Research

PROCC Research

Find out more about our lines of research:

 

  • Quantitative methods applied to Biology and Public Health

Public Health Surveillance:

Epidemiological Surveillance

Molecular epidemiological Surveillance

Modelling applied to surveillance

Genomic Surveillance

Monitoring the evolution and spread of viruses and bacteria that cause infectious diseases

Tracking antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

Development of the digital application CABGen in partnership between PROCC and the Paraguayan Ministry of Health

Conducting computational analyses for Brazil’s National Genomic Surveillance Network for Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria

           

  • Epidemiology

Epidemiology of communicable diseases

Environmental epidemiology and ecoepidemiology of vector-borne diseases

Quantitative methods applied to the clinical epidemiology of infectious diseases

Biomathematics, dynamics of transmission processes and population ecology of vectors

 

  • Computational Biophysics and Molecular Modelling

Modelling and molecular dynamics of biomolecules

Analysis of protein normal modes

Extended sampling hybrid simulations

Free energy estimation through computer simulations

Integrative structural modelling of large macromolecular complexes

 

  • Mathematical modelling of biosystems

Mathematics Applied to Health

Applied bayesian statistics

Computational Modelling of Multidrug-resistant Bacteria

Computational Modelling of Cancer

Big Data in Public Health