Maria de Sousa Award2021 - 1st Edition

Winners

The Maria de Sousa Award - 1st edition 2021 was delivered on the 24th November 2021 to five Portuguese researchers, in a ceremony that took place at Teatro Thalia, in Lisbon, and was presided by Prime Minister António Costa.

Andreia Pereira

“BioTribo – Exploring biomaterials as triboelectric nanogenerators for cardiovascular applications”

Pedro Marques

“The role of CCL2 and IL-8 in the microenvironment of pituitary neuroendocrine tumors: relationship with tumoral aggressiveness and their diagnostic-therapeutic usefulness”

Mariana Osswald

“How to balance actomyosin-dependent forces to preserve epithelial tissue integrity”

Sara Silva Pereira

“The impact of parasite sequestration in trypanosomiasis severity”

Daniela Freitas

"Glycosylation of gastric cancer extracellular vesicles: its impact in cancer intercellular communication and its potential for biomarker discovery”

Jury

President
Rui Costa
Members
Maria do Carmo Fonseca
Miguel Castelo-Branco
Joana Palha
Graça Porto
Applications received
84

Find out more about the awarded works here.

Watch the Tribute Video to Prof. Maria de Sousa here.

Watch the awards ceremony here (Portuguese only) and watch the best of video below (Portuguese only).

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