Our Category: Editorial Note

September always marks great beginnings and inherently brings change. It is the month we receive the students, the newcomers and those who return to their academic path. It is as if we are entering a new year, with new projects and wishes wrapped in promises. September is Faculty Day , but it was the day of so many more events.

The day when Professor Egas Moniz was honoured for the 70th anniversary of his Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology, the only one to date in Portugal.

It was also the day of the change of its own image, starting with a new, modern and more intuitive look, through a new website and a video that will be the Faculty’s  new business card for itself and for the world.

This explains why this month we have given special prominence to two of the actors in the same video. Can anyone be perfect in many things at once? Or is anyone close to attaining it? That’s what made us meet Estela Flambó and Mickael Bastikian.

And because we are a Faculty that is increasingly positioned to be in the world, we wanted to focus this month on newcomers, from everywhere, the newly arrived Erasmus students.

The world keeps spinning without even talking about the academic year.

September was also the birth month of the Evidence Based Health Institute.

Remember NOVIRUSES2BRAIN, a project that got 4 million euros funding, led by Professor Miguel Castanho? The Project started on the 1st

We have just told you about Prizes that make the institution very proud and has the bests teachers. And no, we are not exaggerating.

An outstanding top reviewer, Professor Mamede de Carvalho has been granted  two awards for his exceptional work reviewing scientific articles by the Publons Peer Review Awards 2019.

Professor Bruno Silva-Santos is back in the news, but this time he is not alone. Professors Marc Veldhoen and Leonor Saúde are also on the list of the award winners, La Caixa bank and FCT so they can continue  their research work.

Could we have had a richer month?

Probably not.

It’s good to be back in the place that makes us proud, and that’s why we all give small portions of our contribution every day.

Let this year begin, full of change, because it is what makes us advance in the world.

Good year everyone, you are very welcome!

Joana Sousa

Editorial Team

“United for Science” is the motto for this issue of our Faculty’s Newsletter and best expresses the feeling that prevails over the 30 years of GAPIC – Support Office for Scientific, Technological and Innovation Research – whose anniversary is this month!

The 30th anniversary of GAPIC is the perfect occasion to remember the promotor and mentor of this office, whose mission is to promote scientific research among the FMUL students. We’ll talk about Professor David Ferreira e and get acquainted with another side of him, besides the scientist and educator.

The celebration of this 30th anniversary fills us with happiness, but also a certain nostalgia. It’s the opportunity to relive and review all the work developed in these 30 years by GAPIC, currently coordinated by Professor Ana Espada de Sousa. To learn “The steps and moments in the path of a GAPIC Alumni” and to listen to the key stakeholders, the students, through the voice of the AEFML (Student Association).

We’re congratulating the Institute of Environmental Health – ISAMB and the CCUL – Cardiovascular Centre of the University of Lisbon for the “Very Good” rating obtained in the Assessment of R&D Units – Multi-annual Funding Program by the FCT. We’re also commending the iMM – Institute of Molecular Medicine João Lobo Antunes for its classification of “Excellent”.

We also congratulate Professor Mamede de Carvalho, Deputy Director of the FMUL, for his distinction as World Expert in Electromyography by Expertscape.

In this issue of the Newsletter dedicated to science, the Editorial Team talked to  Professor Rui Tato Marinho, FMUL doctor and professor, recently appointed President of the Portuguese Society of Gastroenterology. Interestingly, Professor Rui Tato Marinho also belonged to the GAPIC coordinating team from 2002 to 2009.

This July FMUL was visited by a delegation from the University of Macau, cto strengthen relations between the two institutions and establish future arrangements. It also hosted a number of events, including the 1st edition of the o Nutrition Laboratory Summer School; a ClinMed 2019 – SummerSchool; and the II National Congress of Clinical Communication in Health Care.

Remember that GAPIC is Just a Click Away so don’t miss the opportunities we have for you! In September, applications will open for various events: 23rd Programme “Educação pela Ciência”, “16th AstraZeneca Foundation Research Grant” and Prémio GAPIC David-Ferreira.

From our side of GAPIC… Proudly, over the last 16 years, we have grown together with and for science, by learning and sharing with colleagues, teachers, researchers and students, a joint effort where the love for our Faculty and the pleasure in our work prevails.

Let’s remain united in this path for science, trying to do more and better, because, to paraphrase a friend, “The sun always shines higher and the shade only covers where the sun doesn’t reach”.

And speaking of sun, happy holidays!

Sónia Barroso

GAPIC Adviser – Support Office for Scientific, Technological and Innovation Research

sbarroso@medicina.ulisboa.pt

Campanha Expo 98 “Venha Mergulhar no Futuro”, de Miguel Fernandes, António Antunes e José Neto

Diz o provérbio português, na tentativa de justificar que muitos são os filhos que seguem as pisadas dos pais. Geralmente com perfis profissionais semelhantes, o carimbo entre eles é certamente mais denso que apenas um gosto comum profissional, mergulhando mais a fundo, são os traços de personalidade e a genética que também questionamos. Mas estarão todos estes elementos ligados para explicar por que razão pode um peixe ser padrão dos seus antepassados?

Num mês em que damos especial atenção à última lição da Professora Maria do Céu Machado, fomos perguntar à sua filha Catarina Gouveia se ser Pediatra é uma questão de genética, ou mero acaso de uma paixão coincidente.

E o que sente o Miguel Brito Lança, aluno do 4º ano de Medicina, quando pisa os corredores de um Hospital onde o seu avô tanto caminhou, enquanto médico Internista a tentar ajudar os seus doentes?

Neste mês o cordão umbilical não é apenas o de sangue, mas une pessoas muito diferentes que têm projetos comuns.

Um mês depois da 13ª Edição do PhD Student’s Meeting pedimos a dois dos elementos da Comissão Organizadora, a Eunice e o Filipe, que nos falassem da importância de comunicar cada vez mais este Programa. A medir os índices de sucesso deste Programa Doutoral do CAML, e para nos explicar o seu mais fiel propósito, conversámos com Rui Victorino, o Professor de Medicina Interna por excelência e um dos grandes defensores que a clínica e a investigação evoluem se caminharem juntos.

É precisamente nessa ondulação da medicina com a investigação que o GAPIC promove, ano após ano, bolsas e incentiva os seus alunos a pensar fora das suas águas mais confortáveis, aprendendo a desenvolver projetos próprios, com a ajuda de mentores científicos. Este mês várias são as candidaturas que anunciamos e que ainda decorrem. Para o mês que vem é dos 30 anos do GAPIC que lhe falaremos mais a fundo.

Recentemente designado Presidente da Sociedade Portuguesa de Gastrenterologia e com essa missão para os próximos dois anos, pedimos uma reação ao nosso Professor Rui Tato Marinho, com quem teremos uma entrevista mais alargada para o próximo mês.

Não só de fígado se fala por cá, numa conversa a três, a doença de Parkinson subiu a palco no Grande Auditório da Faculdade e sob o olhar sábio de mais um dos nossos Professores, Joaquim Ferreira, abriram-se novos ângulos da doença, entre a investigadora Luísa Lopes e com o depoimento do paciente Paulo Teixeira Pinto.

Após nova tomada de posse dos Órgãos Sociais da AEFML e assumindo José Rodrigues o novo papel de Presidente, não poderíamos deixar de o conhecer e perceber que correntes segue novo cardume para o mandato 2019/2020. Por águas mais quentes e agitadas andará Sebastião Martins, aluno do 6º ano, que se desloca até à Grécia para ajudar alguns refugiados, mas também ele precisa da nossa ajuda, veja como!

Não perca ainda a parte II da História do ensino da Medicina porque é ele que explica parte dos perfis que lhe contamos aqui. O resto? Explica a ciência, ou a fórmula química, mas nunca o acaso. Porque até o acaso tem método explicativo.

Joana Sousa

Equipa Editorial

In this edition of News, students are featured as they deserve to be. FMUL not only exists for them, but also exists because of them. Our mission is to teach, educate and train, by endowing society with citizens with values and professionals with skills to change the world. It is, thus, natural for us to focus on the students, listen to them and reflect on and with them. The topic of News could not be more relevant or more timely.
Students serving on the Pedagogical Council, who are nearing the end of their term of office, and Andreia Daniel, the diligent and highly competent chairwoman of the Students’ Association, provide us with clearer insights into what it’s like to experience FMUL from the students’ perspective. Students Carolina Monteiro and Ana Rita Bello, winner of the 2019 Professor Francisco Pulido Valente Teaching Award, round out the array of students’ perspectives. Professor Susana Constantino, Professor Maria José Diógenes and I attempt to show the professors’ angle. All of us lecture to first-year students, whether in the Degree in Nutritional Science, or in the Integrated Master’s Degree in Medicine. The first year is special; the year of welcoming students and forming vital links: if well established and strengthened, the links formed with classmates, with the FMUL institution and with professors will last and will serve as a benchmark. This benchmark will be the most important heritage for the future of the professionals we train and for the future of our faculty. The way FMUL evolves and conforms to its students is something that can be learned by reading about two of our School’s assets: the Student Support Office, and the extraordinary students who are part of the Mentoring and Solvin’it Project. Above all, it’s important to know how FMUL is preparing for the future and wants to appeal to tomorrow’s top students; the assessment of Applicant’s Day in an article appearing in News is the perfect occasion for that. Also within the context of an institution that is open to the outside are two noteworthy items: the ‘For a healthy heart‘ initiative, this time at a primary school, and the protocol signed between FMUL and the Champalimaud Foundation as part of cooperation in clinical areas that could strengthen medical teaching and scientific research at both institutions.

Finally, a very important highlight: the dissemination of the 2018 Activity Report, recently submitted by FMUL’s Administration to the School Council. We cannot help but get to know ourselves (what we produce, the resources we rely on, our strengths and the opportunities of our time), and we will get to know exactly who we are only if we engage in a careful reading of this report. This is like a numbered photo album of our school and the pulse of our collective realisation.

Miguel Castanho

Full Professor at FMUL’s Biochemistry Institute, MMi Group Leader, member of FMUL’s School Council and of News@FMUL’s Editorial Board

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The first time we met was at UTIC-AC, the Coronary Intensive Care Unit, founded by Arsénio Cordeiro.

At the agreed time, we arrived 5 minutes earlier, but Professor Carlos Ribeiro was already there, half an hour in advance.

We revisited the corridors and the old rooms with him, where there are still photographs that honour its two greatest protagonists. Professors, Researchers and Cardiologists, Arsénio Cordeiro created UTIC in 1969 and Carlos Ribeiro gave continuity to his work in 1980. We speak of both with special emphasis in this April edition, which celebrates another anniversary of CICU.

50 years more mature and after introducing the most groundbreaking and visionary investments in the country, UTIC was honoured on April 5, in a meeting between peers, crossing the national and international generations of Cardiology.

This month we do not just write about the Heart Unit, we remain convinced that it is worth writing from the heart.

It’s regarding this powerful muscular organ and its prevention, through Cardiovascular Rehabilitation, that we inform you of the Iberian-American Meeting, which took place in the Aula Magna of our School. At the centre of the world, Portugal and FMUL welcomed experts from all subjects to gather, discuss and present their joint efforts.

The attentive look of the past did not take our focus from the present and what was happening in the students’ lives. In a month full of events, we witnessed the Inauguration Ceremony of the Student Members of the Pedagogical Council. We took a look at the backstage of the Cultural Gathering, Ad Æternum, which brought together about 1600 spectators. . We met Ana David and João Martins and talked about what happens on stage when two passions merge: Medicine and the expression of art.

With their feet firmly on the ground and some dreams reaching for the moon, Ana Sofia Mota and Marta Viúla Ramos were two of the 50 internationally chosen students to join an education and training programme at the European Astronaut Centre, in Germany. It was thanks to the “European Space Agency Academy” that they were able to assess human physiological systems and how they respond both on and off the Earth.

Showing attendance every year at the education events of the University of Lisbon, FMUL was in Futurália, the Education, Training and Educational Orientation Fair held at FIL, which is visited by students from grades 9 to 12. What future students want to know about us is what we tried to answer.

The Medical School puts its scientific stamp on the “Sintra Cresce Saudável“ Project, through the Nutrition Laboratory. Represented by Professor Catarina Sousa Guerreiro, the signing of the protocol established with the Municipality of Sintra took place earlier this month.

Created in 2011, resulting from a sense of social responsibility, Faculdade de Ajudar, carries a solidarity and integrative initiative every year. This activity is promoted by some FMUL personnel, as we give you the first-person report of one of its organisers.

In this month’s iMM Corner, we got to know two scientific articles: In this month’s article published in PNAS, Ana Pamplona and Bruno Silva-Santos reveal new data on the role of gamma delta T cells in the pathogenesis of cerebral malaria after a liver infection by the malaria parasite. The study developed by Tiago Rodrigues and Gonçalo Bernardes, now published in Nature Chemistry, shows a large-scale analysis using artificial intelligence models on the frequency and impact that aggregates of small molecules have on the discovery of drugs, both at the academic level and, more importantly, at the industry level. This is a partnership between the iMM and the FMUL Communication Office.

These and other topics observed from the angle of a team that strives to bring you news every month, telling stories of events and the people that make up this establishment.

We still rely on your collaboration, so send us your news to news@medicina.ulisboa.pt

Joana Sousa

Editorial Team

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Thus ends the poem, The Man and the Woman by Victor Hugo.

On the month International Women’s Day is celebrated, News no. 88 was written entirely by women, (not that we want to express a feminist position, but because it must be so, since the editorial team consists only of women). However, it’s our will that all genders feel involved in our content. After all, the 8th of March celebration is nothing more than the desire for a fairer and more balanced and egalitarian society.

Far gone are the days where women were relegated to second place in the society. Throughout the history of mankind, many women found themselves embroiled in fascinating plots to reach positions that hitherto were only sought after by men. This month’s edition starts with a set of examples of women who, throughout history, dissatisfied with their condition, fought the best they knew how, with the weapons they had.

Proof that the paradigm has been changing through the selection of interviews that we carried out:

Luisa Vaqueiro Lopes studies the Neurobiology of Ageing. She is a determined scientist who likes to mobilise ideas and people, constantly joining Science with the Clinic. Reason for which she launched a new cycle of scientific conversations, Neuroses. As a woman convinced of her role in society she told us about her research and she recalled the reasons that made her choose Portugal to work.

Patrícia Costa Reis is a paediatrician and one of the winners of the L’Oréal Prize for Women in Science. During our conversation, she told us about her passionate interest for autoimmunity.

And on the matter of feminine courage, we must mention Gabriela, who beat Burkitt Lymphoma with which she was diagnosed at the age of 25. Gabriela Fonseca has proven to be a determined woman: Not only did she beat the disease but she continues to help other women with cancer through photography.

The Honorary Doctorate was awarded to the Professor Pekka Puska, a Finnish epidemiologist, who was responsible for the Northern Karelia Project and was awarded the title by the Rector of the University of Lisbon at the Aula Magna of the Faculty. The Professor was also invited to a Conference on Health Story of North Karelia and Finland – Implications for Global Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Policy, in which he presented his Project, which resulted in an 80% decrease in premature mortality from heart disease in the working age population in Finland.

In an exclusive interview with the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte(CHULN), we showed the side of the man that you don’t get to see every day. Carlos Neves Martins’ timeline.

At the biggest event ever, the AIMS comes to an end with its 10th edition. An assessment done and reviewed with the general Coordinator, Diogo Ferreira.

The University of Lisbon / Caixa Geral de Depósitos 2018 Scientific Awards were also given, whose results are already known. This year’s awards go to Professors Miguel Castanho, Luís Graça and João Guerra da Costa.

It’s the biggest university race in the country and it will be taking place for the 6th time. The Corrida Saúde Mais Solidária [Race for a more Solidary Health] is also the best way to start running for a cause. Do you already know whom you’re going to help?

FMUL was represented in the 12th Edition of the Education, Training, Youth and Employment Fair – Qualifica, in Porto. The event took place between February 28th and March 3rd and had the objective of clarifying future medical students about their academic career.

Last but not least, March 2019 marks the start of the iMM Corner, the new column of the FMUL Newsletter that intends to bring to the reader the latest research, projects and initiatives developed by iMM scientists. We thus seek to further strengthen the links between partner institutions and to disseminate within our community some recently published scientific articles. This is a partnership between the iMM and the FMUL Communication Office..

Isabel C. Varela

Editorial Team

This 80th edition of the Newsletter is focused on subjects related to the Faculty, some of which, due to their comprehensive nature, concern civil society as a whole.

We announce, first of all, the re-election of the Director of the Faculty of Medicine, Professor Fausto Pinto, publishing also the Management Report for the three-year period which has now ended (2015-2018).

We mention the presentation of the João Lobo Antunes Fund, which, as the iMM Management explains, was “created with the aim of attracting and retaining the best and brightest scientists in Portugal, supported by the excellent infrastructures of the iMM, competitive at the highest international level, and focused on improving human health.”

We also talk about the discovery of a new gene associated with the development of Parkinson’s disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies, a research investigation coordinated by Professor Leonor Correia Guedes in the Laboratory managed by Professor Joaquim Ferreira.

We take stock of the PhD Meeting Students, in an interview with members of the organisation. Also, with respect to the Meeting, we interviewed Professor Suzana Herculano, who was the main speaker at the event.

We continued our series of interviews, with which we have come to know the people who give shape and content to this institution, as well as their activities and projects. In this issue, we bring you interviews with Professor Ana Almeida and Professor Martins e Silva, former director of the FMUL.

We also present a multidisciplinary team with two years of existence, whose work intends to evaluate the benefits of physical activity in people with vascular cognitive impairment – AFIVASC. This is yet another noteworthy project in which the Faculty is involved!

Thus we present FMUL, inside and out.

Enjoy your readings and, if that’s the case, enjoy your holidays!

André Rodrigues

Editorial Team

andresilva@medicina.ulisboa.pt

Neuroscience is the theme of Issue 77 of the Newsletter. This is where, for many, the greatest challenges to human knowledge and science lie today. It has been, for a long time, a field of medical sciences cherished by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. Some of the most prominent names in this field, such as António Caetano de Abreu Freire de Egas Moniz (who graduated in Coimbra and then moved to Lisbon as Professor), Pedro Almeida Lima, João Alfredo Lobo Antunes and, later, Antonio Damásio or João Lobo Antunes, just to mention a few, attended this faculty. Their international renown is also that of the FMUL where, today as in the past, we continue to find people who stand out in this field.

It is in this context, and taking into account the purpose of the Newsletter – which is to inform its readers about the research, teaching and clinical practice developed in this faculty – that in this edition we publish interviews with José Ferro, Full Professor and Director of the University Clinic of Neurology of the Faculty, with Lia Neto, Neuroradiologist, Professor and Researcher, and Maria José Diógenes, a Faculty Professor who has recently been distinguished with the Santa Casa Neuroscience Prize. Also, within this scope, we publish an article on the work carried out by the neurosurgeon Cláudia Faria.

In this edition, we also mention the presence of the Faculty in Futurália, the iMM-Biobank, its objectives, its protagonists and the work that is being developed there, and also the work developed by Professor Sérgio Dias, in an article about his research work, which demonstrates how high levels of cholesterol decrease the immune system’s ability to kill cancer cells.

We also mention the heartfelt tribute paid by the FMUL to Professor Carlota Saldanha and, last but not least, as first article of our new section, From this side, which aims precisely at disseminating the work and activities pursued by non-teaching staff, the Newsletter gives an account of the launch of a book by our dear colleague, who is now retired, Manuela Ajuda Nunes, also known as Mané, entitled Um Nariz Comprido [A Long Nose], which clearly shows why so many colleagues, professors and students still remember her.

Happy reading,

André Rodrigues

andresilva@medicina.ulisboa.pt

The 76th edition of news@FMUL, which visits the world of Neurosciences, brings us several interviews with some of the most noteworthy names in scientific research in Portugal. They are professors, researchers from our institution, and so we went to chat with them.

Hearing our scientists and professors gives us the chance to get to learn more about the universe of scientific research in this country and the way it is interconnected with certain sectors of society. To learn more about what is being done, how it’s being done, and, in the opinion of these players, what can be improved.

The interviews with Ana Sebastião,  Bruno Miranda, Maria do Carmo Fonseca and Miguel Castanho, give us precisely that, while cluing us in on how they see the world, without leaving out what are often deeply personal experiences. We also use these interviews as a way of raising awareness of our academic community and its research works.

Today, the media has returned to an age-old topic that remains as relevant as ever: the possibility of lessening or even stemming the  effects of ageing on human beings. All this because of one of the research projects developed at the Laboratory run by Professor Carmo Fonseca, the touchstone of an interview that brings her together with Bruno de Jesus.

The article Social Cognition and the Laboratory run by Diana Prata focuses on another study we would like you to learn about, which deals with a hormone in our brain that can enhance social relations. The article we have published allows us to find out more about it.

The FMUL’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Office launched SynerGIEs a news cycle focusing on the latest in innovation and entrepreneurship, and News@FMUL keeps abreast of this project while raising everyone’s awareness of it.

Happy reading.

André Rodrigues

andresilva@medicina.ulisboa.pt

January is often the month in which we plan to make changes. It is the month used as a starting point to put plans into practice and to set goals.

Our Newsletter has new features and relies on a team committed to providing information about what we do, but above all, to spreading the sense of belonging we should all have and feel.

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, together with the Institute of Molecular Medicine and the Lisboa Norte Hospital Centre and keeping with the spirit of the CAML, has the best professionals in the scientific area, as well as demanding students, who are willing to reach the same excellent quality standards. These people have a face and a career, which needs to be shared to inspire others and make them feel proud.

That is why we decided to give our Newsletter a different theme each month, gradually trying to reach the various agents and sectors that make up this institution.

Given that Scientific Research is one of the growth pillars of advanced countries and given that in this range of researchers and doctors, there are many names from this institution, we decided to show our country’s greatest achievements in the field of Research, namely the ones related to our institution.

Bruno Silva Santos, Vice-President of the iMM and Professor of Immunology at our Faculty, has found that, by injecting millions of white blood cells of a special type – T lymphocytes –, it was possible to slow down leukaemia in animal models.

Another group of researchers, coordinated by the Professor of Oncobiology and President of the iMM Carmo Fonseca and by Bruno de Jesus, have discovered a genethat reverses the ageing process.

Research is always on the agenda when the GAPIC honours the best students presenting theses in Scientific fields. The student Diogo Maia e Silva has raised the bar a few notches, defending his thesis on intra-tumour heterogeneity and receiving the GAPIC David-Ferreira award.

But since I’m talking about targets to be achieved, the Activity Plan, already available for 2018, is worth a read.

The loneliness and frustration of not always being the best student, can cause emotional problems. Espaço S, a project strongly supported by the Faculty, was designed thinking about these students who need answers.

Following the publication of a law prohibiting the sale of sweets at public health facilities, the Newsletter team spoke with Professor and Endocrinologist Isabel do Carmo and Psychiatrist at the Santa Maria Hospital, Manuel de Carvalho, to find out more about the sweetest enemy in the world.

Did you find reasons to read what our team has prepared for you this month?

And did you realise that they are all from our institution? This institution is also yours.

These are good reasons for you to feel proud and willing to keep following us.

I wish you all a Fantastic, Healthy and Scientific 2018.

Fausto J. Pinto

Director of FMUL

A certain historical tradition traces the figure of Santa Claus to Saint Nicholas, the Greek bishop of the 4th century, probably from Mira in present-day Turkey. Having in the meantime absorbed a number of influences from pagan mythology, still in the old continent, it was in the United States, and as a result of the work of several commercial companies, especially Coca-Cola, that Santa Claus acquired his current features. It is to him that at this time of the year children from the whole world send letters in numbers that are difficult to imagine.

In this Newsletter, at the end of this year and embracing the challenges that 2018 will not fail to bring, we have a renewed team committed to bringing relevant and judicious information to a very broad and scattered academic community. Within this community, and so that we can reach more people, we renew to our readers the request to send us corrections and suggestions for improvement.

In this 74th edition, we highlight the second part of the interview with Professor Fernandes and Fernandes, which is included in a new section called Memory Trail, through which we will propose, at each edition, that you revisit some moments of our past that give us identity.

We also highlight the news of the prize awarded by the Portuguese Society of Microbiology to Professor José Melo Cristino, Full Professor of the Faculty of Medicine.

Researcher and professor Pedro Simas gave an interesting interview to the Newsletter, telling us about viruses that can help mankind on the path to discovery.

Taking advantage of the opportunity offered by the end of her term in the FMUL Pedagogical Council, Newsletter talked to Professor Isabel Pavão Martins, an interview whose reading we recommend.

The article about Luísa Figueiredo, the scientist who is making it difficult for the tsetse fly to sleep is also noteworthy, as well as the news about the awards in the field of neurosciences that honoured lecturers from the Faculty of Medicine.

The Newsletter Editorial Team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

A Equipa Editorial da Newsletter deseja-lhe Boas Festas e um Feliz Ano Novo,

André Rodrigues

Equipa Editorial

andresilva@medicina.ulisboa.pt