The Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro – Núcleo Regional do Norte (LPCC-NRN) has awarded three one-year research grants to ICVS researchers, Julieta Afonso, Joana Vieira, and Ana Raquel Cunha, as part of its commitment to supporting innovative oncology research in Portugal.
Beatriz Assis has received a R&D@USA scholarship from the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD). This scholarship, aimed primarily at Master’s and PhD students, offers exceptional opportunities for conducting research internships in innovative scientific and technological sectors in the United States.
ICVS researcher Sara Calafate has been awarded an EMBO Installation Grant, an accolade that supports early-stage group leaders in establishing their laboratories.
Neuroscientists at the Institute for Research in Life and Health Sciences (ICVS), at the University of Minho School of Medicine, have made significant progress in understanding how the brain processes positive and negative stimuli. Their findings, published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications, shed new light on the role of neurons in a region of our brain that is key to perceiving pleasure and aversion, the nucleus accumbens.
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.
