Francisco Almeida, a PhD student and researcher at the ICVS – Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (School of Medicine, University of Minho), has been awarded the prestigious 2025 ESNR Scientific Award by the European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR), one of the highest international honors in the field of neuroradiology.

Six researchers from ICVS have been included among the world’s top 2% most cited scientists over the past year, featured in the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2025 list, published by Stanford University in collaboration with Elsevier.

Over 2,000 visitors attended the event at Forum Braga, where ICVS offered interactive activities showcasing the science behind health and well-being.

Jorge Diogo da Silva, researcher at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS) of the University of Minho’s School of Medicine (EMUM), was awarded today the João Monjardino Prize 2024 for his pioneering study on spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 / Machado-Joseph disease—a rare, hereditary neurodegenerative disorder that currently has no effective treatment.

ICVS researcher Carina Cunha was recognized with the ISN Young Scientist Lectureship Award, granted by the International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN). The award ceremony was conducted on August 21st, 2025, at the ISN-ASN Biennial Meeting in New York, USA.

Agostinho Carvalho, a principal investigator at ICVS, has received more than $450,000 in funding from the Ann Theodore Foundation to lead a two-year research project focused on the mechanisms of sarcoidosis, a rare complex inflammatory disease that remains poorly understood.  The research will be conducted in close collaboration with Dr. Hélder Bastos and the FIBRALUNG consortium, the largest nationwide patient registry and biobank for interstitial lung diseases.