Professor Francisco Pulido Valente Science Award 2013   “The brain: from molecules to circuits” was the topic chosen for the Professor Francisco Pulido Valente Science Award 2013, in the amount of 10,000€. Applications can be submitted until 30 September. Check the regulations here.

The Professor Francisco Pulido Valente Science Award is an initiative of the Francisco Pulido Valente Foundation [FFPV] and of the Foundation for Science and technology (FCT) and aims to “reward the best work published in a field of Biomedical Sciences (irrespective of the year of publication) that describes research conducted at a national laboratory by a researcher younger than 35 years of age”.

Each year the award honours work in a specific area of Biomedical Sciences: Neuroscience, Microbiology, Cell and Molecular Biology Applied to Medicine, Cytogenetics and Molecular Genetics, Cell and Molecular Pathology, Medical Physics and other areas deemed appropriate by the organization.

Jury:

– Coordinator: Professor Arsélio Pato de Carvalho (Neuroscience Centre of the University of Coimbra)
– Professor Nuno Sousa (ICVS, University of Minho)
– Dr. Zachary Mainen (Champalimaud Foundation)
– Professor Catarina Oliveira (CNC, University of Coimbra), representing the FCT
– Professor João Monjardino (Professor Emeritus, Imperial College London) on behalf of the Professor Francisco Pulido Valente Foundation