Patrícia Monteiro - What is the relationship between the primary hearing cortex and autism?

This research is focusing in the area of ​​our brain responsible for hearing, the primary auditory cortex, to study its relationship to autism. Patrícia Monteiro, a researcher at the Institute of Life and Health Sciences (ICVS) at the University of Minho School of Medicine (EMUM), has been studying the neurobiology of autism since 2009. "My interest in autism begun a few years ago in 2009, I developed research in this area in the USA in Boston at the Massachusetts Institu ...

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ICVS’s Researchers Awarded Programa Gilead Génese

ICVS’s / Escola de Medicina – Universidade do Minho researchers Nuno Osório and Rita Ribeiro da Silva were awarded with the Programa Gilead Génese! Read the Article on Expresso.

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ICVS Researchers Discover New Therapy

A team of researchers from the University of Minho’s ICVS discovered a new therapy that allows to reverse spinal cord injuries. The therapeutic approach that combines stem cells and biomaterials was already tested in animals. Watch here the video from Porto Canal.

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Agostinho Carvalho, do ICVS / Escola de Medicina UM, recebe 1 milhão de euros para investigar doenças pulmonares

Agostinho Carvalho, do Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde (ICVS) da Escola de Medicina da Universidade do Minho, foi distinguido com uma bolsa de um milhão de euros, no primeiro concurso da “Iniciativa Ibérica de Investigação e Inovação Biomédica, i4b”, promovido pela Fundação “la Caixa” a pela Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. O concurso teve 785 candidaturas e vinte ...

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The best high school students at ICVS.

The best high school students fromBraga, Viana do Castelo and Vila Real visited different schools/labs of UMinholast week in the “Melhores alunos na UMinho” initiative. ICVS/School ofMedicine received 12 of these students, which participated in differentscientific activities, namely in the field of Microbiology, Neuroscienceand Microsurgery.  In this Porto Canalreport you can find statements by Carla Martins, pro-rector for theInternationalization of Education, Rui O ...

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