The GHTM Scientific Coordinator, Henrique Silveira, integrated Kanazawa University team researchers that surprised scientific community showing that inactivation of the mosquito salivary protein AAPP affects feeding on host blood, thus significantly reducing mosquito fitness characteristics. In this study transgenic mosquitos showed significantly longer probing and prediuresis times, and worse feeding success and meal sizes compared […]
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Project co-financed by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund and the GHTM-IHMT
In collaboration with the ACES Amadora the project was launched on the 9th of April at the Amadora Municipal Library in a meeting attended by health professionals representing all 9 USFs and UCSPs of the ACES. The meeting was a platform to present and discuss the main objectives and implementation of the study which aim […]
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IHMT / NOVA participates in a Science Advances study that reveals the global spread of tuberculosis and its relation to European expansion and development of antibiotic resistance.
IHMT / NOVA participates in the most complete genomic analysis carried out on the most widespread form of the Tuberculosis bacillus, called Lineage 4 and predominant in Portugal and Europe, significantly increasing our understanding of the origin and dissemination of the most common and most tuberculosis, as well as their appetite for drug resistance. This […]
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Research Opportunities to Cover Important Gaps in TB, TB/HIV and HIV
The aim of this meeting is to explore co-funding possibilities in the fields of TB and TB/HIV coinfection, of mutual interest from the NIH and EDCTP, to cover important scientific gaps of these endemic diseases. The infrastructure and ongoing studies of two research sites (Bandim/Guiné Bissau and CISPOC/Moçambique) will be presented as potential sites for […]
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IHMT was present at the European Researchers’ Night 2018
On 28 September, the IHMT participated in the European Night of Investigators with the activity “Supercientists X Superbacteria: the battle of the millennium!”. Researchers Luís Lapão, Mélanie Maia and André Beja provided information and materials on the HAITooL project to promote awareness in the community about the issue of combating infections associated with health care […]
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