ICVS

Researchers from ICVS published a study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, which assesses the influence of the lung microbiota on the incidence and clinical course of patients diagnosed with influenza-associated aspergillosis (IAPA) or COVID-19 (CAPA), or bacterial superinfections.

A team of researchers from ICVS recently published an article in the journal “Neurobiology of Aging” that addresses how the presence of psychosis indicates a more negative prognosis and greater cognitive decline in patients diagnosed with the disease of Alzheimer's.

More than 570,000 adults live with asthma in Portugal, a disease that has a prevalence of 7.1%. Of these thousands of people, almost seven in 10 (68%) do not have their disease under control, show data from “EPI-ASTHMA - Prevalence and characterization of people with asthma, according to the severity of the disease, in Portugal”, a study developed in collaboration by ICVS, CINTESIS of the University of Porto and AstraZeneca Portugal.

Vitória Baptista, a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at the Centre of Microelectromechanical Systems (CMEMS) and the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS) at the University of Minho, has been awarded an “EMBO Scientific Exchange Grant” and a “FEMS Research and Training Grant".

ICVS researcher and employee of the University of Minho School of Medicine, Magda Castelhano-Carlos, was re-elected President of the Portuguese Society of Laboratory Animal Sciences (SPCAL).

A team of neuroscientists from ICVS recently published an article in the international scientific journal Journal of Neurochemistry that uncovers the mechanisms underlying associative learning in the brain.

In a work, recently published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers at the Life and Health Science Research Institute (ICVS) at the University of Minho, in Portugal, used animal models of spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 or Machado-Joseph disease (SCA3/MJD) to test a promising drug: the compound tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA for short).

Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium, transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes. The most deadly form of malaria is caused by Plasmodium falciparum, which is responsible for about 95% of all malaria cases…

Nuno Silva was one of the Portuguese researchers to win the CaixaResearch Health Research 2023 award, a competition run by the “la Caixa” Foundation.

Nuno Dinis Alves and Sara Calafate, researchers from ICVS at the School of Medicine, are distinguished this Thursday, November 16th, with the Maria de Sousa prize.