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News # 75 | jan. 2018

Editorial Note

Novo ano e mais Investigação

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 […]

FMUL News

Cooperation between the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon and the Faculty of Medicine of Eduardo Mondlane University

In the context of the collaboration protocol with the Faculty of Medicine of Eduardo Mondlane University and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, six students from that School will do a clinical practice internship in Medicine and Surgery at the Medicine I University Clinic (Professor Ducla Soares), at the Medicine II University Clinic (Professor Rui Victorino) and in the Department of General Surgery (Dr. João Coutinho), during the month of January. The students, accompanied by Professor Francisco Antunes, were received by the Director of the Faculty, Professor Fausto Pinto, who welcomed them, praising the excellent climate of […]

FMUL Activity Plan | 2018

The FMUL Activity Plan for 2018, approved by the School Board on January 11, confines itself to the remaining 6 months of the current term of office and naturally reflects the continuity of the work developed since 2015, in order to allow completing the implementation of the Programme based on which we were elected. In order to pursue the FMUL’s mission, in line with the objectives set for the University of Lisbon, we propose the following strategic objectives for the first half of 2018 : Ensure the quality of FMUL’s Pre- and Post-graduate Education; Promote Scientific Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Foster […]

News Report / Profile

Bruno Silva Santos – The Researcher Who Turns T Lymphocytes into Poetry

He is a host par excellence: wherever he goes, he talks to and knows everyone. A Scorpio and a natural-born leader, he says he never had the profile to be a follower. In his school days, he took on the role of class representative and enjoyed being at the battlefront. Passionate about risk and known for his courageous capacity for initiative, he is faithfully followed by 22 people in his lab at the iMM. He is the Vice-President of the iMM, an award-winning researcher and Professor of Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. His name […]

Events

63rd Anniversary of Santa Maria Hospital

On December 8, Santa Maria Hospital celebrated its 63rd anniversary. On this day, the HSM professionals who passed away in 2017 and those who celebrated their 25 years of service to this University Hospital were not forgotten. In this ceremony, the FMUL was represented by Professor Ana Sebastião, in her capacity as Deputy Director, who said it was “a great joy to be able to share this moment of celebration with the professionals who work at the institution, considering that, as a Faculty, we are one of your strongest partners in the most varied institutional dimensions.” You […]

Launch of the Handbook on AIDS

The 5th edition of the Handbook on AIDS was launched on 25 January 2018, during the 11th Updating Workshop on Infectious Diseases, at Curry Cabral Hospital. The authors of the work are Professors Francisco Antunes and Fernando Maltez, of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. It has a preface by Professor Maria Odette Santos Ferreira, the former President of the National Commission Against AIDS and, out of the 27 authors, 13 are affiliated to the Lisbon Academic Medical Centre. This edition reviews and updates the most relevant topics related to HIV infection and AIDS, with regard to […]

More and Better

E-book Health in Winter helps prevent influenza

The SNS + Proximidade initiative launched, on the first day of Winter, the new e-book of the NHS Health Literacy Collection, dedicated to Health in Winter. Discover the book here. Source: Directorate-General for Health and Ministry of Science websites

Heart and Vessels Department of the Lisboa Norte Hospital Center announces extension works

The Director of FMUL, who is also the Director of the Cardiology Department of the Lisboa Norte Hospital Center and, for a year now, head of Heart and Vessels Department, Professor Fausto Pinto, has told Just News that the renovation and extension works will allow “(…) addressing the current challenges in the cardiovascular field with modernity, innovation and a greater response capacity”. Read the full article on Just News here. Source and Image: Just News

Seasonal Health Contingency Plan: 2017-2018 Winter Module

The Regional Health Administration of Lisbon and Tagus Valley is providing on its website, since 31 August, the Seasonal Health Contingency Plan – 2017-2018 Winter Module. As we can read in the document, «in winter, there are often low temperatures and an increase in the incidence of respiratory infections among the population, particularly seasonal influenza, sometimes combined with other viral and bacterial agents. (…) The Seasonal Health Contingency Plan (PCSS) – Winter Module defines a set of strategic guidelines that allow preparing and adapting the response of healthcare services and citizens, given the prospects of extreme cold or of an […]

The sweetest enemy in the world

Sweets, salty snacks, cured meat products and soft drinks have been banned from cafeterias and bars at public hospitals and healthcare centers. The order was published in the Official Gazette on December 28 last year, signed by the Assistant Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Health, Fernando Araújo, and determines that all these types of products must stop being sold at these locations by 30 June 2018. According to the same order, all future contracts for the concession of this type of facilities must also ban the advertising or sale of fast-food meals. The new contracts must also […]

The sweetest enemy in the world – a conversation with the experts

Prohibiting the consumption of certain food products, re-educating the Portuguese population in terms of eating habits and creating healthier alternatives are the ways by which the Government intends to generate behavioural changes. After the order issued at the end of last year, we sought to obtain insights from experts. Manuel Carvalho is a Psychiatrist at the Santa Maria Hospital (HSM) and a member of the Eating Behaviour Disorders Team of the Psychiatry Department since 2008. Isabel do Carmo is an Endocrinologist and the Coordinator of the modules on obesity and diabetes of the Metabolic Diseases and Eating Behaviour Course (post-graduate […]

ESPAÇO S – There is a space where students can be exactly who they are

Entering a new place and conquering our own personal space, meeting new people, becoming familiar with rooms and corridors and making ourselves known, starting from scratch, is a challenge that all students have to overcome when they get into a faculty. Starting life as a medical student is another big challenge, as it requires a strong working method, focus and keeping up with a degree of demand hitherto unknown. Even those who had always been brilliant students in high school can experience a sense of failure and frustration for the first time. And they will have to continue to prove […]

Research and Advanced Education

European Research Council – For those who are thirsty for the world

There is a European company that invests in human excellence. Created in 2007 by the European Union, the ERC (European Research Council) manages funds for people who want to explore the world and break new ground, creating solutions for the advancement of Science. It is a company made by scientists and for scientists. Scientists who are launching their projects (2 to 7 years), well-established scientists (7 to 12 years) or advanced scientists (more than 10 years and involved in synergy projects), all have access to a five-year funding. With more than 6,000 projects approved, the ERC intends to invest 13 […]

Promovendo a Ciência – resultados dos concursos GAPIC 2017

O GAPIC continua a apostar na promoção da investigação científica junto de alunos pré graduados e dos recém-graduados em Medicina. Em 2017, foram lançados 3 concursos que tiveram uma adesão significativa por parte do público-alvo: Prémio GAPIC David-Ferreira, Programa “Educação pela Ciência” | Bolsas CHLN/FMUL e Bolsa de Investigação Fundação AstraZeneca/FMUL. O Prémio GAPIC David-Ferreira visa distinguir os melhores Trabalhos Finais/ Teses do MIM. No ano letivo 2016/2017 foi aberto pelo segundo ano consecutivo e registou um aumento da adesão de 77% relativamente ao ano letivo anterior, o que demonstra o crescente interesse dos alunos neste Prémio. De um total […]

Publicações Científicas (FMUL/HSM/IMM) dezembro 2017 – janeiro 2018

A Newsletter pretende, neste espaço, dar aos seus leitores uma perspetiva da produção científica realizada na Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, no Hospital de Santa Maria e no 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. Aceda ao documento em PDF. Biblioteca-CDI andresilva@medicina.ulisboa.pt

Research Day aroused the interest of the FMUL community

The 6th edition of Research Day has once again aroused the interest of the FMUL community, with a strong participation. On this day there were several initiatives to disseminate the scientific activity developed by FMUL students, and prizes were awarded to several works. Taking the opportunity, the GAPIC promoted its new project “Find the researcher you are looking for,” whose main objective is to strengthen relations among the scientific community. Research Day, organized by the GAPIC and the AEFML, took place on December 13, arousing the interest of the FMUL community and achieving the widest adherence ever, with more than […]

Sistema Watson – o software que faz investigação

Imagine o seguinte cenário: centenas, milhares de estudos científicos sobre um cancro específico, espalhados pelas várias bases de dados do mundo e uma máquina que consegue pesquisar todas essas investigações e relacionar esses artigos e cruzar todos os dados; depois analisa características de um paciente isolado e, com base nesse cruzamento de informação, sugere o melhor tratamento para o doente. Imagine que todo este processo demora apenas dois minutos, por contraponto a dias e semanas de investigação humana. Pois é, pode ser possível e foi isso que Frederico Muñoz, Chief Architect da IBM, veio apresentar. Chama-se Watson e é um […]

Diogo Maia e Silva – GAPIC David Ferreira Award

It was his Master’s degree thesis on intratumour heterogeneity that earned 24-year-old Diogo Maia e Silva the 2017 GAPIC David Ferreira Award. He began studying at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon in 2011 and finished his degree six years later. He has been living in the USA since August 2017, working on his PhD in biological sciences at the Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He has another four and a half years to develop his research work. “Cancer is a generic term that encompasses many different diseases whose main manifestation is the […]

Alexandra Santos – The search for the best path

Alexandra Santos is currently a Senior Clinical Lecturer at King’s College London and combines her academic activity with a clinical activity as a Consultant in Paediatric Allergy at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital. At King’s College she has developed a research work on Paediatric Allergies, in which the immunity and tolerance of children to peanut allergy are currently being tested in the laboratory. On Research Day, she was one of the honour guests and talked about the importance of defining what you want and what type of career you want to pursue early on, as well as, if possible, […]

AIMS – A gateway to the future

On Research Day, we talked with a student called Diogo, who was representing the AIMS. He introduced us to the project and explained how medical students can benefit from entering the competitions they promote. “The AIMS Meeting is a project that is already in its ninth edition. It is a project managed by the Student Association of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, consisting of a medical conference for medical students, or for students from medical areas other than medicine, which will take place on March 16, 17 and 18. It is an international congress that comprises […]

David Berhanu – The Poster that was born in the USA

David Berhanu is a student at the Faculty of Medicine and an Assistant at the Institute of Anatomy and, on Research Day, he presented a Poster that was the result of a research work he began as an exchange student in the United States and eventually became the object of study of his Master’s thesis, supervised by Professor Lia Lucas Neto. David chose to focus his study on the issue of schizophrenia and the development of psychotic episodes in a sample of patients with the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, considering that up to 30% of the population with this genetic condition […]

D. Manuel de Mello Grant

The Amélia de Mello Foundation has created an annual grant to reward young physicians who develop clinical research projects, as part of the Research and Development Units of the Portuguese Faculties of Medicine. The grant, worth € 50,000, is awarded annually. Applications should be submitted by 30 April to the Scientific Councils of the respective Schools. The panel that will decide on the award of these Grants is chaired by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of José de Mello Saúde. He is a member of the Scientific Councils of the National Medical Schools and the Chairman of the […]

Science Space

The molecule that can catch aging

Scientists from the iMM João Lobo Antunes, coordinated by Carmo Fonseca and Bruno de Jesus, discovered a gene that reverses the ageing process in mice skin. The manipulation of this gene not only stops ageing, but it also leads old cells to behave as new ones. Speaking to TSF, the President of the iMM, Carmo Fonseca, explains the pioneering discoveries: “It’s a reversal that allows cells to divide again, to produce new cells, because one of the characteristics of ageing cells is that they no longer divide and that is why tissues lose their normal capabilities. In a young organism, […]

Pedagogical News

Notícias do Pedagógico

Nº 104| JAN’18 CATHERINE MOHR: O PASSADO E O PRESENTE DA CIRURGIA E O SEU FUTURO ROBÓTICO Catherine Mohr é uma daquelas pessoas que mudou de carreira na meia-idade. Começou como engenheira enquanto desenvolvia veículos de energia alternativa e aeronaves de alta altitude. A sua mudança: Faculdade de Medicina na meia-idade, onde inventou um simples, no entanto brilhante dispositivo, o Lap Cap, que tornou as cirurgias laparoscópicas mais seguras. Mohr, agora, lidera o desenvolvimento a nova geração de robots cirúrgicos. Diretora de investigação médica na Intuitive Surgical Inc., é Clinical Design Leader do sistema robótico Da Vinci. Também trabalha na Stanford’s School […]

Moments

New year, new luncheon and one more cycle

“The most effective leader is the one who satisfies the psychological needs of his followers,” dais David Ogilvy, the father of Advertising. Looking at people, knowing who they are and recognizing their merit and weakness reflects a team’s mobilization skills and is the trait of a leader. For the second time, the non-teaching staff was invited by the Director of the FMUL, Professor Fausto Pinto, to a New Year’s luncheon. Making a year-end review and addressing the prospects for the new year, Professor Fausto Pinto emphasized the progress made and acknowledged that there are no perfect scenarios in an institution, […]

Keep in Mind

Symposium on Intensive Care Medicine – 2nd edition

The Symposium on Intensive Care Medicine’s 2nd edition will be held at the FMUL’s Grande Auditório João Lobo Antunes, Edifício Egas Moniz, on the 1st and 2nd February, under the auspices of the Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte’s Intensive Care Unit. For more information, see the Portuguese Society of Intensive Care’s webpage, here.

New Frontiers in Cardiology – 8th Congress

The New Frontiers in Cardiology 8th Congress will take place between February 23rd and 25th, 2018. The Congress will be chaired by FMUL Director Professor Fausto Pinto. Learn more.

Foundation for Science and Technology – Awards, Grants and Contests

The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) published, from December 1, 2017 to January 3, 2018, the following contests, prizes, events and other initiatives. Awards, Grants and Contests: Until January 9th 2018 ISPA Award for Research in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences – 2018 Edition January 19th to February 12th 2018 ‘Stimulus to Individual Scientific Employment 2017’ Until January 20th 2018 Doctoral Program in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution (BIODIV) Until January 31st 2018 Fulbright Research Grants, with the support of FCT – 2018/2019 Until February 6th 2018 TRANSCAN-2 Joint Transnational Competition on Translational Research in Rare Cancers (Pre-proposals) Until February […]

Mourning – 13th Postgraduate Updating Course

The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon promotes a Post-Graduation on Mourning starting on March this year. This course aims to provide health professionals with an opportunity to explore feelings, both in a cognitive and experiential perspective and the meaning attributed to life, death and the dying process, in order to incorporate the personal emotional domain in therapeutic competencies, in their daily work with patients and families. Course information: Specific objectives To reflect on the process of personal elaboration of feelings associated with loss and the process of dying. Recognize the needs and difficulties of families with progressive […]

XXIV Jornadas da Pediatria, Santa Maria Hospital

The XXIV Jornadas da Pediatria, organized by the Santa Maria Hospital Department of Pediatrics, will be held on February 8 and 9, 2018, at the João Lobo Antunes Grand Auditorium, Egas Moniz Building, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon. See the program here

Bial Prize for Clinical Medicine 2018

The BIAL Foundation promotes the BIAL Prize for Clinical Medicine 2018, worth 100 000€, plus the possibility of publishing the work in an exclusive first edition. There are also two honorable mentions of 10 000€ each. The BIAL Medicina Clínica 2018 Award aims to reward an intellectual, original, medical work with a free theme and directed to clinical practice, with an outcome of great quality and relevance. Works published in the form of papers or theses are not eligible. At least one of the authors must be a national doctor of a Portuguese speaking country. The Jury will be chaired […]

Multiple Myeloma – 2018 Research Grant

The Grant is awarded to a 1-year research project, to be developed in a Portuguese institution, in the amount of 15,000 Euros.Projects endorsed by national researchers or by foreign researchers working in Portuguese institutions, with vocational training and/or higher education degrees are eligible to apply for this Grant. Scientific and/or epidemiological research on Multiple Myeloma are the areas eligible for funding. Projects with an interdisciplinary nature and the collaboration and partnership between various institutions will be valued. Applications should be sent in digital format by e-mail to – bolsas@apcl.pt, by midnight of 28 February 2018 More information here

Francisco Belo receives sports scholarship

Francisco Belo, a student of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, is part of a list of 9 Portuguese student athletes who won scholarships with the unit value of 1000 euros. The 6th-year student won a gold medal in Athletics, in the discus throw competition at the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, and is now receiving a scholarship with an amount equivalent to the tuition fees paid in Public Higher Education Establishments. These Education scholarships promoted by Jogos Santa Casa/FADU (Academic Federation of University Sports), aim to reward athletes who achieved the best results in the Universiades […]

2018 Clinical Pharmacology Meetings

Between 5 and 7 February, at the Egas Moniz Building of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, a series of meetings will be held with the main objective of disseminating the progress, knowledge and research in the areas of Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology. This event is aimed at the entire scientific community, students included, and will feature 3 plenary lectures by international speakers (Simon Maxwell, University of Edinburgh, and Detlev Boison, Legacy Research Institute, USA). The program can be consulted here

Obituary

Professor João Manuel Ruas Ribeiro da Silva (1929-2018)

Professor João Ribeiro da Silva, Retired Full Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, passed away on 10 January. A leading figure of Portuguese Ophthalmology, he succeeded Professor Augusto Lopes as Full Professor of Ophthalmology. He was president of the Association of Medical Sciences and founded the Portuguese Academy of Medicine. After retiring, he dedicated himself, among other areas, to Bioethics. He published an extensive body of work. The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon offers its sincere condolences to the family and friends of Professor João Ribeiro da Silva.