Health Marathon Final Seminar

The Health Marathon Final Seminar will be held tomorrow at 5pm in Room 1 of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, with the theme "10 years of raising awareness and funding for biomedical research in Portugal".

The Health Marathon 's mission is to help increase health literacy, raise awareness of prevention, early diagnosis and innovative treatments for diseases with extreme social impact and support biomedical research in Portugal through the Health Marathon Awards, a distinction supported and promoted by the FCT.

This seminar will be attended by the president of the FCT, Madalena Alves. The Health Marathon Awards for Infectious Diseases will be presented at the event, to Luísa Peixe, from the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Porto, who was awarded the prize in the senior category for her project "A new weapon to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance: characterization of a potential antibiotic obtained from a soil isolate", and to Pedro Pereira in the junior category, from ITQB-NOVA, for his work "Mechanisms of intracellular recognition of the superbug S. Aureus". Also noteworthy were the honorable mentions for this year's prize, for Cristina Cunha, from the ICVS- University of Minho, Katharina Willmann, from the Gulbenkian Institute of Science and Manuela Ferreira, from the University of Coimbra.

The Health Marathon Awards in Biomedical Research fund projects in the areas of Cancer, Diabetes, Autoimmune Diseases and Allergies, Cardiovascular Diseases, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Rare Diseases and Infectious Diseases. The 8 editions of the Awards have already received 19 prizes, 3 honorable mentions, 521 applications and 332 international jurors.