Cellular and molecular analyses of semen from patients with testicular cancer.
Date: 01/01/2010
To study the mechanisms of cellular and molecular alterations in semen samples from men with testicular cancer, in order to identify better methods of fertility preservation.
Renato Fraietta and Ricardo Pimenta Bertolla
Student body
Rosana Xavier Souza
Machine-learning application to study the mechanism of evolutive urological tumors
Date: 01/11/2018
This project aims to screen in silico and experimental data to follow and determine molecular markers, as well as their association with clinical data, in the study of urological tumors.
Hatylas Felype Zaneti de Azevedo, Mariana Antoniassi and Paula Intasqui Lopes
Student Body
Tiago Aparecido Silva and Jorge Luis Wilson Junior
Application of metabolomics in the global evaluation of steroids biosynthesis.
Date: 01/02/2012
Steroidomic processes associated with male fertility are still poorly understood. Because the testis is an organ with an intense steroidogenic activity, it is essential to understand the role of this activity on male fertility.
Funding: Chamada Fleury de Pesquisa
Ricardo Pimenta Bertolla, Paula Intasqui Lopes and João Diego Agostini Losano
Student Body
Renata Cristina de Carvalho
Associated Researchers from Grupo Fleury
Karina Helena Morais Cardozo and Valdemir Melechco Carvalho
Aplication of post-genomic technology to study in vitro culture of embryo and embryonic stem-cells .
Date: 01/04/2015
To use post-genomic technology for the study and determination of in vitro culture conditions for oocytes and embryos, as well as stem cells.
Funding: FAPESP and CAPES
Edson Guimarães Lo Turco and Mariana Camargo
Student Body
Gabrielle Ferrante Alves de Moraes, Karla Pacheco de Melo and Lilian Barreto
Prognostic aspects and surgical complications in renal transplant.
Date: 09/27/2016
Survey of database on transplant patients to assess the prognostic effects and complications of kidney transplant surgery.
Wilson Ferreira Aguiar
Student Body
Mauro Miguel de Lima Sousa Barbosa, Guilherme Alonso Daud Patavino, Matheus Brandão Vasco, Rafael Haddad Astolfi and Veridiana Costa Andrioli.
Evaluation of voiding dysfunction and its impact on life quality.
Date: 01/01/2008
To deepen the knowledge regarding the pathophysiological mechanisms and to develop advanced and innovative methods for the treatment of vesico-sphincteric dysfunctions.
Fernando Gonçalves de Almeida
Student Body
Mariana Rhein Felippe, Marcia Eli Girotti de Azevedo, Carla Lemos and Monique Rodrigues
Systems biology and sperm functional quality in the study of male infertility.
Date: 01/10/2012
The aim of this approach is to determine the protein profile of seminal plasma and sperm samples from healthy men and to compare it to samples from men under different clinical conditions. In this study, we also aim to analyse the association between the
Funding: CNPq and FAPESP
Ricardo Pimenta Bertolla, Mariana Camargo, Mariana Pereira Antoniassi and Paula Intasqui Lopes
Student Body
Luana Nayara Galego Adami
Biomarkers of testicular function in semen and sperm of adolescents with varicocele.
Date: 03/01/2015
To study the protein and molecular markers of male infertility and of testicular function in adolescents with varicocele.
Funding: CNPq
Agnaldo Pereira Cedenho and Ricardo Pimenta Bertolla
Student body
Mika Alexia
Development of surgical techniques and application of tissue engeneering in terapeutic of pediatric urological affections.
Date: 03/01/2018
The aim of this project is to develop and substantiate specific surgical techniques for the approach of pediatric patients, as well as to develop and use technologies based on tissue engineering for making tissues to be used in grafts to correct urological changes in children and adolescents.
Agnaldo Pereira Cedenho
Student Body
Samuel Saiovici and Veridiana Costa Andrioli
Analysis of the lipidomic and metabolomic profile of follicular fluid, cumulus cells, and blood plasma of women with different causes of infertility undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment.
Date: 08/01/2012
Lipidomic and metabolomic analysis in follicular fluid, cumulus cells, blood plasma and culture medium of embryos of infertile women submitted to in vitro fertilization.
Funding: FAPESP
Edson Guimarães Lo Turco
Student Body
Gabrielle Ferrante Alves de Moraes
Effect of supplements addition in human semen processing and cryopreservation.
Date: 02/11/2016
Analysis of sperm quality submitted to seminal processing and semen cryopreservation after supplementation with vitamin E, L-carnitine, glucose and / or oxidative phosphorylation blocker.
Ricardo Pimenta Bertolla
Student body
Luana Nayara Gallego Adami
Comparative study between pulverization or fragmentation and stone removal during flexible urolitotripsia.
Date: 09/27/2016
Comparative study between pulverization or fragmentation and stone removal during flexible urolitotripsia.
Mariana Camargo and Marcus Vinicius Sadi
Student Body
Alex Elton Meller and Gustavo Freschi
Study of semen toxicity in spinal cord injured men.
Date: 04/01/2017
Patients with spinal cord injury have anejaculation and seminal plasma toxicity. This project aims to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms of these changes, as well as the effect of treatment with oral anti-inflammatories - which have been shown to improve seminal quality.
Funding: FAPESP
Ricardo Pimenta Bertolla, Mariana Camargo and Paula Intasqui Lopes
Student body
Karla Pacheco and Lilian Barreto
Associated Researches from University of Miami (USA)
Nancy Brackett and Charles Lynne
Study of a new approach for an early detection of varicocele-induced testicular dysfunction.
Date: 04/02/2012
To characterize, from the cellular and molecular point of view, the mechanisms that determine the testicular alteration in adolescents and adults with varicocele.
Funding: Chamada Fleury de Pesquisa
Ricardo Pimenta Bertolla
Student Body
Aram Minas, Valter Luiz Maciel and Gustavo Nogueira
Associated Researchers from Grupo Fleury
Karina Helena Morais Cardozo and Valdemir Melechco Carvalho
Study of seminal mollecular environment and its relation with sperm fuctional quality.
Date: 07/01/2014
Study of sperm function biomarkers in various cases of male infertility.
Funding:FAPESP and CAPES
Paula Intasqui Lopes, Ricardo Pimenta Bertolla and Mariana Camargo
Student Body
Beatriz Braga Ribeiro and Leticia Kaory Tamashiro
Impact of obesity on sperm functional quality and semen proteomic mechanisms.
Date: 09/01/2010
This study aims to verify how obesity may alter spermatogenesis and semen protein expression.
Funding: FAPESP
Ricardo Pimenta Bertolla and Renato Fraietta
Student body
Renata Cristina de Carvalho
Technical innovations and prognostic factors in renal cancer surgery.
Date: 10/01/2013
To evaluate the real role of innovations in patient survival and its correlation with the molecular and histological tumor type, as well as with possible tumor markers in kidney tumors.
Faculty Researchers
Hatylas Felipe Zaneti de Azevedo, Marcus Vinicius Sadi and Stenio de Cássio Zequi
Student Body
Jorge Luis Wilson Junior, Renato Meirelles Mariano da Costa Junior and Tiago Aparecido Silva
Associated Researchers
Thomé Decio Pinheiro Barros Junior and Carlos Eugenio Lira Tenório.
Association between heat shock proteins (HSP) expression and oxidative stress in patients with varicocele.
Date: 07/01/2015
Evaluation of seminal levels of heat shock proteins and their association with seminal oxidative stress in men with varicocele.
Faculty Researchers
Ricardo Pimenta Bertolla and Mariana Pereira Antoniassi
Student Body
Gustavo Augusto Keusch Albano Nogueira
Seminal subjacent pathways to male infertility clinics.
Date: 10/01/2017
The aim of this project is to study the molecular pathways that can be observed in different causes of male infertility.
Faculty Researchers
Renato Fraietta, Ricardo Pimenta Bertolla and Mariana Pereira Antoniassi
Faculty Researchers
Renata Cristina de Carvalho and Matheus Ferreira Groner