Final Seminar Health Marathon

The Final Health Marathon Seminar will take place tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. in Room 1 of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, with the theme "10 years of raising awareness and funding biomedical research in Portugal."

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

This seminar will be attended by the president of FCT, Madalena Alves. At this event, the Health Marathon Awards for Infectious Diseases will be presented to Luísa Peixe, from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto, who will receive the senior award 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, with his work "Mechanisms of intracellular recognition of the superbug S. Aureus." Also noteworthy are the honorable mentions in this year's award for Cristina Cunha, from 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 eight editions of the Awards have already seen 19 winners, three honorable mentions, 521 applications, and 332 international judges.