Federico Herrera and Manuela Pereira received the Ideias para a Sustentabilidade em Ciências prize to develop a course aimed at fostering autonomy and potential labor integration for individuals with Down syndrome.

Sometimes people can´t see you because you have a disease which is rare. However, BioISI's researchers show themselves for you as they advance the scientific knowledge on rare diseases everyday. Watch our video to highlight this Rare Disease Day and remember: although rare, we care.

The team lead by Helena Gaspar in collaboration with Alexandra Antunes (from the Centro de Química Estrutural at Instituto Superior Técnico) conducted the isolation, purification, and structural characterization of the new synthetic drug – N-desethyl-isotonitazene - by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy.

Carlos Farinha obtained funding from the Italian Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation (ICFRF) to understand the connections between the cell cytoskeleton and the cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate (cAMP) (a messenger molecule) communication pathway to find new opportunities to improve the current therapies.

Researchers from BioISI - INSA  hosted the kick-off meeting of the PerMedFH project (Personalizing diagnosis and treatment for Familial Hypercholesterolemia), funded by la Caixa Foundation with around 1 M€.

Ana Margarida Fortes, group leader of the Fruit Functional Genomics & Biotechnology Lab at Ciências ULisboa, gives an interview to the Journal of the Portuguese Association of Horticulture about new genomic technologies