The Universidade NOVA de Lisboa invites applications for a full time position as Director of the Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical.
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New test allows to identify Tuberculosis multi-resistances
In 2012, they received the Santander Totta / NOVA University Scientific Merit Award for developing a rapid and cheaper test to diagnosis tuberculosis, based on gold nanoparticles. In January, Pedro Viana Baptista, of Faculdade de Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), and Miguel Viveiros, of the IHMT, published an article showing that, using the same method, and […]
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Democratize the access to treatment for Chagas Disease
A team from the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) and another from IHMT joined with the objective of developing a new formulation – less toxic and more effective – of Benznidazole, a drug used to combat Chagas disease, a neglected disease caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi which affects seven to eight million people worldwide, particularly […]
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