Jorge Marques da Silva obtained his professorship aggregation in Biology (field of Physiology & Biochemistry) at Ciências ULisboa, last July. Get to know Jorge - the scientist and the man - a little better by reading this Researcher Profile.

Researchers identified the traits conferring wheat resilience to water scarcity and hight temperatures and can now provide breeders a program to plant a more resistant wheat variety to climate change.

This study reveals that urea has an important role when it comes to desegregate certain proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.