The Associate Laboratory Life Sciences for a Healthy and Sustainable Future (LS4FUTURE) is a unique infrastructure in Portugal dedicated to the study of Life Sciences, at different levels of complexity through fundamental, applied, and translational research.

It gathers top-level scientists and critical mass in the Life Sciences area by bringing together:

Four Research Units: MOSTMICRO-ITQB NOVA, iNOVA4Health, Green-it and Gulbenkian Ciência.
Five Institutions: ITQB NOVA, NOVA Medical School, iBET, IGC and IPO Lisboa.

The Associated Laboratory in Translation and Innovation Towards Global Health (REAL) is a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional and highly collaborative associated laboratory aiming at advancing translation science and medicine, in a bench-to-bedside approach, discovering and developing new diagnostic tools and treatments and ensuring that proven strategies for disease treatment and prevention are effectively implemented within the community.

REAL brings together:

3 R&D Units - Comprehensive Health Research Center (CHRC), the Global Health and Tropical Medicine (GHTM) and The Laboratory for Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering and Radiation Physics (LIBPhys).

4 Affiliated Schools - NOVA Medical School, National School of Public Health (ENSP), Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT), and Faculty of Sciences and Technology (NOVA-FCT).

3 Partner Institutions - University of Évora (UE), University of Coimbra (UC), University of Lisbon (UL).

VOH.CoLAB is a non-profit private organization whose mission is to measure value in Health. The founding partners, which includes NOVA Medical School, have centralized competencies and resources to create this CoLAB to accelerate the fundamental restructuring of Healthcare delivery towards a paradigm shift to Value-Based Healthcare, in which Citizens’ engagement is essential.

Founding Partners: NOVA University Lisbon, CUF, Vodafone and Fraunhofer Portugal

CoLAB TRIALS is a collaborative laboratory that brings together Healthcare Units, Universities, a Pharma/Biotech Industry association, and a Centre for Laboratory Medicine.

Its ecosystem makes it a critical partner supporting the development of innovative health products, through regulatory compliance and clinical validation.