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Miguel Seabra received the Distinguished Service Medal - Gold for the "mark he makes on scientific research".

Cecília Arraiano, Coordinating Researcher at the Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology (ITQB), is the first Portuguese scientist to be elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.

The 2nd edition of the award honored researcher Sandra Morais Cardoso, for research funded by the FCT, which enabled new therapeutic possibilities for the disease to be identified.

Researchers from Universidade Nova de Lisboa identified Torvosaurus gurneyi, thus far considered the largest terrestrial predator in Europe.

Researchers from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa publish a study on Torvosaurus gurneyi, the largest predator discovered in Europe to date.

Portugal is part of the report Promoting Research Excellence: New Approaches to Funding, which looks at Research Excellence Initiatives as a means of targeting and funding R&D by governments.

The prize distinguishes the best scientific paper published by a researcher at a Portuguese institution, under the 2013 topic "The brain: from molecules to circuits".

The article published by the researcher in the journal ACS Nano received the award under the theme of the 2013 edition - "The brain: from molecules to circuits".

The award ceremony takes place on March 20 and brings Hasok Chang to Lisbon for a workshop and conference in the area.

The autonomous region has a Call for post-doctoral Studentships in the areas of Exact Sciences and Engineering and Social Sciences and Humanities, until February 28.

A group of researchers from the Multidisciplinary Center for Astrophysics has shown that the formation of black holes is an exception and not the rule. One of the researchers, Paolo Pani, is an FCT researcher.

Agreement between FCT and the European Science Foundation ensures the participation of the international organization in an evaluation exercise involving almost the entire national scientific community.