The Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, best known by its

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IPATIMUP ( pt, Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto), is a

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dedicated to the

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. An associate laboratory of the University of Porto,

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, starting on November 23, 2000, it has been headed by Portuguese researcher Manuel Sobrinho Simões who was empowered with the task of founding it. IPATIMUP's major lines of action are the prevention and early diagnosis of stomach cancer or precocious lesions, and diagnosis quality improvement of malignant

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and pre-malignant lesions. The numerous published papers and important results related to gastric and esophagical cancer make this one of the (if not the) top-level cancer-related research institutions in

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and in

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. But as a scientific teaching-associated institution, its main goals also are: * Research in human

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, specifically oncobiology (

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); * Training of graduate students, technicians, residents and specialists in Pathology; * Share of scientific knowledge and teaching of undergraduate students; * Providing sophisticated diagnostic expertise in the covered research fields covered -

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, Oncobiology and

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