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.

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.