Selected projects 2021

The dialogue between cells, key in avoiding obesity and associated illnesses

Alejo Efeyan

The reason for hereditary arrhythmias that cause sudden death in young people

Silvia G. Priori

Light-controlled drugs to reduce cardiac lesion following a myocardial infarction

Amadeu Llebaria

The metabolism, key to understanding non-alcoholic fatty liver

Antonio Zorzano

New therapeutic targets to treat non-alcoholic fatty liver

Cecilia Rodrigues

Improve genetic understanding of diabetes to find new therapies

Jose Bessa

Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnología

The hiding places of malaria

Hernando A. del Portillo

Drugs that target the host to treat tuberculosis

Francisco José Roca Soler

Understanding the differences in the severity of tuberculosis as a key to find new treatments

Margarida Saraiva

Synthetic viruses to treat bacterial infections

Joana Azeredo

Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnología

New drugs to treat candidiasis

Toni Gabaldón

Designing a new vaccine against malaria

Miguel Prudêncio

Enhancing understanding of Alexander’s disease

Dolores Pérez-Sala

An atlas to predict the more aggressive dementias

Ben Lehner

A graphene nanodevice to better understand the brain

Pedro Alpuim

Neuronal reprogramming to slow Huntington’s disease

Josep M. Canals

Regenerative medicine advances towards the recovery of mobility and vision

Eloísa Herrera

New therapeutic strategies to treat ALS

Ana Martinez

Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundación Luzón

Understanding the origin of depression to identify new therapeutic targets

João Filipe Oliveira

Understanding how stress affects cognitive function to identify new

Paulo Pinheiro

Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnología

Better understanding the brain to design strategies against neurological disorders

Liset M de la Prida

Drug resistance and metastasis, keys to improve cancer survival

Helder Maiato

Understanding telomere instability could improve cancer therapies

Claus Maria Azzalin

Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnología

Predicting which tumours will respond to immunotherapy

Ignacio Melero Bermejo

Towards new therapies against colorectal cancer

Maite Huarte

Nanobots to treat bladder cancer

Samuel Sánchez

Finding a way to eliminate breast cancer and its metastasis in the brain

Miguel Castanho

Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnología

New immunotherapy drugs against lung cancer

João Barata

Immunotherapy to attack solid tumours

Sonia Guedán

New targets to slow the progression of bladder and pancreatic cancer

Juan Valcárcel