The award ceremony for the Maria de Sousa Award 3rd edition - 2023 will take place on 16 November 2023, at 6 p.m., in Lisbon, and will be held in a hybrid format, so that everyone can watch it online via Público's channels (YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn) with no prior registration required.
At the event, chaired by the Minister of Science, Technology, and Higher Education, five young Portuguese researchers will take to the stage to receive the Award created in partnership with the Portuguese Medical Association and the BIAL Foundation.
The Maria de Sousa Award was launched in 2020 to honour the memory of the physician and great researcher Maria de Sousa, and to support young Portuguese scientific researchers, aged 35 or under, with scientific projects in the area of Health Sciences, including a mandatory internship in an international center of excellence.
In this third edition of the Award, the Jury is once again chaired by neuroscientist Rui Costa and includes also researchers who were very close to Maria de Sousa: Maria do Carmo Fonseca, president of the Institute of Molecular Medicine (iMM) of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon; Graça Porto, group leader for research on the biology of iron at the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health Sciences (i3S) of the University of Porto; Miguel Castelo-Branco, director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research (CIBIT) at the University of Coimbra; and Joana Palha, full professor at the School of Medicine of the University of Minho.
