Centro Universitário São Lucas

Centro Universitário São Lucas is a private higher-education institution in Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil, focused on undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing education, with a particularly strong presence in health-related training. The institution was founded in 1999, began operations in 2000, and offers programs including medicine, nursing, physiotherapy, pharmacy, biomedicine, dentistry, psychology, nutrition, and other health disciplines alongside non-health courses. It operates as part of the Afya education network and in late 2025 adopted the Afya brand more explicitly as Afya São Lucas/Afya Porto Velho. Although it is not a biotech or pharmaceutical developer, it is healthcare-related through medical and allied-health education, clinical training, academic extension, and community health activities.