In a paper recently published in the scientific journal Pain, researchers from the Institute of Life and Health Sciences (ICVS) developed and validated a new animal model of experimental osteoarthritis that mimics the radiological progression of the disease

A team of ICVS researchers saw their work about coffee consumption and its effects on the brain published in the journal Frontiers of Behavioral Neuroscience.

Start-up Karion Therapeutics, funded by ICVS researcher’s Marta Costa and Fátima Baltazar, dedicated to an innovative treatment for aggressive cancers, is the winner of the Arqus International Innovators Award.

The ICVS Summer Retreat 2023 took place between the 28th and 29th of June at the Monastery of Tibães, where around 150 participants debated the future of the ICVS

ICVS researcher Nuno Silva saw his project “Activated Macrophages and Spinal Cord Injury Repair: The Secretome Effect” awarded 200,000 euros by the Wings for Life Foundation.

ICVS´s researcher Sara Calafate saw her work on Alzheimer’s disease recognized and published in Nature Neuroscience. Sara Calafate, Joris de Wit and Bart de Strooper at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research, co-led a project that involved the lab of Tiago Gil Oliveira at ICVS, and investigated an interesting phenomenon in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease.