António Sousa Pereira, elected Rector of the University of Porto, is interviewed by Porto Canal

António Sousa Pereira, MD, PhD and PhD Researcher of the Immunology of Infection research group of UMIB, and recently elected the new Rector of the University of Porto, was invited for a interview by Porto Canal, regarding the new upcoming challenges of his new position at the University.

Today we share his interview.

ICBAS celebrate the memory of Prof. Nuno Grande!

Prof. Dr. Nuno Grande, one of the founding fathers of ICBAS and UMIB, was postumously homage in a session entitled "ICBAS and the Prof. Dr. Nuno Grande". This session was held in the program of the 3^rd Module of the 2^nd Open Seminars on Medicine History, on the past 16^th of May 2018.

Here you can check a photo gallery of this notable event.

Prof. Dr. Mariana Monteiro participates in a Press Conference about Obesity!

The National Day for the Fight Against Obesity was celebrated on the 19^th May. One of the activities promoted by the Portuguese Society for the Study of Diabetes to mark this ephemeris, was a press conference to which Prof. Dr. Mariana P. Monteiro, PhD researcher of the Endocrine, Cardiovascular & Metabolic Research group and Coordinator of UMIB, was invited to contribute with her expertise on the matter.

Hospital de Santo António starts an innovative technique against Chronic Lung Hypertension!

Professor Doutor Henrique Cyrne de Carvalho, Director of Haemodynamics Laboratory of the Centro Hospitalar do Porto and PhD researcher of the Endocrine, Cardiovascular & Metabolic Research group, explains how the Hospital de Santo António and the Centro Hospitalar do Porto have implemented an innovative technique to increase the quality of life of the patients suffering from chronic thromboembolic lung hypertension.