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.