The “Manuel Gomes Guerreiro Award” was unanimously awarded to João Pedro Almeida Meneses by the University of Algarve. The awardee holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (2024), having started his career in this area with a master’s degree, also in Read more…
A new paper of IBEB researchers in collaboration with other institutions was recently published! In this study, photothermal therapy (PTT) using gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) as photothermal enhancers was evaluated for in vitro and in vivo efficacy against melanoma. Uncoated and mixture of hyaluronic and oleic acids, HAOA-AuNPs, demonstrated a high Read more…
In the first week of November (7th-8th), some members of IBEB traveled to Porto to present their work at the 3rd International Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Physiology. Under the THOR project, Professor Hugo Alexandre Ferreira and his PhD student Duarte Oliveira-Saraiva presented their findings in the poster session, Read more…
Please find a call for a PhD scholarship (fully-funded with MSCA-Doctoral Network PROMOTE for 36 months) to start in February 2025, in which you will be doing your PhD with us, at IBEB. Please find if you are eligible (call open until the 20th of November 2024): https://www.euraxess.pt/jobs/288752 https://ciencias.ulisboa.pt/concursos?id=4778 The Read more…
On October 30th, IMAGI Health, a startup based on IBEB, was awarded the 3rd place in the Lispolis Ignite Demo Day. This was part of a acceleration program dedicated to Healthtech innovation.
On the 26th of October, IBEB’s researcher Nuno Garcia was a speaker at a round-table about “Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare” (originally in Portuguese, “Inteligência Artificial e Saúde”) at the X Ciclo de Saúde Mental do Fundão.
On the 22nd of October, IBEB researchers and PhD students presented two posters about their research projects at CIÊNCIAS Research & Innovation Day in Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. Daniela Godinho, Henrique Lopes and Raquel Conceição presented “Breast and Axillary Microwave Imaging to Aid Breast Cancer Diagnosis Read more…
Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common type of skin carcinoma worldwide. BCC development is the result of a complex interaction between environmental, phenotypic, and genetic factors. While conventional treatments such as surgery and topical therapies have demonstrated variable efficacy (some of them with limited efficacy), they are not Read more…
The Workshop on Biomedical Engineering is an annual event organised by the Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics students of CIÊNCIAS, more specifically by the Núcleo de Estudantes de Engenharia Biomédica e Biofísica (NE2B2), with the support of IBEB. This year’s edition, the 16th Workshop on Biomedical Engineering, took place from the Read more…
During the 4th URSI Atlantic Radio Science Meeting, researchers Daniela Godinho, Maria Gonçalves, and Raquel Conceição were with URSI Portuguese Committee and were interviewed for an episode of “Podcast da Radiociência”, which is now available! Listen on Spotify: