Professor Fausto Pinto, Full Professor of Cardiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, and Director of Cardiology Unit at North Lisbon Hospital Centre (CHLN), took over as President of the European Cardiology Society on 2 September 2014 during the Annual Congress of the General Assembly of the ECS, which took place in Barcelona and was attended by 30 000 participants. The choice of a Portuguese, or even Iberian, candidate for the highest post in the ECS is unprecedented.   During the Annual Congress of the General Assembly of the ECS Professor Fausto Pinto’s programme, which was up against […]

«The University of Lisbon (ULisboa) was ranked among the 250 the best world universities in the recently published Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2014 of the University of Jiaotong in Shanghai, China. (…) In the words of the Chancellor of ULisboa, Professor António Cruz Serra, ULisboa “occupies a very prestigious position in the Shanghai ranking, the leading and most authoritative league table of world universities. It is the first Portuguese university to be ranked in 200th range position on the global level”. He added that Ulisboa is among the 80 best European colleges. The “excellent rank” of ULisboa in […]

                  The American Clinical Neurophysiology Society distinguished Professor Mamede de Carvalho, MD, Director of the FMUL Physiology University Clinic and researcher at the Molecular Medicine Institute, with the Robert S. Schwab Award. The American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, founded in 1946, is devoted to promoting professional excellence in clinical neurophysiology and to strengthening the understanding of the central and peripheral nervous system in health and disease. This award, which is presented annually for an individual’s outstanding contributions to clinical neurophysiology, was for the first time granted to a Portuguese researcher. Since 1997 most […]

    The team of Doctor Henrique Veiga-Fernandes makes a revolutionary discovery on bone marrow stem stells       The team of researchers led by Professor Henrique Veiga-Fernandes, from the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, has discovered a new mechanism which controls the survival, expansion and function of bone marrow stem cells. Haematopoietic stem cells (HSC) give origin to all blood cells. The transplantation of these cells has been extensively used in treating various diseases, with bone marrow, umbilical cord blood and peripheral blood progenitor cells as their main source. However, […]

An international team of scientists, led by Portuguese researcher Tiago Fleming Outeiro, has established that two proteins associated with Parkinson’s diseaseinteract and react to genetic mutations. The discovery may be a “key” that could open the door to new possibilities of treatment for the disease. The proteins in question are DJ-1 and alfa-synuclein. It is known that modifications in the genes encoding these two proteins are responsible for common types of Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative pathology of the nervous system which manifests itself through tremours, stiffness, instability of posture and walking abnormalities. “Our study has demonstrated that […]

An article presenting the results of three years investigation carried out by a team of researchers at the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon was published recently in the scientific journal “Oncogene”. Using a pharmacological composition, the team discovered how to slow down the evolution of a form of leukaemia frequently found in children. This discovery could lead to the development of an alternative treatment for this form of cancer that is potentially “less noxious” to patients than the existing one. “We found that patients with acute lymphoblastic T-cell leukaemia, which is a very […]

On completing his mandate as President of the Dr. Ricardo Jorge National Health Institute on 31st July 2014, Professor José Pereira Miguel was publically recognised for his services with Public Commendation 454/2014. D.R. n.º 164, Series II, 2014-08-27, accessible through the following hyperlink. Louvor n.º 454/2014. D.R. n.º 164, Série II de 2014-08-27. Professor Pereira Miguel has enjoyed a notable academic career and is currently the Director of the Institute of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, as well as holding diverse positions on the Integrated Master’s Program in Medicine. Among other responsibilities, he coordinates Module III.II and Common Core IV, […]

Professor José Pereira Miguel as the signatory of an article “Ebola: an open letter to European governments” 26 of September saw the publication an article “Ebola: an open letter to European governments” on the website of the magazine “The Lancet”, whose signatories are 44 experts in the area of public health, among them professor José Martín-Moreno, Invited Guest Professor of FMUL, as well as professor José Pereira Miguel, the director of the Institute of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, and the Institute of Environmental Health, both FMUL institutes. More information here.