In October 2024, we had the Portuguese workshop on Blood Brain Barrier Crossing Strategies, co-organized with Luís Pereira de Almeida (GeneT, CNC-UC) and Rui Jorge Nobre (ViraVector, UC) at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology of the University of Coimbra (CNC-UC). This meeting was an opportunity to share research interests…
In September 2024, the ERA Chair Team participated in the European Researchers’ Night held at IBMC The team set up a stall entitled “Guardians of the Brain” and organized several interactive and educational activities that included memory games and looking at “fluorescent” astrocytes and…
What a winning week! We are very proud to announce that our Ph.D. candidates Rafaela Seixas and João Guimarães were awarded each a Ph.D. Fellowship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)! Our congratulations for their achievement!
Congratulations to our post-doc Dr. Maria Joana Pinto on securing €50,000.00 for an Exploratory Project funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)!
This year the ERA Chairs ImmunoHUB & NCBio joined forces to organise the Annual Meeting “At the Crossroads of Neuroscience and Immunology: Advances and Innovations”! We are thrilled to bring together leading experts in the field of neuroimmunology to discuss cutting-edge discoveries and…
This year, we celebrated the Brain Awareness Week by celebrating neurodiversity. We welcomed neurodiverse young people from the Portuguese Association for Developmental Disorders and Autism (APPDA-Norte) for a guided tour at the i3S. Our young guests saw the marvels of…
On March 4 we had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Dr. Wim Annaert, an expert in Alzheimer’s Disease. Prof. Dr. Annaert is a full professor at the KU Leuven and a group leader at the VIB-Center for Brain and Disease, Leuven, Belgium. We heard his…
Last July 22nd was World Brain Day and Dr. Olga Sin had the honor of promoting a short video to highlight the wonders of the brain, especially the unknown half of the brain.
Last June 20th we invited all stakeholders who supported the ERA Chair candidacy to the official launch of the NCBio Stakeholder Hub. Dr. Mónica Sousa—Project Coordinator and Director of IBMC—officially opened the meeting by introducing the NCBio project and the…
To celebrate Brain Awareness Week, Dr. Matthew Holt challenged the Ciência Viva Science Clubs and 7th, 8th and 9th graders to become neuroscientists and discover the unknown side of the brain.