Between 1-12 August, VBD-GHTM researchers Márcia Melo Medeiros, Gustavo Capatti Cassiano, Pedro Cravo and Joana Marques received two high school students for an immersive internship at the IHTM-NOVA laboratory, specialized in seeking new or repositioned drugs against malaria (an initiative of Ciência Viva no Laboratório – Criar Futuro 2022). “Ciência Viva no Laboratório – Criar […]
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Between the 4th and 8th July, the GHTM-IHMT BIOTROP biobank Technical Coordinator Ana Tavares visited the Biological Collections of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, under the ERASMUS + Staff Mobility program. Fiocruz Biological Collections resulted from a number of initiatives associated with the promotion of quality and improvement of the conditions […]
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Between 5th and 11th June, the GHTM-IHMT Group leaders Maria do Rosário Martins (Population health, policies and services), Ana Paula Arez (Vector borne diseases and pathogens), Isabel Couto (Tuberculosis, HIV, opportunistic diseases and pathogens) and Marcelo Urbano Ferreira (Individual health care), visited Praia and Assomada cities, in Santiago Island, for a work mission. In order […]
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In his capacity of member of Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM), Sambo accepted the invitation to be part of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH), “the world’s largest alliance for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health and well-being”. To ensure that all women, infants and children remain healthy and thrive, the PMNCH […]
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The project called “PADRE: Predicting Antiviral Drug Resistance before its Emergence”, developed by Professor Dr. Ana Abecasis and by the Master student Francisco Merca, of the TB, HIV and opportunistic diseases and pathogens (THOP) group, from Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM), got accepted by the 2022 call of the EUTOPIA alliance PhD-Co tutelle programme. […]
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