News # 15 | jun/jul. 2010 « News@fmul News@fmul

News # 15 | jun/jul. 2010

Editorial Note

In this summer period, which is of holidays for many people, we think that it would be important to present the University Dermatology Clinic of the Lisbon Faculty of Medicine, founded in 1956 by Professor Juvenal Esteves. Indeed, who better than the specialists to tell us how we should protect ourselves adequately, not only against the sun, but also against the allergies that often break out or get worse during this period? Besides publishing some articles in this field, we have interviewed Professor Manuel Marques-Gomes, Director of the Clinic, which has existed for over fifty years, telling us its history, […]

FMUL News

Academic Medical Center of Lisbon PhD Degree

Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon Institute of Molecular Medicine Santa Maria Hospital, Academic Medical Center Applications will be opened shortly Detailed information here and www.fm.ul.pt/CAMLPhD More information: Email

PhD and Masters Courses at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon

The enrolments to PhD and Masters Courses at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon are opened. PhD: METABOLIC DISORDERS AND EATING BEHAVIOUR NEUROSCIENCES VOICE, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION MASTERS: BIOETHICSSLEEP SCIENCES BEHAVIORAL DEPENDENCES AND ITS TREATMENTS PALLIATIVE CARE EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES METABOLIC DISORDERS AND EATING BEHAVIOUR EPIDEMIOLOGY NEUROSCIENCES NUTRITION ADOLESCENT HEALTH TECNOLOGIAS DE INTERVENÇÃO E DIAGNÓSTICO CARDIOVASCULAR VICTIMISATION OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS More information here

Dermatology Research Unit

In order to accompany the progress and development of the basic and clinical research in dermatology that has taken place over the last two decades on the international level it is fundamental to create dermatology research units in Portugal, preferably integrated within research centres of excellence. Nowadays the study of cutaneous illnesses cannot be confined to conventional clinical departments. The scope of these studies lies within translational research units, which have been determining for the success of basic and clinical research programmes and of the practical application of their results in patients’ treatment and in the improving of their quality […]

Gulbenkian “Research on the Frontier of Life Sciences” Prize

Gulbenkian “Research on the Frontier of Life Sciences” Prize distinguishes research by the Institute of Molecular Medicine on Dengue The project by the researcher Ivo Martins, from the Biomembrane Unit of the Institute of Molecular Medicine, has received the “Research on the Frontier of Life Sciences” prize from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The awards ceremony took place in the Main Auditorium of the Egas Moniz Building, where Ivo Martins presented his project “The interplay between lipid droplets, RNA and the capsid protein during dengue virus assembly and encapsidation.” The aim of the study is to understand how one of the […]

Study Grants for Merit from the University of Lisbon 2009/2010

Within the scope of the Regulation on Awarding Study Grants for Merit to Students from Higher Education Institutions, published in the Portuguese Republican Journal, 2nd Series, nº 111, of the 9th of June, through Dispatch nº 13531/2009, five study grants for merit were awarded by this institution. This regulation applies to students enrolled in a course at the University of Lisbon, and the students contemplated will: – Have achieved approval in all the curricular units that are a part of the curricular year in which they were enrolled during the year the grant is awarded; – Have an average final […]

University of Lisbon/Caixa Geral de Depósitos Prize Best Final Year Student 2007/2008 and 2008/2009

Under the Regulation for Awarding the University of Lisbon / Caixa Geral de Depósitos Prize, this is awarded to students from the University of Lisbon enrolled in initial training courses under the terms of the Cooperation Protocol celebrated on the 14th of August 2007 between the University of Lisbon and the Caixa Geral de Depósitos S.A. This prize is awarded annually to the best final year student (best average mark rounded out to decimals) from among all the first degree and integrated masters courses from all the faculties of the University of Lisbon who has finished the course between the […]

News Report / Profile

Interview with the Director of the University of Dermatology Clinic Professor Marques-Gomes

Director of the University Dermatology and Venereology Clinic June 2010 What is the origin of the University Dermatology Clinic? The Dermatology Service, integrated within the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, was started a short time after the creation of the Santa Maria Hospital, (HSM) under the direction of Professor Juvenal Esteves. At that time Professor Juvenal Esteves took the care to designate the service as the University Dermatology Clinic of Lisbon, a name which many of us still use even today. This service was created by its director in order to have three elements: the element of […]

Interview with Hortênsia Sequeira – Diagnostics Technician of the University Dermatology Clinic

What is the role/function of the Diagnostics and Therapeutics Technician in the Mycology Laboratory of the Dermatology Service? The functions of the Diagnostics and Therapeutics Technician in dermatology are basically all of those in the functional content for clinical pathology in the area of microbiology, yet as it is an area with a very specific character it requires a long period of theoretical and practical training. The Mycology Laboratory of the Dermatological Clinic of the Dermatology Service was created about fifty years ago by Professor Juvenal Esteves, then director of the service, with the aim of promoting clinical and laboratory […]

Events

Echoes of the 12th EAHIL Conference

The European Congress of Medical and Health Libraries, which was held in Portugal for the second time and was a resounding success, took place at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Estoril Congress Centre during the week of 14th to the 18th of June 2010. After four years’ work in organizing this event we finally have the pleasure of seeing our efforts rewarded through the dignifying situation of holding the 12th EAHIL conference in Portugal. This congress is considered to be the greatest European congress for specialists in documentation and information in the field of health, and about 400 professionals […]

Ceremony of Homage to Professor Arsénio Cordeiro in the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon

A session paying homage to Professor Arsénio Cordeiro was held on the 21st of June last in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. Professor Carlos Ribeiro, coordinator of the organizing committee of the homage paid by a group of former collaborators, disciples and admirers, stated that this session aimed at paying homage to “the person who had a crucial importance in the preparation of several generations of doctors”. Professor Fernandes e Fernandes, Dean of the FMUL, within the scope of the commemorations of the Centenary of the Faculty, invited several different academic and […]

University of Lisbon Dentistry Faculty Summer Party

Within the scope of the festivities of the Portuguese popular saints, which take place during the month of June throughout the whole country, the Association of Workers of the Faculty of Dentistry of the University of Lisbon (FMDUL) organized a Great Festival on the 18th of June for the whole of the University of Lisbon (UL) community. Everything was made ready for fun and good times to be requirements for one to join the party. From the carnival hoop throwing stall to the mechanical bucking bronco as fun rides, as well as the grilled sardines and pork on the spit […]

AEFML Swearing In – Mandate 2010/2011

On the 25th of June 2010 the elected Social Organs for the 2010/2011 mandate were sworn in in the premises of the Students’ Association of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. In the presence of the highest academic entities, representatives of the University of Lisbon and of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, the association leaders who took on these functions re-stated their unconditional commitment and dedication in the full representation of all the students in the dignifying of our Academy. The collaboration of the AEFML in the ceremonies commemorating the 110 Years of […]

Alcohol in “Xutos e Pontapés” at the AEFML Cycle of Talks

Zé Pedro, from the Portuguese rock group “Xutos e Pontapés”, spoke in the first person during the talk “Alcohol and Health”, accompanied by Professor Rui Tato Marinho (ex President of the Portuguese Association for the Study of the Liver and Hepatologist at Santa Maria Hospital) and by Dr Manuela Sousa, (from the “Olá Jovem” Welcome Centre). This last talk in the “Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon Students’ Association Cycle of Talks”, took place on the 2nd of June last and was dedicated to an issue that is sufficiently interesting to captivate students, doctors and the laymen, given […]

More and Better

Blood Collection Campaign at the FMUL

Following on from the blood collection campaigns that the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL) has carried out over recent years, the first blood collection campaign of 2010 was held on the 26th and 27th of May 2010, organized by the Portuguese Blood Institute (IPS). The mission of the IPS is to regulate transfusional medicine on a national level and to guarantee the availability and accessibility of safe and efficient blood and quality blood components through benevolent donations among the healthy population. The IPS also has the responsibility to develop computerised means of making the public aware […]

Think Yellow’ Campaign comes to an end

Since the month of May the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon has decided to ‘think yellow’, continuing the “think yellow” campaign by the Valorsul company, in which every twenty bottles recycled contribute 2.5 Euros to social solidarity institutions. This campaign has served to increase awareness about the fact that recycling may generate many benefits, not only for the protection of the environment but also towards helping those most in need. Therefore Valorsul is continuing with this campaign, in which you may continue to recycle at home and at work because this still helps people! Until the 30th […]

Good Practice in Waste Separation at the Egas Moniz Building (EEM)

In June, and within the scope of the developing of good practice of waste separation, the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon carried out an internal audit with AMBIMED, the service providing company, of the laboratories in the Egas Moniz Building. The intention is to continue the work that has been carried out with all its collaborators, making them aware of environmental and safety issues in the correct separation and conditioning of the waste produced. This audit made it possible to check some irregularities in relation to errors in the separating and conditioning of waste, which could easily […]

Publishing Activity in the University Dermatology Clinic

In the University Dermatology and Venereology Clinic the university vocation (research as a form of renewing knowledge; teaching as a form of transmitting and spreading knowledge; preserving as a form of keeping the evolution of the flow of knowledge clear) has always been present since its foundation, alongside the medical aid component. One of the ways of transmitting and diffusing knowledge, both in support for teaching and for technical, specifically medical, training, also being a form of a future memory of the state of knowledge at a given moment, is the production of books. Over the years in clinical practice, […]

Book of the Month

Dear Users of the CDI Library, Access the book of the month for June and July André Rodrigues CDI Library / Preservation and Conservation Nucleus andresilva@fm.ul.pt Tel.: 21 798 51 32 | Ext.: 44 172

Research and Advanced Education

Academic Examinations at the Faculty Of Medicine of The University Of Lisbon

MASTERS Emerging Infectious Diseases Thesis: “Clinical and Epidemiological Characterisation of Human Hidatidosis in the Portalegre Region of Portugal” Margarida Isabel Batista Martinho Mamede see more PhD Health Sciences and Technologies Thesis: “Deviant Behaviour Patterns in a Prison Atmosphere: Aspects of Personality, Rationality and Strategies of Subjects of the Action” Pedro Manuel Gante Peres das Neves see more

Participation by Teachers on Juries for Academic Examinations in other Institutions

Up to June 2010 PhDs Teachers: Maria Helena Regalo da Fonseca Examination: PhD – Public Health Institution: New University of Lisbon Teachers: António Alfredo Coelho Jacinto Examination: PhD – Biology Institution: University of Coimbra – Faculty of Sciences and Technology Teachers: Domingos Manuel Pinto Henrique Examination: PhD – Biology Institution: University of Coimbra – Faculty of Sciences and Technology Teachers: Ana Cristina Sampaio da Cruz Examination: PhD – Public Health Institution: New University of Lisbon Teachers: Maria Isabel Cortes do Carmo Examination: PhD – Public Health Institution: New University of Lisbon Teachers: Bruno Miguel de Carvalho e Silva Santos Examination: […]

Publications FMUL/HSM/IMM

Publications in 2010, May 1 – 24 June (includes only original articles, reviews, editorial material and letters) ISI Web of Knowledge (Databases=SCI-EXPANDED, SSCI, A&HCI, CPCI-S, CPCI-SSH, IC, CCR-EXPANDED) Branco JC, Bannwarth B, Failde I, et al. (2010), Prevalence of Fibromyalgia: A Survey in Five European Countries, SEMINARS IN ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM: 39 448-453 Disponível aqui. Acesso via ScienceDirect, para a Universidade de Lisboa Riccabona M, Avni FE, Dacher JN, et al. (2010), ESPR uroradiology task force and ESUR paediatric working group: imaging and procedural recommendations in paediatric uroradiology, part III. Minutes of the ESPR uroradiology task force minisymposium on intravenous […]

Open Space

Use of the Condom in Adolescents

The Importance of New Campaigns for the Preventions of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexually transmitted diseases are an increasing public health problem, mostly affecting young adults and adolescents. The prevalence of these infections is still high in the developing countries, but has also increased in the European countries, being estimated that there are at least 340 million new cases per year of only four of these infections: syphilis, gonorrhoea, Chlamydia and trichomoniasis. Fig_ 1 – Intercellular diplococci in neutrophiles in exuded urethral from a patient with gonorrhoeia (adapted from www.cdc.gov/) In the pandemic caused by HIV these infections are co-factors in […]

Malignant Cutaneous Melanoma – Criteria for Diagnosis and Prognosis Factors

Introduction Malignant melanoma (MM) corresponds to a malign neoplasia of melanocytes, which is resistant both to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and therefore its preferred treatment is surgical. Due to its high metastatic potential, the main aim is to diagnose and treat in the early stages of the illness. The first publication of this tumour was carried out by the French doctor René Laennec in 1806.(1) On skin, MM usually begins on the epidermis from a mutation taking place in the melanocyte found there. It is termed in situ MM when it is confined to the epidermis, here including the anexial epithelial […]

100 Years of Medicine: a Historical Perspective [1910-2010] Part III

Molecular Biology In 1944, in his book What is Life?, the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger established the foundations of molecular biology, the area of biology that characterises, isolates and manipulates the molecular components of cells and organisms (almost four decades after Bateson, in 1905, had defined genetics, the science of hereditariness and variation). These molecular components include proteins, RNA and DNA. The (double helix) structure of the molecules of the latter was discovered in 1953 by the biologist James Watson, from the USA, and by the physicists Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, from Britain, and Rosalind Franklin, also from the USA. […]

Researching Science and Health

Once again we are giving out information about on-line resources, which may be personal pages, blogs, institutional portals etc. We will grant special attention to those that are easy to use and, preferentially, free to access. A substantial part of these will be dedicated to medical sciences. Bring us your suggestions and comments! WolframAlpha It has already been stated about WolframAlpha that it may become as influential in our work as Google. It is a computational knowledge engine developed by Wolfram Research. WolframAlpha presents systematically organized information, intending to respond directly to the search questions and expressions introduced, as opposed […]

Listening to FMUL

Indicators of the University Clinic of Dermatology

– See the Hospitalar Indicators of the University Clinic of Dermatology here – See the Indicators of Scientific Activity of the University Clinic of Dermatology here

Keep in Mind

7th AstraZeneca Foundation / Faculty of Medicine UL Research Grant Competition

Applications for the 7th AstraZeneca Foundation / Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon Research Grant will take place from the 1st to the 30th of September 2010. The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL) and the AstraZeneca Foundation created this Annual Research Grant, with the aim of financing a research project in the area of health, which should be proposed to the FMUL by a recent graduate in Medicine (degree completed less than five years before the date of the application). Regulations and application forms available on: www.fm.ul.pt/Bolsa_AstraZeneca flyer Contacts: Gabinete de […]

Amadeus Dias Foundation/University of Lisbon Grants (2010/2011) – to 23rd July

The Amadeu Dias Foundation / University of Lisbon Grants for first degree cycle students (who have completed their first year) are mainly aimed at providing an incentive for the development of small studies or projects for scientific and/or technological research articulated, or not, with business activity. This year 42 grants will be awarded, with a value of €1,900. Applications are open from June 1st to July 23rd 2010. Regulations and application form here Informações e Candidaturas Divisão de Relações Externas do DepRE Reitoria da Universidade de Lisboa Alameda da Universidade 1649-004 Lisboa bolsasulfad@reitoria.ul.pt

International Research Prize in Health Sciences and Technology – 1st to 30th July

We hereby announce, for all Portuguese and foreign researchers who have completed research projects in the fields of health sciences and technologies, the launching of the 3rd edition of the CESPU INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PRIZE. Applications will be accepted between the 1st and the 30th of July 2010, and may be presented at the Research and Development Office of CESPU, CRL A (application form). For further information please consult the regulations informações queira consultar o regulation, or contact the Coordinator of the Research and Development Office Prof. Doutor Vitor Seabra vitor.seabra@iscsn.cespu.pt Tel.: 224 157 100 | Fax: 224 157 101 CESPU, […]

Final Year Graduates Painting Exhibition 08’09 – Faculty of Fine Arts of the UL – to 22nd August14 July 22 August 2010

The Exhibition of Final Year Graduates in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon 2008’09 will be inaugurated on the 13th of July at 9 pm in the Galeria Palácio Galveias. The exhibition will be open for public viewing until the 22nd of August, from Tuesday to Friday from 10 am to 7 pm and on Saturday and Sunday from 2 pm to 7 pm.

NRW Young Scientist Award 2010 – to 15th September

The NRW Research Schools were founded as an initiative of the German federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). International networks of renowned scientists,world leading supervisors and excellent scientific environments – the NRW Research Schools provide a forum for PhD candidates with superior academic track records. The International NRW Research Schools in Germany will award prizes of € 1,500 to nine young scientists for the most outstanding publication in: •Biotech-Pharma (Drug research, Stem Cells, Nanomedicine, Biotechnology) •Cell Dynamics and Disease (Biomedicine, Molecules and Cells) •Chemistry (Molecular Sciences and Solid State Materials) •Dynamic Intelligent Systems (Computer Science and Embedded Systems) •Economics (Microeconomics, […]

Da Insuficiência Cardíaca ao Tromboembolismo Pulmonar – 22 de Outubro

Vai realizar-se no dia 22 de Outubro de 2010 uma Reunião com o tema “Da Insuficiência Cardíaca ao Tromboembolismo Pulmonar” em Lisboa. Consultar o programa aqui

Matriculations and Enrolments – Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon

Calendar 2010/2011 Curricular Year Period of Matriculations/ Enrolments: 1st Year – 1st Time – Graduates September 13 to 17 2010 All years September 18 to October 3 2010 Re-entrances September 20 and 21 2010 Late Enrolments Until December 31 Erasmus October 6 to 8 2010 Consult the FMUL site regularly for up-to-date information More information about 1st year /1st time here More information about Other Years here