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The Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS)
was established in 2003 to develop biomedical research
within the School of Medicine of the University of Minho.

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April 2, 2025

ICVS Advanced Seminar “Integrating lipid and immunometabolic pathways in Leishmania pathogenesis”

We are excited to announce the launch of the ICVS Advanced Seminars, a weekly series aimed at fostering discussion on cutting-edge research. The seminars will take place every Thursday at 1 PM. Our first speaker, Ricardo Silvestre, Principal Investigator at the i3D thematic team, will present his talk titled “Integrating lipid and immunometabolic pathways in Leishmania pathogenesis” in room A0.03 next Thursday, April 3rd at 1PM.

April 1, 2025

ICVS Researcher Filipa Antunes Wins ART 3R Award for Innovative Parkinson’s Therapy

Filipa Antunes, a researcher at ICVS, has won the ART 3R Award for 2025. Her project, “Intranasal Administration as a Minimally Invasive Alternative for Stem Cell-Based Parkinson’s Disease Therapy in Rodents,” has been awarded a €3,000 grant to explore a more humane and cost-effective method for treating Parkinson’s disease in animal models.

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March 31, 2025

ICVS Researchers Join Innovative GALActIC Study to Combat IAPA

ICVS is a contributing partner in the launch of GALActIC, a pioneering European Union research project aimed at tackling Influenza-associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis (IAPA). The study, led by a European consortium, is funded by the European Partnership for Personalised Medicine (EP PerMed) and promises to pave the way for more effective identification and treatment of this severe condition.

April 2025

Apr 07

Apr 07, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

ICVS Student Seminar "The Mental Health Cost of Gambling: An Epidemiological Study on Scratch Card Use and Pathological Gambling in Portugal"

April 7th at 1 pm, don’t miss Patrícia Soares Coelho "The Mental Health Cost of Gambling: An Epidemiological Study on Scratch Card Use and Pathological Gambling in Portugal" at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

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Apr 10

Apr 10, 2025 April 10 - April 12

Gynecological Minimally Invasive Surgery Course

Course on Gynecological Laparoscopic Surgery with three components: theoretical lessons, practical hands-on sessions on animal model in a fully equipped surgical lab, and live surgery.

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Apr 14

Apr 14, 2025 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

ICVS Student Seminar “Targeting CD147- and GLUD1-mediated metabolic reprogramming in cancer and muscular dystrophy”

April 14th at 1 pm, don’t miss Andreia Nunes “Targeting CD147- and GLUD1-mediated metabolic reprogramming in cancer and muscular dystrophy” at the A0.02 auditorium in UMinho’s School of Medicine.

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