It is with great pleasure that we congratulate the Research Team of the Project “Myocardial Fibrosis Biomarkers in the early identification of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy” for the funding obtained in the 2013 call for SR&TD Exploratory Projects of FCT. The team is led by Professor Dulce Brito of the Cardiology I Department of CHLN and consists of the following co-researchers: Professor Hugo Madeira, Dr Mónica Pedro and Dr Doroteia Silva, Dr Gabriel Miltenberger-Miltenyi, Dr Oana Moldovan, Dr Rui Pedro Pires Nunes, and Technician Carina Calisto. The grant was awarded in the scientific field of Diagnostic, Therapeutics and Public Health […]

Researcher Maria Manuel Mota was awarded the Pessoa Prize 2013 (27th edition). A scientist at the Institute of Molecular Medicine and a renowned expert in the study of malaria, she now has her work honoured with one of the most prestigious prizes awarded in our country. The Pessoa Prize is a joint initiative of Expresso newspaper and bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos. It totals 60 thousand euros and aims to honour individuals in the fields of culture, the arts or science for prominent work done in Portugal in a given year. The panel of this edition consisted of Francisco Pinto […]

Professor Jacinto Manuel de Melo Oliveira Monteiro (Director of the Orthopaedics University Clinic of F.M.U.L | Director of the Department of Orthopaedics of C.H.L.N.) was appointed Chairman of the Shoulder and Elbow Committee worldwide by decision of the BoD of SICOT (Société Internacional de Chirugie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie). SICOT (World Orthopaedic Organization) is the oldest orthopaedic scientific society worldwide, celebrating 85 years of existence this year. This distinction is a motive for pride and a proof of the recognition enjoyed by Portuguese orthopaedics and the Lisbon Academic Medical Centre.

Project I Choose +    The Organizing Committee of the 5th AIMS Meeting The eight of November was an important milestone in the short yet distinguished history of the AIMS meeting – the anniversary of the project, which is fast approaching its 5th edition. The AIMS Meeting (Annual International Medical Students Meeting) started with the name ENJOY Med (Medical Students Annual Meeting) and since then has grown and created, each year, a renewed space for learning and science interaction and communication, in the form of a medical students congress for their peers. The Organizing Committee could simply not ignore this […]

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports Instituto de Medicina Molecular in the development of malaria vaccine Instituto de Medicina Molecular announced today that it will receive Phase II funding through Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE), an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that enables individuals worldwide to test bold ideas to address persistent health and development challenges. Miguel Prudêncio, group leader at Instituto de Medicina Molecular, and his team will continue to pursue an innovative global health research project, titled “A New Whole-Organism Vaccine Against Malaria”. “This funding is of great importance since it will enable us to […]

   The Association of Students of the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon will be hundred years old on 30 September 2014 and is now starting the celebrations of its centenary. The Opening Ceremony of the Centenary Celebrations was held on 13 November at the Aula Magna of the Faculty. Several boards of the Faculty and the University, lecturers, employees, leaders and former leaders of the association, colleagues and guests attended the symbolic session. The event was further enriched with musical performances by the AEFML Choir and the Medical Tuna of Lisbon. The centenary celebrations will have various events, such as: […]

On 14 and 15 November, 200 participants from several European countries, Canada, the United States and Brazil met at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon to discuss tobacco prevention and control at the International Conference on Tobacco Prevention and Control (ICTPC´13), an initiative organized by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon and the University of Minho. The opening ceremony was attended by the Secretary of State Assistant to the Minister of Health, Dr Fernando Leal da Costa, who received the prize “non-smoker of the year” from Professor Fernando de Pádua, member of the Conference’s […]

Seven-year history of the Annual Meeting of PhD Students. The Academic Medical Centre of Lisbon (CAML) PhD Students Annual Meeting celebrated seven years of existence in 2013. On 5 and 6 December 2013, the seventh edition was attended by students affiliated to several groups of the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM), Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (FMUL) and Santa Maria Hospital (HSM). But this has not always been the case. The history of this meeting goes back to 2007, when five bold PhD students from different IMM laboratories joined forces to bring to light the first edition […]