Does your dog have social skills?

A study suggests that viewing the owner’s face works as a positive social reinforcement for dogs. Learn more about this and other surprising results about “man’s best friend”.

Prof. Maria de Sousa

BIAL Foundation expresses profound sorrow on the passing of Prof. Maria de Sousa, a unique figure in science worldwide, who contributed to the scientific and academic development in Portugal in a remarkable way.

Paper published in journal Brain Research

In the scope of research projects “207/14 - The role of astrocytes in complex cognitive processing” and “37/18 - Decoding the neuron-astrocyte dialogue that supports cognitive processing. supported by the BIAL Foundation, the research team has published the review paper Astrocyte signaling impacts the effects of human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells secretome application into the hippocampus: A proliferation and morphometrical analysis on astrocytic cell populations in the journal Brain Research.

Cancer immunotherapy research wins the first edition of the new BIAL Foundation prize, worth 300,000 Euros

A research project led by the immunologist Caetano Reis e Sousa, who leads the Francis Crick Institute's Immunobiology Laboratory in London, has won the first edition of the BIAL Award in Biomedicine. The prize was established by the BIAL Foundation with a value of 300,000 euros and recognises biomedical findings of outstanding importance.