Starting today, the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2022 (WAAW) has as its theme “Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance Together”, and until 24th November several activities will occur. The WAAW 2022 is developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World […]
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  The Workshop “Gene Editing and Regulation in Protozoan parasites and their Vectors” co-organized by Andreia Wendt (WCIP/UofG, UK) and Sofia Cortes (IHMT NOVA, PT), members of the Vector Borne Diseases, Global Health and Tropical Medicine group (VBD/GHTM), took place from the 27th of October till the 2nd of November 2022. This workshop, organized as […]
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  The original article entitled “Seroprevalence and Risk Factors Associated with Leishmania Infection in Dogs from Portugal” has just been published on Microorganisms, one of the MDPI open access and peer-reviewed journals. Maria Almeida, Carla Maia, José M. Cristóvão, Lenea Campino, Luzia Gonçalves and Sofia Cortes were the GHTM/IHMT-NOVA’s scientists involved in this study, which […]
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  “New antimalarials: from drug discovery to clinical trials” is the title of the symposium organized by Marcelo U. Ferreira and Pedro Cravo, researchers from IHC- and VBD-GHTM respectively. The event will be held on 19th and 20th of December, from 12:00 am to 7:40 pm (Lisbon time), in hybrid format. Developed under the cross-cutting […]
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Henrique Silveira, full professor of IHMT-NOVA and VBD-GHTM researcher, accepted the invitation to be a member of the Scientific Council of the Health and Environment Portuguese Council (CPSA). Created from the need to intervene in the issues of climate change, environmental degradation and its impact on health, CPSA is a new entity committed to mitigate […]
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