2023 Selected projects

  • Deciphering the mechanisms of immune response initiation against pathogens

    Luís Ferreira Moita

    Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

    Health Call

  • New strategies to combat antibiotic resistance in gram-positive bacteria

    Didier Cabanes

    i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto - Associação

    Health Call

  • Study of the molecular mechanisms that regulate T-lymphocyte generation in the thymus and their implications in the immune response against infection

    Nuno L. Alves

    i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto - Associação

    Health Call

  • Deciphering Plasmodium biology to develop new malaria strategies

    Maria Mota

    Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes

    Health Call

  • What mutations make the monkeypox virus more efficient at transmitting between humans?

    Antonio Alcamí

    Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

    Health Call

  • Development of a new therapy to deactivate superbug antibiotic resistance

    Daniel Lopez Serrano

    Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

    Health Call

  • New approach to facilitate the transport of antibiotics across the cell membrane

    Javier Montenegro

    Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

    Health Call

  • New biological approach to curb the spread of mosquito-borne infectious diseases

    Juana Díez Antón

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

    Health Call

  • Portable device for the mass diagnosis of malaria

    Eva Baldrich

    Fundació Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron - Institut de Recerca (VHIR)

    Health Call

  • Advanced microscopy to decipher immunogenic cell death-mediated immune response activation

    Francisco Sánchez Madrid

    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

    Health Call

2022 selected projects

  • A new approach to combating antimicrobial resistance

    João Morais Cabral

    i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

    Health Call

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

    Jordi Figuerola

    Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain

    Health Call

  • What factors predispose to invasive pulmonary aspergillosis?

    Cristina Cunha

    Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e Saúde (ICVS), Escola de Medicina, Universidade de Minho, Portugal

    Health Call

  • How can we make vaccines effective for the entire population?

    Luis Graca

    Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal

    Health Call

  • How diet impacts the immune system in early life

    Manuela Ferreira

    Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

    Health Call

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

    Nuria Martínez

    Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain

    Health Call

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

    Esteban Ballestar

    Institut de Recerca contra la Leucèmia Josep Carreras, Spain

    Health Call

  • Towards a cure for long COVID

    Christian Brander

    IrsiCaixa, Institut de Recerca de la Sida la Caixa, Spain

    Health Call

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

    Cláudio Manuel Soares

    Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

    Health Call

  • A new technology to clean respiratory viruses from the air

    Miguel A. Bañares

    Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain

    Health Call

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

    Alfonso Jaramillo

    Instituto de Biología Integrativa de Sistemas (I2SysBio-CSIC), Spain

    Health Call

2021 Selected projects

  • The hiding places of malaria

    Hernando A. del Portillo

    Institut de Salut Global de Barcelona (ISGlobal), Spain

    Health Call

  • Drugs that target the host to treat tuberculosis

    Francisco José Roca Soler

    Universidad de Murcia, Spain

    Health Call

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

    Margarida Saraiva

    i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Portugal

    Health Call

  • Synthetic viruses to treat bacterial infections

    Joana Azeredo

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

    Universidade do Minho, Portugal

    Health Call

  • New drugs to treat candidiasis

    Toni Gabaldón

    Fundació Institut de Recerca Biomèdica (IRB Barcelona), Spain

    Health Call

  • Designing a new vaccine against malaria

    Miguel Prudêncio

    Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal

    Health Call

2020 selected projects

  • Attacking HIV reservoirs to eliminate the infection

    María José Buzón

    Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca, Spain

    Health Call

  • New strategies to treat sleeping sickness

    Luisa Figueiredo

    Instituto de Medicina Molecular Joao Lobo Antunes, Portugal

    Health Call

  • Understanding and blocking the adaptation mechanism of the malaria parasite in order to eradicate the disease

    Elena Gómez-Díaz

    Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López Neyra (CSIC), Spain

    Health Call

  • New approaches to combatting Chagas disease and leishmaniasis

    Olga Genilloud

    Centro de Excelencia en Investigación de Medicamentos Innovadores en Andalucía (Fundación MEDINA), Spain

    Health Call

  • The dialogue between neurons and defences opens the door to new therapies against infections

    Henrique Veiga-Fernandes

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

    Fundación Champalimaud, Portugal

    Health Call

2019 selected projects

  • Bacterial engineering for the treatment of pneumonia

    Luis Serrano Pubul

    Fundació Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG), Spain

    Health Call

  • New therapeutic strategy against the Ebola virus

    Carmen Gil

    Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CIB-CSIC), Spain

    Health Call

  • How to stop malaria transmission

    Alfred Cortés Closas

    Institut de Salut Global Barcelona (ISGlobal), Spain

    Health Call

  • Towards a better understanding of the front line of defenses

    Marc Veldhoen

    Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM), Portugal

    Health Call

  • How to prevent the outbreaks of Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika in Spain

    Frederic Bartumeus Ferré

    Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes. Consell Superior d’Investigacions Científiques (CEAB-CSIC), Spain

    Health Call

  • New strategies to combat sepsis

    Miguel Che Parreira Soares

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

    Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal

    Health Call

2018 selected projects

  • The language of immune defenses will contribute to the development of new vaccines

    Francisco Sánchez-Madrid

    Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Spain

    Health Call

  • Towards a universal vaccine to end chronic infectious diseases

    Andreas Meyerhans

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain

    Health Call

  • The liver could reveal malaria's achilles' heal

    Maria M. Mota

    Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) de Lisboa, Portugal

    Health Call

  • New strategies to combat Zika

    David Andreu Martínez

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain

    Health Call

  • How to avoid and improve the treatment of lung complications derived from allergic reactions

    Agostinho Albérico Rodrigues de Carvalho

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

    Universidade do Minho (UM), Portugal

    Health Call