Last month, #i3S researcher Rosmarie Schoefbeck was awarded the yESAO Research Exchange Award.
With this award, Rosmarie will carry out a one-week scientific exchange at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin to study hemocompatibility of #biomaterials.
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#i3S researchers Ricardo Monteiro and Filipa Neves stood out at the “Parasitology in Portugal” 2026 Symposium, by winning the Best Poster and Best Oral Presentation, respectively.
The young researchers study parasites that cause malaria and leishmaniasis.
#peopleofi3S #i3Sawards #parasitology
Mónica Sousa is "Researcher of the Year" at University of Porto in 2026! 🌟
Mónica has been awarded the UPorto Award for Excellence in Scientific Research 2026 in the field of Health and Life Sciences.
Congratulations!
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Delfim Duarte, group leader at #i3S, studies immunotherapies in aggressive #lymphomas. His work was recognized by the Gilead Genesis program, which awarded 37 500€ to study the role of blood vessels responsible for recruiting immune cells that fight lymphoma
Congratulations👏
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Bruno Sarmento, @brunocsarmento.bsky.social, has been elected to the College of Fellows of the AIMBE, one of the most prestigious distinctions in the field of biomedical engineering.
Congratulations!👏
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Five of the 16 oncology research grants awarded this year by Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro – Núcleo Regional do Norte went to #i3S 👏
Read the full news story to find out what our researchers will be working on. 👇
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#i3S researcher Elisabete Teixeira was awarded the First Prize in Clinical Research and the Prof. Edward Limbert Fellowship in Thyroid Pathology, presented during the 77th Annual Meeting of SPEDM, held in Coimbra, for her research on #thyroid dysfunctions and cancer.
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João Nogueira, a PhD student carrying out his research work at #i3S in the field of Human Genetics, has won the National Junior Researcher Prize by SPGH, in collaboration with ESHG.
His research explores the influence of genome regulation in genetic disease development.
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#i3S researcher Mónica Sousa was awarded an #ERC Advanced Grant last month, worth 2.5M€, to pursue her work with the spiny mouse and understand the mechanisms that drive spinal cord regeneration.
Learn more about project CORDheal 📺👀👇
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A travel grant awarded by #FEBS is helping fund Cátia Santos's stay in Italy. There, the MSc student at #i3S will learn new techniques to study the role of the AHR receptor in the development and proliferation of #melanoma ☀️
Congrats✈️
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#i3S researcher Joana Peixoto was awarded a Portuguese League Against Cancer/Lions Portugal Medical Research Grant - Childhood #Cancer, worth €15K.
Congratulations👏
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The #i3S project DeepFastCOV was distinguished in the first edition of the Mais a Norte Awards, in the category Norte Mais Inovador.
Get to know the project and how it came to be↩️
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The 16th Jenner Glycobiology and Medicine Symposium, which took place last month in Ireland, rewarded the work of two #i3S researchers: Ana Filipa Costa (Best Poster Award) and Rafaela Abrantes (distinguished as a Rising Star in the field).
Congratulations🤩
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🌟𝗶𝟯𝗦 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀!
The award ceremony took place earlier this week and the #i3S project DeepFastCOV was distinguished in the category Norte Mais Inovador.
Many congratulations👏
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i3S researcher Mónica Sousa has earned an @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant. 🌟
Mónica and her team will uncover the mechanisms that drive spinal cord regeneration in the spiny mouse, paving the way towards new treatments for spinal cord injuries.
#ERCAdG #i3Sawards #i3Snews
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The IV 1H-TOXRUN International Congress, an event focused on toxicology research that took place in Porto last month, awarded #i3S researcher Sara Peixoto da Silva the prize for Best Oral Communication.
Congratulations👏
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🗳️𝗩𝗢𝗧𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬❗
The Mais a Norte Awards were launched this year by CCDR-N and #i3S is already very well represented in the category Norte Mais Inovador.
𝗩𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗙𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗖𝗢𝗩👉 tinyurl.com/3ys9nn27
𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄!
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Once again, a L'Oréal Medal of Honor for Women in Science makes it to #i3S: our researcher Patrícia Henriques is among the winners🤩
Congrats, Patrícia!
Congratulations are also in order to #FCUL, @icvs-uminho.bsky.social and @istecnico.bsky.social 👏
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Congratulations to the OnCare Therapeutics team on their 1st prize in the iUP25K competition. The team ( #i3S researchers Sandra Tavares and Andreia Silva, and LAQV/REQUIMTE & #FCUP researcher António Ribeiro) proposes a non-toxic alternative to #chemo.
#i3Sawards #breastcancer #cancerresearch
For University Day 2025 yesterday, several researchers and professors were granted the University of Porto's Excellence in Scientific Research Award. Among the awardees this year is #i3S researcher Paula Soares, who is also a professor at #FMUP.
Congratulations👏
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#i3S PhD student Catarina Azevedo was recently awarded a ✈️grant by the Portuguese Society of Immunology. Catarina is using T cell glycosylation to potentially enhance the efficacy of #cancer immunotherapies and, now, she'll test her approach in a lab at UBasel, Switzerland.
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Congratulations to Claudia Martins and Catarina Pereira for the Oral Communication award #CRSingapore. Great to have their work on 3D models for therapy screening recognized!
@CRSScience #i3SAwards
The #i3S group Cancer Signalling & Metabolism was very successful at the latest Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of #Endocrinology, Diabetes & #Metabolism: the work of three researchers was distinguished and was granted, in total, €22.5K👏
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Yesterday the #GileadGenese Program's award ceremony took place and two #i3S projects got the highest honor: INVEST, coordinated by Ana Sofia Ribeiro; and FibHep, led by Bruno Sarmento. Each project was granted €40K.
Congratulations!
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#UPorto PhD student at #i3S Carolina Pereira was awarded a travel grant by the journal 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮𝘴. It will cover the costs for Carolina to✈️to London in February and participate in a workshop promoted by the EU School of Haematology.
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Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro-Núcleo Regional do Norte has already appointed this year's grantees of scientific research in #oncology, and #i3S researchers secured 6 out of the 15 available 👏
Get to know the projects that seized the judges' attention👇
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#i3S researcher Margarida Saraiva studies alternative treatments to #tuberculosis, ideally shorter and relying less on #antibiotics.
This ambitious project was selected by the #CaixaResearchFundlaCaixa for its Health Research Call in 2021.
#i3Snews #i3Sawards #i3Sresearch #funding #CaixaResearch
Earlier this month, the prestigious Academy of Sciences of Lisbon nominated Claudio Sunkel, #i3S researcher and president of the Board of Directors, a corresponding member of the 5th section - Biological Sciences.
Many congratulations😃👏
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The goal is to eventually be able to accurately predict the risk of becoming diabetic, which could enable the implementation of effective prevention and treatment strategies.
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Rui Bergantim, MD and #i3S researcher, was distinguished by the Portuguese Hematology Society with its National Hematology Award 2024.
Congratulations!
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