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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.
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Study confirms the impact of aspergillosis on the prognosis of critically ill patients with viral pneumonia
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.
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ICVS researchers show that “40% of patients with Alzheimer’s disease suffer from psychosis and identifies affected areas of the brain”
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.
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ICVS collaborates in first study on the prevalence of asthma in Portugal: more than 570 thousand people have the disease
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.
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ICVS Researcher Vitória Baptista awarded two grants
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".
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Magda Castelhano-Carlos re-elected President of SPCAL
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).
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ICVS study reveals new insights into the mechanisms underlying associative learning in the brain
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.
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Compound that aids in the digestion of fatty foods within the intestine demonstrates potential as a treatment for a rare brain disorder
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).
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How a traveller’s ordeal reveals the threat of artemisinin resistance in Africa – An ICVS Study
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…

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