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News # 86 | Jan. 2019

Editorial Note

Beginnings that mark the start or point to the end

Where do we begin? That’s what we ask ourselves in this editorial note intended to say that we chose beginnings as the topic for this month’s edition. January, the first month of the year, was also what encouraged us and made us look for some topics and ask specific questions. What is the exact moment when life begins, that is what we asked Professor Diogo Ayres de Campos, appointed last January 1st as Director of the Obstetrics Department of the Lisboa Norte Hospital Centre (CHLN). From a new era that is now beginning in Obstetrics, another one existed to explain […]

FMUL News

New Year, New Challenges – 2019 FMUL Activity Plan

We are starting a new year and ahead of us we have new goals and challenges portrayed in the FMUL Activity Plan for 2019, unanimously approved by the School Council, last November 29th. We believe that the strategic and operational objectives defined for 2019 and aligned with the main guidelines issued by ULisboa will allow placing the FMUL in a competitive position at the national and international level. The strategy to achieve this goal requires our school to provide a quality education, combined with excellent research and a practice of medicine at the highest level of scientific and technological development, […]

FMUL positions itself as one of the founders of the Collaborative Laboratory

On January 15, 2019, the constitution of the VectorB2B– Drug Developing– Association for the Research in Biotechnology was signed. Vector B2B was a result of a shared initiative between seven entities and coordinated by Biotecnologia TechnoPhage. The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon is one of the founding members of this Collaborative Laboratory, and the only medical school to collaborate in such a project. The remaining participating entities are the companies Medinfar and BEVAG, the Faculty of Pharmacy and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Lisbon and the University of Coimbra through CNC.IBILI. The Collaborative […]

News Report / Profile

Diogo Ayres de Campos – Two major beginnings

Despite working in the Hospital for two years, the room where he sits, between two tight desks, is temporary. On the table, which seems too small perhaps because it is crammed, there are two computers and important papers, one of which is a plan of what is intended to become the new Delivery Ward of the Santa Maria Hospital. It mathematically organizes each subject without apparent additional aids, knows its agenda down to the last detail and is always available to squeeze in one more subject. Two days after I first contacted him, he welcomed me to talk about his […]

Mamede de Carvalho – good humour at the service of life

When we hear him talk, we wouldn’t tell that he was born in Rio de Janeiro and only later moved to Brasília, where he lived until he was 13, living in Lisbon between ages 7 and 10, before returning to Portugal for good. So many years later there is no trace of the accent from Rio de Janeiro, however, a few typical expressions give him away. His father, a Chef in two of the best hotels in Brazil, was in charge of serving some of the best meals to important historic governmental figures of the world and Brazil: Henry Kissinger, […]

Events

“New Year’s lunch with the staff of @medicina_lisboa”

As Prof. Fausto Pinto said in his post on Twitter, on January 4, the Egas Moniz Building witnessed an event that is “already a tradition”, “ the New Year’s lunch with the staff of @medicina_lisboa. The event started at 12h30, in the João Lobo Antunes Auditorium, where the Director of the Faculty had the opportunity to thank all the collaborators of the Faculty for their determination and dedication, referring how important it is to “wear the faculty’s shirt “, since we are responsible for supporting training of the next generation of doctors. 2018 is overall seen as a positive year, […]

Professor Fausto J. Pinto recognised by the American College of Cardiology with the International Service Award 2019

Professor Fausto J. Pinto was given the International Service Award 2019 by the American College of Cardiology (ACC), in honour of his professional contributions in the cardiovascular area. Fausto Pinto will be given the award during the ACC Convocation, Inauguration and Awards Ceremony, which is taking place on 11th of March during the 60th Annual Scientific Meeting of ACC, in New Orleans, USA. “The dedication of Dr. Pinto to improve cardiovascular health and medical care is the proof of his experience and professionalism” – says C. Michael Valentine, President of ACC. “For me, it is an honour to give him […]

New Frontiers in Cardiology – Focus on CTO

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon received on the 10th and 11th of January many famous speakers to talk during the New Boarders in Cardiology, from the perspective of CTO (Chronic Total Occlusion). An event attended by Professor Fausto J. Pinto as chairman, as well as co-chairman, Dr. Pedro Canas da Silva and the director of education Dr. Pedro Pinto Cardoso. This international course brought together around 140 participants and it aimed to gather experiences of some of the most esteemed cardiologists, with views of the youngest professionals that come together now. Clinical discussions about patients, practical […]

FMUL Celebrates Research Day

The FMUL community got together once again to celebrate Research Day (7th edition), organised by the GAPIC and the AEFML under the “Join the Party” motto, and aimed at connecting, mobilising and energising more than 500 students who have developed more than 400 research projects throughout the 21 editions of the “Education for Science” Program, as well as the mentors who accompanied them and the teams from the centres. At the Opening Session, in addition to Professor Ana Espada de Sousa coordinator of the GAPIC, Professor Mamede de Carvalho, Deputy Director of the FMUL, Professor J. Eurico da Fonseca, Vice-President […]

Professora Isabel Pavão Martins lidera discussão no Live Broadcast Migraine Science Day 2.0

O Live Broadcast, que esteve vinculado ao tema Across the Entire Migraine Spectrum, teve lugar no dia 25 de Janeiro, no Pavilhão do Conhecimento, em Lisboa. Esta iniciativa, organizada pela Novartis, reuniu 4 países com realidades e sistemas de saúde distintos, falamos da Argentina, Brasil, Suíça e Portugal. Em Portugal, numa ótica de teleconferência, foi possível fomentar a discussão em torno do tratamento da enxaqueca e das novas opções terapêuticas, tendo como Chair a Professora Doutora Isabel Pavão Martins da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, que assumiu o encontro como um “Evento educacional, que pretende divulgar a informação […]

More and Better

Featured Topics…Hepatitis C

Another book in the series “Featured Topics” was published, this time focusing on hepatitis C – “Featured Topics…Hepatitis C,” coordinated by Francisco Antunes and Fernando Maltez from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. The chapters “Epidemiology of Hepatitis C,” “Screening and Diagnosing Hepatitis C,” “Treating and Monitoring Hepatitis C,” and “Advances and Limitations in the Treatment of Hepatitis C” were written by Alexandra Martins, from the Gastroenterology Department of Prof. Dr. Fernando da Fonseca Hospital, EPE; Fernando Maltez, from the Infectious Disease Department of Curry Cabral Hospital – Lisboa Central University Hospital Centre and Faculty of Medicine […]

Featured Topics…HIV – Ageing and Comorbidities [Module 2]

Module 2 of “Featured Topics…HIV – Ageing and Comorbidities,” a book coordinated by Francisco Antunes and Fernando Maltez, from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, has been published. Module 2 focuses on kidney and bone comorbidities, neoplasms not associated with AIDS and co-infections by the hepatitis B and C viruses. The authors are Francisco Antunes, from the Institute for Environmental Health of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon; Fernando Maltez, from the Infectious Disease Department of Curry Cabral Hospital – Lisboa Central University Hospital Centre and professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the […]

Promotion of Healthy Lifestyles in an Educational Context – A synergy between local authorities and the academic community

Sintra Cresce Saudável Project Within the scope of the principles of health promotion and health education, schools are regarded as key players. The principles of health-promoting schools are based on the Ottawa Charter (WHO, 1986) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). Therefore, schools play a key role in the development of behaviours that promote a healthy lifestyle, which include nutrition and physical activity. The school is where children spend most of their day and where they eat at least three meals every day. Childhood is when we can achieve better results with regard to the development […]

Mentoring 2.0

O Mentoring 2.0 fechou as inscrições para a sua experiência piloto, com 87 mentorandos e com 44 mentores (inscrições a decorrer continuamente), os primeiros emparelhamentos mentor-mentorando já estão feitos e irão existir mais novidades em breve e que serão divulgadas nas Job Talks. Curiosamente, existem mentores com formação não só da FMUL mas também da Universidade de Coimbra e Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Research and Advanced Education

Bruno Silva Santos on the CRISPR technique

On the morning of January 4, in the section “Brave New World” uma peça que contou com a participação do Professor Bruno Silva Santos. SIC Notícias broadcast a news piece that featured Professor Bruno Santos Silva. In this newspiece, Bruno Silva Santos says that, in his opinion, one of the major events of 2018 was the recognition of immunotherapy as a tool in the fight against cancer, through the award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine to the researchers James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo. As for the CRISPR technique, Bruno Santos Silva explains that it is a […]

Bruno Silva Santos knows the secret of the Delta Gamma T cells

Bruno Silva Santos, Group Leader at the iMM and Professor at the FMUL, reveals in an interview to Observador the latest discovery of his research team. In collaboration with fellow researcher Adrian Hayday of the Francis Crick Institute and CEO of the GammaDelta Therapeutics Company, they have discovered the possibility of fighting cancer with immunotherapeutic cells. This is an innovative technique that consists of collecting Delta Gamma T Cells from a blood sample from a donor, multiplying them and introducing them into the patient’s immune system. This typology has its very own characteristic. According to Bruno Silva Santos, Delta Gamma […]

GAPIC Alumni, a Growing Network

On Research Day, the GAPIC gathered alumni who throughout the 21 editions of the “Education for Science” program developed more than 400 research projects, as well as the mentors who accompanied them and the research teams of the units that welcomed them. On this day, at the Research Paths – GAPIC Alumni, session, three GAPIC alumni talked about their projects and the importance of the GAPIC experience in their academic and professional career, especially as researchers. Bruno Miranda, Neurology intern at the Santa Maria Hospital and João Lobo Antunes (2017), Award gave us his testimony: “A successful academic career needs […]

East and West hand in hand in the name of Science – report by Bruno Silva Santos

Six Group leaders of the iMM visited the University of Guangzhou’s Jinan (Guangzhou, China), invited by Zhinan Yin, Professor and Researcher of Immunology. Besides attending a Conference, the meeting also served to establish programs of academic cooperation between teams and future projects. This meeting in the East followed a visit by the Chinese host Zhinan Yin and the rector of the University of Jinan last year. After visiting several European countries searching for partners for academical cooperation they came to the iMM. Specialised in Immunology, just like Bruno Silva Santos, Zhinan Yin, he decided to contact him and challenge the […]

Publicações Científicas (FMUL/HSM/IMM) dezembro 2018 – janeiro 2019

A Newsletter pretende, neste espaço, dar aos seus leitores uma perspectiva da produção científica realizada no Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa, que inclui a Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, o Hospital de Santa Maria e o Instituto de Medicina Molecular. Para aceder ao texto integral dos artigos, deverá estar conectado à rede da FMUL. As bases de dados utilizadas foram a Pubmed e a Web of Science. Abrir o documento em PDF. André Rodrigues Área de Biblioteca e Informação andresilva@medicina.ulisboa.pt

Protocols

FMUL medical students can now study in Rio de Janeiro

The Faculties of Medicine of the University of Lisbon and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro open their doors to a two-way curricular exchange. “Currently we are ready to take this step towards curricular exchange, the students can include a semester or a whole year in Rio de Janeiro as part of their course. And they can do it as early as February this year”, confirms Professor Joaquim Ferreira, President of the Pedagogical Board. Those who decide to cross the Atlantic need to know that they cannot count on funding, as in the case of the Erasmus programme, implemented […]

Listening to FMUL

Research Day through the students’ eyes

It is the objective of the FMUL to stimulate the practice of scientific research early on, as it is a partner of choice for clinical activity, promoting the interrogative spirit and critical thinking capabilities inherent in good medical practice. In this regard, several initiatives are developed for students, among which Research Day, organised annually by the GAPIC and the AEFML. This event is a unique opportunity to get to know the opinion of the participants, particularly the students, in order to improve future initiatives. In this sense, a questionnaire survey was carried out, to which 78 participants replied, corresponding to […]

From the Past to the Present

School of Viral Hepatitis – Talking about the Liver

This text doesn’t want to make history, but rather relate a few facts we experienced first-hand that led to and followed several disruptive innovations in the field of Medicine, Hepatology, Immunology, Virology, Oncology and Molecular biology. Some facts and figures. Chronic liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma are the seventh most common cause of death in Europe, eighth in Portugal. Viral hepatitides are the seventh cause of death in the World. Hepatitis B and C are oncogenic viruses, currently affecting around 330 million around the world. In Portugal, chronic liver disease is the fifth cause of early death. The risk of […]

Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department of the Santa Maria Hospital

Brief note The implementation of the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department in the Santa Maria Hospital, previously known as Lisbon Teaching Hospital, occurred soon after its inauguration on December 8, 1954. It was one of first departments to be integrated into the new building. The goal of the creation of this Department was to support education in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon which until then worked in the Magalhães Coutinho Maternity, located at the end of the North-West wing of the building, namely on Floors 4,5, and 6, the latter of […]

Domenico Vandelli’s Dictionary of Natural History

VANDELLI, Domenico, ca. 1730-1816 Diccionario dos termos technicos de História Natural: extrahidos das obras de Linneo, com a sua explicação…: e a Memoria sobre a utilidade dos jardins botanicos… / Domingos Vandelli. – Coimbra: Na Real Oficina da Universidade, 1788. – VI, 304 p. + 21 est.; 21 cm Library Reference Number-CDI da FML: RES. 306 In the 18th century, the reformist intentions of the Marquis of Pombal brought to Portugal a considerable number of foreign professors, including Vandelli, who came from Padua. Appointed as professor of Natural History and Chemistry at the University of Coimbra and an active member […]

Keep in Mind

Job Talks – à conversa com

Tools For Innovation in Health – Come and break some new ground with us!

The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Office of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (GIE) aims at raising awareness, inform and enable the community FMUL and also ULisboa for topics related to innovation and entrepreneurship. With these goals in mind the GIE created a series of 6 workshops called “Tools for Innovation in Health” which aim to provide useful and current tools for those interested, whether for those who already have ideas they want to develop or for those who wish to learn about these subjects and don’t know where to start. The 6 workshops were created in order for […]

Mova-se por Amor

A Love Run é uma corrida que não acontece pela primeira vez e pretende juntar os casais e fazê-los chegar à meta. A correr, durante 6 kms, ou numa caminhada apaixonada de 3 kms, a regra para vencerem é que devem chegar juntos. Com o apoio da Universidade de Lisboa, os atletas partem do Estádio Universitário e cruzam a meta no mesmo local. Mas fique a saber que os solteiros não estão excluídos e podem participar também. E por estarmos em fevereiro, quem sabe não corra atrás de um novo amor. Pelo sim pelo não participe, é dia 16 de […]

Não falte à inauguração da Aula Magna

E se estivesse ao seu alcance salvar a vida de alguém?

Para continuar a permitir que os investigadores possam desenvolver estudos sobre determinadas doenças, é preciso que comparem em laboratório perfis com doenças, com os saudáveis. Para tal dirigem-se ao Biobanco onde estão concentradas milhares de amostras de sangue. Essas amostras dos perfis saudáveis estão a começar a faltar por não haver renovação suficiente de dadores. A forma como se pode contornar o problema é muito simples e está nas suas mãos. Basta dar sangue, com dois tubos de análises clínicas. O Biobanco estará no Anfiteatro João Cid dos Santos, no dia 7 de fevereiro, entre as 09h30 e as 13h, […]

Novas Fronteiras da Cardiologia

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Obituary

Falecimento Dr. Luís Filipe Diniz Cabral Caldeira

Dr. Luís Filipe Diniz Cabral Caldeira 1956-2019 A Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa e todos os seus colaboradores, apresentam os sentidos pêsames à família e amigos do Diretor do Serviço de Doenças Infeciosas do Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Dr. Luís Filipe Diniz Cabral Caldeira, cujo falecimento ocorreu dia 29 de janeiro de 2019. O Dr. Luís Caldeira, Docente convidado da FMUL, exerceu funções no Serviço de Doenças Infeciosas do CHULN desde Julho de 1991 até à presente data, sendo Diretor do Serviço, desde Outubro de 2014.

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