Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

Brazilian federal university with its main campus in Vitória, the capital of Espírito Santo, founded in 1954 and federalised in 1961, with further campuses at Alegre, São Mateus and Maruípe. Teaches pharmacy, medicine, dentistry, nursing, nutrition and biological sciences through its health sciences centre, runs the Cassiano Antônio de Moraes university hospital for clinical teaching and trials, and carries out research in pharmaceutical sciences, natural products, toxicology and public health with its own laboratories.