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ICVS researchers Agostinho Carvalho and Patrícia Maciel won the CaixaResearch Health 2024 award, a competition run by the “la Caixa” Foundation.

Bruno Silva and Marcos Fernández-Rodríguez, two PhD students at the ICVS in the surgical sciences and allied technology (SS&AT) research team, obtained three prestigious awards at the MICCAI 2024 international conference held in Marrakesh from the 6th to 10th of October for Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention.

Samuel Gonçalves, researcher at the ICVS, is honored this Wednesday, October 9th, with the Maria de Sousa prize awarded by the BIAL Foundation. The award-winning project tries to understand how the metabolism of our cells can contribute to susceptibility to aspergilosis disease, allow us to find new therapeutic targets and develop new personalized medicine strategies.

“Breathing is Essential! Breathe in, Breathe out and Learn about it!”, the activity developed by ICVS researchers was a success at the European Researchers’ Night, an event that took place last Friday, September 27th, at Forum Braga.

The ICVS researchers are part of 66 UMinho scientists who are in the 2% most cited in the world over the last year, according to a study by Stanford University (USA) and the Elsevier editorial group.

The production of new astrocytes in the adult human brain may contribute to an improvement in depressive and anxious behavior in patients with neuropsychiatric diseases, as well as to the restitution of neural cells in the hippocampus, a brain region important for the control of emotional and cognitive behaviors. These are the main conclusions of a study carried out by a research team from the ICVS, and recently published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.

Egídio Torrado and Consuelo Micheli, researchers at the ICVS at the UMinho School of Medicine, were awarded the Research Grant 2024 from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) for their work on tuberculosis.

A team from the Institute for Research in Life and Health Sciences (ICVS) at the University of Minho created software that converts echocardiography from two to three dimensions, which could prove decisive in evaluating patients in emergency and intensive care.

Ana João Rodrigues, researcher at the ICVS at the School of Medicine of the University of Minho, was elected to join the Committee for Higher Education and Training (CHET) of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), which begins work with the first meeting at the end of August.

More than 170 participants attended the ICVS Retreat 2024 at the Monastery of Tibães in Braga, between the 4th and 5th of July.  The program included presentations, debates, poster sessions, well-being and team building activities.