Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is one of the deadliest infectious diseases worldwide, leading to 10 million human cases and 1.4 million associated deaths in 2019. Most cases are found in Asia, Africa, and Western Pacific regions. TB drug resistance is one of the major threats to control the disease, and its expansion is […]
Read More

The internship «PSI Parasite Scene Investigation – Come to be an Investigator for One Week!», a joint project between GHTM and «Ciência Viva – National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture» grabbed the attention of four secondary school students.   The four secondary students and Prof. Sofia Cortes, PhD.   GHTM’s Prof. Sofia Cortes, inspired […]
Read More

Dear colleagues, This year, there will be another edition of the Portuguese National Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology, MICROBIOTEC’21. Hosted by the NOVA University of Lisbon, it will run online, from the 23rd to the 26th of November (13h-19:30). The program includes several areas such as: Industrial and Food Microbiology and Biotechnology; Environmental Microbiology and […]
Read More

  Having as a mission «To foster research, training and implementation on Global Health and Tropical Medicine», GHTM R&D Centre’s researchers are very interested to better understand the percentage of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the Portuguese Speaking Communities, in Portugal or abroad. In May 2020, the Cascais City Council established a partnership with GHTM to conduct […]
Read More

  LGBTQ+ flag vector created by jcomp – www.freepik.com Researchers from various academic fields have studied different life aspects of men who have sex with men (MSM) in the last decades. Arguably, their health issues are the most analysed, mainly because of their role in the AIDS epidemic history, which revealed not only its trigger […]
Read More