The Graduate Program in Endocrinology at UFRJ will host another edition of its Basic-Clinical Integrative Seminar next Tuesday (May 27). The meeting will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the Endocrinology Department Meeting Room.

Date: May 27, 2025
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Endocrinology Department Meeting Room (9th floor, Block E, Room 23 – HUCFF)
Format: Hybrid

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The seminar will feature two presentations by master's students from the program—one from the basic area and the other from the clinical area—fostering dialogue between different fields of endocrinology.

Basic Area Presentation: Evaluation of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) metabolism in the skeletal muscle of ovariectomized rats.
Presenter: Caio do Nascimento Lima
Advisor: Rodrigo Fortunato

Clinical Area Presentation: Study of osteometabolic changes in individuals with type 1 diabetes mellitus treated at the Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital outpatient clinic – UFRJ.
Presenter: Filipe Barbosa Linhares
Advisors: Maria Lucia Fleiuss de Farias and Melanie Rodacki

Meetings on the Care of Patients with Turner Syndrome promoted by the Outpatient Clinic of the Institute of Puericulture and Pediatrics Martagão Gesteira (IPPMG-UFRJ) will continue throughout 2025. The meetings, held every two months, include the participation of patients, family members, healthcare professionals, and students interested in the topic.

The team responsible for the meetings consists of PhD candidates Isla Paiva and Karinne Mafort, under the coordination of Professor Marilia Martins Guimarães. The next meeting is scheduled for April 2 and will address cardiological complications in patients with the syndrome, as well as the care recommendations outlined in the new Clinical Care Guide for Patients with Turner Syndrome. The Cardiology team from IPPMG will participate in the discussion.

The meetings will continue to take place on the first Wednesday of even-numbered months, with scheduled dates as follows: April 2, June 4, August 13, October 1, and December 3.

Date: 04/29/2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Meeting Room of the Endocrinology Department (9th floor, Block E, Room 23 - HUCFF)
Streaming: Zoom

Basic research presentation: Thyroid hormones reduce sepsis severity scores in mice.
Master’s Student: Matheus da Silva Ferreira
Advisors: Tania Maria Ruffoni Ortiga and Flavia Fonseca Bloise

Clinical research presentation: Study of biomarkers in patients with pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas and clinical-pathological correlations.
PhD Student: Paula Bruna Mattos Coelho Araújo
Advisors: Alice Helena Dutra Violante and Leandro Miranda-Alves

With the goal of encouraging continuous education and promoting excellent scientific discussions, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) held the I International Transdisciplinary Symposium 2024. The symposium brought together international speakers, professors, researchers, and students from UFRJ's graduate programs in health sciences.

The Graduate Program in Endocrinology actively participated in the event and received three honorable mentions for poster presentations:

1 - Investigation of the binding affinity of endocrine disruptors to androgen receptor

Reinaldo Röpke Junior¹^,² , Sunday Amos Onikanni¹, Pedro de Sena Murteira Pinheiro³^,⁴, Leandro Miranda-Alves¹^,²^,⁴

(1) Laboratory of Experimental Endocrinology (LEEx), Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; (2) Graduate Program in Endocrinology, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; (3) Laboratory for the Evaluation and Synthesis of Bioactive Substances (LASSBio), Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; (4) Graduate Program of Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

2 - Study of osteometabolic changes in individuals with type 1 Diabetes mellitus treated at the outpatient clinic of the Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital (HUCFF)

Filipe Barbosa Linhares¹, Laura Maria Carvalho de Mendonça², Miguel Madeira¹, Leonardo Vieira Neto¹, Melanie Rodacki³, Maria Lucia Fleiuss de Farias¹

(1) Graduate Program in Endocrinology, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; (2) Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology Unit, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; (3) Nutrology and Diabetes Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

3 - Endothelial to mesenchymal transition in non-functioning gonadotroph adenomas

Thiago Guedes Van Erven Louzada¹^,², Elisa Lamback¹^,²^,³, Renan Miranda², Felipe Andreiuolo², Rômulo Sperduto Dezonne², Mônica R. Gadelha¹^,²^,³

(1) Neuroendocrinology Research Center/Endocrinology Division, Medical School and Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; (2) Neuropathology and Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Paulo Niemeyer State Brain Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; (3) Neuroendocrine Unit, Paulo Niemeyer State Brain Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Check HERE all the participations of the Graduate Program in Endocrinology at the I International Transdisciplinary Symposium 2024.