PPGIT presents Pharmaceuticals, Medicines, and Essential Health Supplies as an Area of ¿¿Concentration, which is focused on the discovery and development of new health technologies, adding competences in the fields of intellectual property, produced space, human and economic development with inclusion and social equity.

PPGIT operates in three interconnected and articulated research lines, as follows:

I. Design, Molecular Modeling, and Preparation of Bioactive Products

This line of research brings together fundamental and applied research themes concerned with the rational planning of innovative products for health, meeting the needs of new technologies for the health of the Brazilian population, with an emphasis on pharmaceuticals, medicines, vaccines, and diagnostics. Within the scope of this Line, projects are developed for studies of molecular modeling, planning, synthesis and structural analysis of new bioactive compounds.

II. Pre-clinical Development of Bioactive Products

The pre-clinical development of bioactive products has as a main component the bioassay, that is, the search for the humanization of new health technologies through the application of in vitro and in vivo methodologies. In this sense, pre-clinical research includes studies on new products that show promise during the basic research phase to evaluate the parameters of safety, effectiveness, acceptability and confidence.

III. Territory, Development and Technological Innovation in Health

The development of new drugs, medicines, and essential health supplies has effects on people, societies and economies. These effects were different in time and space. Individuals and societies follow values ¿¿and structures that result from the articulation between endogenous and exogenous factors that interact and produce different ways of reacting to innovations. These different reactions, access and forms of appropriation of technological innovations and their impacts on people, society and territory, are the object of the research line Territory, Development and Technological Innovation in Health.