In December 2025, the Soroptimist Club in Lisbon selected Raquel Conceição for the Award Dr. Maria de Lourdes Bettencourt – Edition 2025, for her scientific contribution to women’s healthcare, namely in the area of microwave imaging for breast cancer screening. The award was given on the 16th of December 2025 Read more
Ana Margarida Mota, Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and researcher at the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering (IBEB), has been awarded the Diagnostics Travel Award 2026, granted by the scientific journal Diagnostics (MDPI). The award supports her participation in the 18th International Workshop Read more
PhD student João Mendes, and full members of IBEB Prof. Ana M. Mota and Prof. Nuno Matela have published new research on using AI to differentiate breast lesions with very similar radiological appearance. A key highlight of this work is the implementation of Explainable AI (XAI), ensuring transparency and providing Read more
Researcher Daniela Godinho has had her project “Multimodal Deep Learning Approaches for Predicting Treatment Response in Breast Cancer”, in collaboration with Inês Prata Machado from the University of Cambridge, approved under the 6th Advanced Computing Projects Call – A0 (Lot A). This project will grant access to advanced computational infrastructure Read more
In the context of the “3BAtwin” project, coordinated by professor Raquel Conceição, the University of Galway (GALWAY) is organising a “Training school on management of technology transfer” for FCiências.ID/CIÊNCIAS-ULISBOA administration staff from 14th to 16th of January 2026. The school will take place at Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, locally organised by FCiências.ID/CIÊNCIAS-ULISBOA, Read more
A new paper titled “Quantitative Evaluation of Repeatability in Medical Microwave Imaging: A Systematic Review” has just been published in the IEEE Access journal by PhD student Henrique Lopes, together with IBEB researchers and professors Daniela Godinho and Raquel Conceição. Repeatability is a critical requirement for bringing medical microwave imaging Read more
On November 26th, PhD student Henrique Lopes took part in the 9th Annual RedeSaúde Conference in Lisbon, dedicated to the theme “People and Planet: How the Environment Shapes Human Health.” He presented his research “Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Screening and Axillary Lymph Node Detection” during the poster session and Read more
On 21 November, several researchers from IBEB attended the 19º Congresso do Comité Português da URSI, whose theme this year was “Novas Fronteiras da Inovação Tecnológica para a Saúde”. The keynote speaker was Professor and IBEB researcher Raquel Conceição, who is also Vice-President of URSI’s National Scientific Commission K. In Read more
On November 11th, IMAGI Health, an innovative project based on IBEB, won the “Pitch Competition” in the “Student” category of the UniVerse – Entrepreneurial Academy event. Developed by PhD students Mariana de Oliveira and Leonor Pires, and alumni Inês Castro de Lima and Raquel Rebordão, IMAGI Health is a groundbreaking Read more
The paper “Acute Invasive Dorso-Ventral DCS Applied With a Ball Electrode Does Not Alter Spinal Motoneurons’ Firing Characteristics in the SOD-1 G93A Mouse Model of ALS” was recently published in the European Journal of Neuroscinece. This work was co-authored by PhD student Leonor de Oliveira Pires and IBEB researcher and Read more