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”, in Milan, hosted by our partner Fondazione @humantechnopole.

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.

📍 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!

🌟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: https://t.co/WwWTu2ySi4 📅 Registration Deadline: July 8th, 2025 (5 pm, WET)

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!

Part 5 of our #MPS2025 series highlights Inês Silva, a PhD student at @NIMSB_NOVA, Portugal. She developed a microphysiological method to study dopaminergic injury and inflammation in Parkinson’s disease. --> https://t.co/7OLwRR4ESq @MPS_NOVA

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 --> https://t.co/BeMOWQFvuO @MPS_NOVA

🎥 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.

🎥 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. https://t.co/6NS8EBJj8u

🎉 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.

🎉 Introducing the NMS MPS_NOVA Labmeeting Series! On April 4th, 2025, we proudly launched the first session of the NMS MPS_NOVA Exploratory Research Projects Labmeetings .

🎉 Exciting Launch: ITQB NOVA MPS_NOVA Labmeeting Series! On March 17th, we kicked off the ITQB NOVA MPS_NOVA Twinning Exploratory Research Projects Labmeetings, a new initiative spotlighting the innovative early-stage research emerging from our vibrant community. #MPS_NOVA