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Financiamento <strong>de</strong> Projetos e Prémios Científicos<br />

Project Grants and Scientific Prizes<br />

FINANCIAMENTO<br />

DE PROJETOS<br />

E PRÉMIOS<br />

PROJECT GRANTS AND PRIZES<br />

“Com este financiamento inicial da Fundação Bill &<br />

Melinda Gates iremos testar uma possível forma <strong>de</strong><br />

bloquear a infecção pelo parasita que causa a malária.<br />

O que <strong>de</strong>scobrirmos po<strong>de</strong>rá servir <strong>de</strong> base a novas<br />

terapias mais acessíveis para combater os efeitos<br />

graves que a infeção com Plasmodium provoca em<br />

crianças. Esperamos po<strong>de</strong>r concretizar estas aplicações<br />

durante a segunda fase <strong>de</strong> financiamento.”<br />

‘This initial funding provi<strong>de</strong>d by <strong>the</strong> Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation<br />

will allow us to put our hypo<strong>the</strong>sis of an alternative form to<br />

block malaria infection to <strong>the</strong> test. Our findings may allow <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>de</strong>velopment of affordable <strong>the</strong>rapeutic approaches to prevent<br />

<strong>the</strong> often lethal outcomes of Plasmodium infection in young<br />

children, possibly during <strong>the</strong> second period of <strong>the</strong> grant.”<br />

Miguel Soares<br />

Coor<strong>de</strong>nador do Laboratório <strong>de</strong> Inflamação do IGC, premiado pela<br />

Fundação Bill & Melinda Gates, no âmbito do programa Grand Challenges<br />

Exploration.<br />

Principal Investigator of <strong>the</strong> Inflammation Laboratory at <strong>the</strong> IGC,<br />

awar<strong>de</strong>d with a Grand Challenges Exploration Grant of <strong>the</strong> Bill & Melinda<br />

Gates Foundation.<br />

CIENTISTAS<br />

do<br />

<strong>Instituto</strong> <strong>Gulbenkian</strong> <strong>de</strong> Ciência<br />

ENTRE OS<br />

jovens<br />

LÍDERES<br />

CIENTÍFICOS<br />

mais<br />

Promissores<br />

Da<br />

Europa<br />

IGC researchers have established<br />

<strong>the</strong>mselves amongst <strong>the</strong> most talented<br />

young group lea<strong>de</strong>rs in Europe.

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