National TA network (GrEAT)

January 12, 2015

The national TA network started in 2010 as GrEAT (study group on technology assessment) and has a webpage at https://avaliacaotecnologia.wordpress.com/

The members are the TA community involved in the PhD programme, and also all the other interested people as scholars, supervisors, members of the parliament,and so forth.

Programme structure

October 16, 2014

The PhD Programme on "Technology Assessment" is organised over a 4 year structure, and the training courses take place during the first 2 years, although during that period is supposed to start the research process leading to the final thesis.

Best Poster Award by The International Organization for Biological Crystallization

July 7, 2014

 On June 23rd, Diana Ribeiro, from the Macromolecular Crystallography & GlycoLab Group at FCT-UNL, was awarded the Prize for Best Poster entitled “Use of Gold Nanoparticles as Additives in Protein Crystallization”, by The International Organization for Biological Crystallization, in the 1st FEBS-INSTRUCT Practical Crystallization Course, Advanced Methods in Macromolecular Crystallization VI, that t

Bluepharma / University of Coimbra Innovation Award (2013 edition)

May 4, 2014
 Angelina Sá Palma, Maria João Romão and Ana Luísa Carvalho integrate the winning team, headed by researcher Paula Videira, from FCM-UNL.

Best Poster Award in the 3rd ENURS & ESRF Day

April 7, 2014

 On April 8th, Viviana Correia was awarded the Prize for Best Poster entitled “Implementation of the Microarray Technology for studying molecular interactions of the bacterial Cellulosome”, in the 3rd ENURS & ESRF Day, that took place in Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (

Clara Immenwahr Award

January 20, 2014

 The cluster of excellence “Unifying Concepts in Catalysis” (UniCat) has presented Dr. Teresa Santos-Silva with the 2014 Clara Immenwahr Award on February 21st at the Technische Universität Berlin. The chemist is being honoured for her outstanding contributions to the field of aldehyde oxidase enzymes, a group of enzymes that are important for all vertebrates.

António Xavier Award (2013 edition)

July 4, 2013
 Aldino Viegas, who obtained his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon in the specialty of Structural Biochemistry, was awarded the António Xavier Award for the best PhD thesis in the area of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. His thesis, completed in 2012 and supervised by Prof. Eurico Cabrita, Dr Ana Luisa Carvalho and Prof.

Santander-Totta/UNL Scientific Merit Award (2013 edition)

July 4, 2013

 Group members Angelina Palma and Ana Luísa Carvalho integrate, in collaboration with the Principal Investigator Paula Videira, from FCM-UNL, the team awarded with the Santander-Totta/UNL Scientific Merit award.