Eleven students from the NOVA Medical School were recently awarded funding to pursue their ambitious projects, securing Doctoral Research Scholarships in the 2023 Call by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
These scholarships are intended for candidates enrolled in doctoral programs, promoting cutting-edge research and innovation in all fields of knowledge.
The selected students stood out in a rigorous competition, where they presented innovative and high-impact research proposals. The project subjects cover various areas of medicine, from neuroscience to innovative work in nutrition and metabolic diseases. The awarded scholarships will enable the eleven students to focus on their projects, conducting experiments, collecting data, and contributing to the growing knowledge in the medical and biomedical fields.
Funded doctoral projects:
- Akiko Teshima, Metabolic Diseases Research Group (MEDIR), "Bariatric Surgery Alters Extracelular Vesicles Composition: A Multi-Omics Perspective", sob a orientação de Rita Oliveira e co-orientação de José Silva Nunes (Hospital Curry Cabral);
- Ana Caulino, "The links between BAR domain proteins endophilin-A and BIN1 and neurodegeneration", sob orientação de Ira Milosevic (CIBB – MIA) e co-orientação de Cláudia Almeida;
- Carlos Pita, Molecular Nutrition and Health Group, "Improvement of the gut-brain axis imbalance in Parkinson’s disease through a (poly)phenol-enriched diet: mechanistic insights", sob a orientação de Cláudia Santos e co-supervisão de Stefan Kempa (MDC-BIMSB, DE) e de María de los Ángeles Ávila Gálvez (CEBAS-CSIC, ES);
- Diogo Sequeira, Renal, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Pharmacology, "Disclosing the galectin-3-rich uremic phenotype towards membrane preservation and better long-term outcomes in patients on peritoneal dialysis", sob orientação de Sofia A. Pereira e co-orientação de Cátia Moreira de Sousa e de Sofia de Azeredo Lopes;
- Gilberto Santos, Nutrition, Metabolism and Microbiota Group, "The effect of blackberries in the prevention of obesity-related neurodysfunction: is the microbiota-gut- brain axis the key?", sob a orientação de Ana Faria e co-orientação de Cláudia Marques;
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Inês Castela,
Nutrition Clinical Research Group, "
UpTIME – Unravelling the role of Toxicological, Inflammatory, Metabolic, and Endocrine functions of Adipose Tissue on the success of bariatric surgery: putative involvement of endocrine disruptors", sob orientação de
Diana Teixeira e co-orientação de
Diogo Pestana;
- Inês P. Silva, Molecular Nutrition and Health Group, "Parkinson’s disease bRain-on-ChIp Model to disclose polyphEnols potential (PRIME)", sob a orientação de Inês Figueira e co-orientação de Cláudia Santos;
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Isabella Coraini Bracchi, "
Stevia exposure during the perigestational period and fetal programing of metabolic dysfunction", sob orientação de Elisa Keating (FMUP) e co-orientação de
Diogo Pestana e de Rita Negrão (FMUP)
- Luana Macedo, Metabolic Diseases Research Group (MEDIR), "The role of extracellular vesicles in the progression of diabetic retinopathy through the gut-liver-retina axis", sob a orientação de Rita Oliveira e co-orientação de Sandra Tenreiro e Federico Herrera (FCUL);
- Jéssica Cabrita, Cytoskeleton in Development and Disease Group, "Regulation of microtubule organizing centers during development", sob a orientação de Ana Rita Marques.
- Giulia Romeo, "Metallonucleosides as ICD inducers", sob orientação de Ana Petronilho (ITQB NOVA) e co-orientação de Helena Soares e Frederico Herrera (FCUL).
More information regarding this call on the website of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.