History

The PIPGCF is a by-product of the PPGCF, Graduate Program in Physiological Sciences, created at the Center for Biological and Health Sciences (CCBS) of UFSCar in December 1992. The collaboration with UNESP began with the occasional participation of external faculty members from the School of Dentistry (FOAr) and the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, both from the Araraquara Campus in the 1990s, followed by a partnership stimulated by CAPES in July 2001. This endorsement by CAPES was an essential indication that the two Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) were on the right track to support a Program synergistically or with greater strength than acting individually. Indeed, in October 2008, an association was created between UFSCar (CCBS) and UNESP (FOAr and FCFAr), and in August 2009, we had the PIPGCF/ UFSCar-UNESP Association.