This year, we celebrated the Brain Awareness Week by honoring our elderly community in collaboration with the Senior University Eugénio de Andrade from CCD Porto at i3S. It was an unforgettable day of sharing the wonders of the brain and the model…
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…
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 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…
