🎉 News from #MPS_NOVA!
Cristina Demelas and Daniel Crispim from NOVA Medical School have been awarded a Staff Exchange opportunity Human Technopole as part of the MPS_NOVA Twinning project!
👏 Join us in congratulating Cristina and Daniel in the comments!
🌟 7th Webinar in the #MPS_NOVA Virtual Seminar Series!
🎙️ Speakers:
Krzysztof Wrzesinski, CelVivo ApS
Carina Valente, @itqbnova.bsky.social
📅 February 5th, 2026, 2 PM (WET)
💻 Zoom
👉 forms.gle/XSSShSMHLZ9q...
📅 Register until February 1st, 2026 (5 pm)
See you there! 🚀
News from #MPS_NOVA! 🎉
Daniel Pereira, Isabella Ramella Gal e Mariana Pereira from
@itqbnova.bsky.social, iBET and NOVA Medical School have been awarded a Staff Exchange at @humantechnopole.bsky.social as part of our Twinning project!
👏 Join us in congratulating them in the comments!
🎉 Concluding the 2nd Edition of Training Workshop 1
“NEW IN VITRO MODELS: Alternatives to Animal Models in Research”, dedicated to exploring innovative in vitro systems as powerful alternatives to traditional animal models.
🚀 Just completed: MPS_NOVA Staff Exchange at MDC, Berlin
From 3–11 November, the MPS_NOVA Twinning project held its SE3 - Methods to Characterize Stem Cells and Organoids hosted by our partner Max Delbrück Center and expertly organized and facilitated by Agnieszka Rybak-Wolf and Stefan Kempa.
🌟 Join Us for the 6th Webinar in the MPS_NOVA Virtual Seminar Series this December! 🌟
- Gut-on-Chip for anaerobic microbiota–host communication studies
- Reconstructed skin models for pigmentation and cutaneous melanoma research
📅 December 4th, 2025, 2 PM (WET)
👉 Register here: lnkd.in/dkKrmtBb
🚀 New Video Release!
We are proud to share an interview with Sarela García Santamarina, Coordinator of MPS_NOVA Twinning project led by ITQB NOVA in collaboration with NOVA Medical School, dedicated to strengthening MicroPhysiological Systems research capacity in Portugal.
youtu.be/82OqOWmID3s
🌍 Strengthening collaboration and communication at hashtag#MPS_NOVA!
We closed this vibrant month of October with a Staff Exchange and institutional alignment mission at Human Technopole in Milan, one of our key partners in the MPS_NOVA EU Twinning project.
On October 16–17, we gathered at NOVA Medical School - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas in Lisbon for our Interim Meeting — two days of scientific exchange, networking, and forward-looking discussions. A perfect moment to take stock, celebrate progress, and plan the challenges ahead.
On October 16–17, we gathered at NOVA Medical School - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas in Lisbon for our Interim Meeting - two days of scientific exchange, networking, and forward-looking discussions. A perfect moment to take stock, celebrate progress, and plan the challenges ahead.
🔬 October was an intense and inspiring month for MPS_NOVA!
We were thrilled to host the 2nd edition of our training workshop on Advanced Organ-on-Chip & Advanced Microscopy, bringing together researchers and students to strengthen technical skills and exchange knowledge across disciplines.
We are thrilled to highlight the participation of Inês Fonseca from NOVA Medical School - Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, who presented a flash talk on her poster titled: “Uncovering the effect of ultraviolet radiation on melanin processing in keratinocytes.”
We are delighted to announce that Ana Rita Garcia from
NIMSB_NOVA and Catarina Baptista from NOVA Medical School have been awarded a Staff Exchange opportunity, "Organoids Characterization” at Fondazione Human Technopole as part of the MPS_NOVA Twinning project!
Last Friday, the MPS_NOVA Twinning project proudly joined the European Researchers’ Night at Marina de Oeiras, an inspiring event that brought science closer to society. 🌍🔬
This month, Joana Cavadas, PhD student at ITQB NOVA, had the exciting opportunity to attend the EMBO | EMBL Symposium: The Human Microbiome.
Joana presented her poster titled:
“An intestine-on-chip model to study the role of gut microbiota in host metal homeostasis” 🧬✨
Last month, Ana Botelho, PhD student at ITQB NOVA, participated in the Gordon Research Conference on Staphylococcal Diseases. She presented a poster entitled ‘Divergent host interaction profiles of the two major S. epidermidis lineages during skin colonization’.
On 22-24 July, #MPS_NOVA held the Training Workshop Pluripotent Stem Cell Basics, hosted by our partner #HumanTechnopole.
The event brought together researchers and students for three intensive days of theoretical and hands-on training on the cultivation and preservation of hPSCs.
The MPS_NOVA EU Twinning project is pleased to announce the successful completion of our first Staff Exchange “Reprogramming Somatic Cells into Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (hiPSCs)” — hosted by Giovanni Faga group at Human Technopole.
🌟Join Us for the 4th Webinar of the #MPS_NOVA
On July 10th will feature two distinguished speakers at the forefront of advanced therapeutic development using organoids.
👉 Registration here: lnkd.in/dMKs5-Ku
📅 Registration Deadline: July 8th, 2025 (5 pm, WET)
📍 Collaboration in Action at ITQB NOVA
On May 26th, the MPS_NOVA EU Twinning project had the pleasure of welcoming colleagues from the Innovation and Funding Offices of the Max Delbrück Center, Dr. Nevine Shalaby and Dr. Seda Çöl Arslan, for a highly productive meeting.
On May 26th we hosted the #MPS_NOVA training workshop on "Strategy in R&I Management", with facilitators from our partner institution, the Max Delbrück Center.
🔬✨ MPS_NOVA at the @Oeiras Valley Science Festival! ✨
On May 23, the MPS_NOVA Twinning Project joined the ITQB NOVA stand at the Oeiras Valley Science Festival in Taguspark — a true “laboratory-outside-the-laboratory” experience!
On the 16th and 17th of June, #MPS_NOVA held its fifth training workshop — “Stem Cells, Organoids, and Methods to Characterize Them” — hosted by our partners at Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine.
🎉 We are delighted to announce that Maria Beatriz Felgueiras and Quélia Ribeiro from NOVA Medical School have been awarded a Staff Exchange on Methods to Characterize Stem Cells and Organoids at Max Delbrück Center as part of the MPS_NOVA Twinning project!
🎥 Dynamic42 GmbH interviewed Sarela García Santamarina, #MPS_NOVA Coordinator, during the recent MPS World Summit 2025.
Watch the video to hear her insights on the goals and achievements of the MPS_NOVA Twinning Project.
Part 5 of our #MPS2025 series highlights Inês Silva, a PhD student at NOVA Institute, Portugal. She developed a microphysiological method to study dopaminergic injury and inflammation in Parkinson’s disease. --> zurl.co/Ow9gg
Part 6 of our #MPS2025 series: Meet Daniela Marques, PhD student at @NIMSB_NOVA, Portugal. She develops a microglia crosstalk MPS model of the blood-brain barrier to explore polyphenol metabolites' potential --> zurl.co/Ad5dv
Part 7 of our #MPS2025 interview series highlights Adrian Feile, a PhD student at University Hospital Jena. He explores how DPO-dependent quorum sensing affects Vibrio cholerae biofilm behavior in a 3D intestine-on-chip model --> zurl.co/WJraJ
🎥 A new MPS_NOVA Virtual Seminar is now on YouTube!
🎙️ Raquel Portela (ITQB NOVA) 📢 Modelling Bacterial Pneumonia Infection Dynamics in Lung-on-chip: A Comparative Study of Legionella pneumophila and Staphylococcus aureus.
#ITQB #MPS_NOVA #Research #Innovation
🎉 We’re proud to see our hashtag#MPS_NOVA Twinning Conference Attendance Fellowship supporting young researchers at top international events!
Luana Macedo presented her work on extracellular vesicles in inter-organ communication at the ISEV 2025 Annual Meeting in Vienna.
#ISEV2025 #NMS #Innovation
