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✈️
#i3Sawards #i3Snews #i3Sresearch #cancerresearch
#i3S researcher Joana Peixoto was awarded a Portuguese League Against Cancer/Lions Portugal Medical Research Grant - Childhood #Cancer, worth €15K.
Congratulations👏
#i3Sawards #i3Snews #i3Sresearch #cancerresearch
#i3S researcher Salomé Pinho and her team are conducting a clinical trial to test a glycan supplement that could thwart the onset of the inflammatory process in #Crohns disease. This study is among the rare researcher-initiated #clinicaltrials in Portugal.
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#i3S researcher Joana Ferreira Gomes is exploring the brain-intestine connection and its influence on teenagers engaging in risk behaviors. Project MINDSET was awarded a €25K grant by the Biocodex Microbiota Foundation.
#i3Sresearch #i3Snews #i3Sresearch #teens
💉The FLAVIVACCINE consortium wants to tackle flavivirus by developing a #vaccine candidate against it.
Thanks to our experience with 🦟-borne diseases, immunology and RNA vaccine development, #i3S was invited to join as a "member of excellence."
#i3Sinnovation #i3Snews #i3Sresearch #collab #EUfunding
#i3S researcher Estrela Neto was featured in the Science@U.Porto newsletter. In this interview, the researcher spoke about her training and scientific trajectory, and about the challenges and advances in her research field: bone pain.
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#i3Snews #i3Sresearch #peopleofi3S #bonepain
A team from #UPorto - including #i3S researchers Patrícia Henriques and Inês Gonçalves - was granted the university’s first patent in Chile for a reusable sterilization system that eliminates microorganisms found, for example, in dialysis catheters.
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#i3Sinnovation #i3Sresearch #i3Snews #collab
A team of #i3S researchers has uncovered a mechanism that ensures a precise chromosome separation during #celldivision.
Team leader Carlos Conde and researcher Nelson Leça detail the implications of this discovery.
#i3Snews #i3Sresearch #i3Spapers #cancer #cancerresearch
A team of #i3S researchers has uncovered a mechanism that ensures a precise chromosome separation during #celldivision.
The finding can pave the way to the development of new therapies to treat faulty cell division-derived conditions, such as #cancer.
#i3Snews #i3Sresearch #i3Spapers #cancerresearch
#i3S researcher Diana Nascimento details how an intelligent🫀patch, which uses the heartbeat to improve electrical function and aid recovery after heart attacks, works. The smart device was developed by i3S, the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, and #UPorto.
#i3Snews #i3Sresearch #collab #CVD
Project PREDI-LYNCH wants to create new, more precise and less invasive methods of early #cancer detection in patients with Lynch syndrome. The consortium involves 28 partners, #i3S among them, and was granted 13,6M€ by the European Commission.
#i3Sinnovation #i3Sresearch #EUfunding #cancerresearch
#i3S researcher Bruno Sarmento leads the institute's participation in MEDiCS, a project aiming to develop a new clinical agent to fight #cancer that has just been awarded 2.5M€, of which 335K€ are headed to i3S.
#i3Sinnovation #i3Sresearch #EUfunding #cancerresearch
#i3S and CNC-UC developed an intelligent ❤️patch to be applied after myocardial infarction. It uses the heartbeat to improve the organ's electrical function and aid recovery after heart attacks; it may also pave the way to diminish the occurrence of arrhythmias.
#i3Snews #i3Sresearch #collab #CVD
ACHILLES, a newly formed EU Doctoral Network composed of 14 institutions, aims to train the next generation of hematology oncologists, which was funded with over 4M€. As a partner institution, #i3S is committed to hosting one PhD student.
#i3Snews #i3Sresearch #cancer #cancerresearch #EUfunding
New paper⬇️
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One of the latest episodes of "Sociedade Civil" focused on #liver health, on the occasion of World Liver Day, and featured a panel of experts, including #i3S researcher Perpétua Pinto do Ó.
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In 90 seconds, #i3S researcher Sandra Tavares sums up her work studying triple-negative breast #cancer, one of the most aggressive subtypes.
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#i3Snews #i3Sresearch #peopleofi3S #90segundosciencia #podcasts #cancerresearch #breastcancer
#i3S researchers Inês Gonçalves and Andreia Pereira joined a #FCUP team to lead project PyroSENSE to success. This project aims to prevent strokes by coupling stents with smart sensors able to detect biological fluctuations that precede stroke events🫀
Great work👏
#i3Snews #i3Sresearch #collab #CVD
#i3S researchers Elsa Logarinho, Fábio Ferreira and José Bessa have identified a region in the genome able to "turn on and off" some biological processes associated with #aging. These findings were published in the journal Nature Communications.
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#i3Snews #i3Sresearch #genetics #epigenetics
#i3S researcher Perpétua Pinto-do-Ó led a joint effort between i3S & Institut Pasteur that resulted in the first cellular map of fetal liver🧫 The goal is to understand how to successfully multiply blood stem cells and use them for therapeutic purposes.
Excellent work!
#i3Snews #i3Sresearch #collab
#i3S researcher Sónia Silva's work on developing new, more effective and more personalized strategies to treat breast #cancer made the pages of 📰 La Vanguardia.
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#i3Sresearch #i3Sinnovation #peopleofi3S #funding #CaixaResearchFundlaCaixa #CaixaResearch
Mesmerizing 😍
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A new study conducted by #FMUP, in #collab with #i3S, is exploring the possibility of using a known diabetes medication to treat #endometriosis and revert some of its consequences, such as #infertility. The study is still pre-clinical stages but shows great promise.
#i3Snews #i3Sresearch #UPorto
#i3S researcher Didier Cabanes details how he and his team are reducing bacteria's virulence w/o killing them, rendering them vulnerable to the host’s defenses and enhancing the effect of antibiotics while preserving the microbiota.
#i3Sresearch #i3Snews #immunity #infection #antibioticresistance
As part of the #EU project Solve-RD, #i3S researcher Carla Oliveira and her team are diagnosing 100s of people to track down diffuse gastric #cancer, a rare syndrome that is often hereditary.
#i3Snews #i3Sresearch #cancerresearch #worldcancerday
Daniel Ferreira is resorting to a stomach on a chip to study a rare syndrome, diffuse gastric #cancer. The #i3S researcher was on @90segundosciencia.bsky.social to detail the work he has been carrying out.
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#i3Snews #i3Sresearch #cancerresearch #90segundosciencia
1/🧬Throughout life, our cells divide 10 quadrillion times. During this division a cell replicates itself and 2 daughter cells emerge, each a copy of the original cell's #DNA. When this process fails, #cancer is sometimes the result.
#i3Sresearch #celldivision #CaixaResearchFundlaCaixa #CaixaResearch
#i3S researchers Gabriel Oliveira and Tânia Silva feature in a video intro in which they discuss their work and how they carried out the research featured in a paper recently published.
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#i3S researcher Flávia Castro was featured in the latest issue of the Science@U.Porto newsletter. In this interview, Flávia discusses what drew her into scientific research, current projects and the challenges the scientific community faces.
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#i3Snews #i3Sresearch #peopleofi3S #cancerresearch
#i3S researcher José Pedro Castro details what makes centenarians special and how studying them could unlock new therapies to treat aging-related conditions.
These findings were recently published in a paper on "Nature Communications".
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#i3Snews #i3Sresearch #genetics
