Health Research Call for Proposals

Selected projects 2022

Cardiovascular and associated metabolic diseases

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    Prompt diagnosis of coronary heart disease to prevent early mortality

    Teresa Matias Correia (Teresa Correia)

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    New approaches to heart tissue regeneration after heart attack

    Rui Benedito

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    Can we grow older in a healthier way?

    Claudio Franco

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    Identifying new immune targets to treat cardiovascular disease

    Almudena R. Ramiro

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    Identifying new biomarkers for the progression of heart failure

    José Javier Fuster

Infectious diseases

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    A new approach to combating antimicrobial resistance

    João Morais Cabral

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    How to prevent the next outbreak of West Nile virus in Spain

    Jordi Figuerola

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    What factors predispose to invasive pulmonary aspergillosis?

    Cristina Cunha

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    How can we make vaccines effective for the entire population?

    Luis Graca

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    How diet impacts the immune system in early life

    Manuela Ferreira

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    Towards a better understanding of how the immune system makes tailored responses to different pathogens

    Nuria Martínez

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    Towards a better understanding of how the immune system responds to infections

    Esteban Ballestar

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    Towards a cure for long COVID

    Christian Brander

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    A platform to rapidly develop and produce new biopharmaceuticals to treat emerging viruses

    Cláudio Manuel Soares

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    A new technology to clean respiratory viruses from the air

    Miguel A. Bañares

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    Towards the development of a new generation of antibiotics to combat antimicrobial resistance

    Alfonso Jaramillo

Neuroscience

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    How is perception altered in schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric illnesses?

    Leopoldo Petreanu

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    Exploring the role of nucleolar stress in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Óscar Fernández-Capetillo

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    Towards a better understanding of synapse disruption

    Ira Milosevic

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    Towards a new treatment for autoimmune encephalitis

    Josep Dalmau

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    What influence does the environment have on cognitive abilities and their age-related decline?

    Ángel Barco

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    A new treatment to prevent age-related macular degeneration

    Miguel Seabra

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    Towards a new therapeutic nanotechnology to combat the progression of Parkinson's disease

    Marta Martínez-Vicente

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    Innovative neuromodulation strategies to treat brain diseases

    Paulo Aguiar

Oncology

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    A new approach to improve the prospects of cancer immunotherapies

    Fran Supek

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    Determining the impact of “jumping genes” on cancer proliferation

    José Tubio

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    What is the role of senescent cells in breast cancer progression?

    Joaquín Arribas

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    Understanding the role of new factors that cause genomic instability in cancer

    Andrés Aguilera

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    How do cancer cells modify the surrounding microenvironment to their advantage?

    Elías Campo

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    Towards more effective, less toxic treatments for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

    Vera Sofia Correia Martins

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    A new way to treat brain metastases of breast cancer

    Helena Florindo

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    A lymphoma-based organoid on a vascularised chip to advance in the design of personalised immunotherapies

    Patricia Perez-Galán