The Basinnov Innovation Award 2024 was recently awarded to "TaMuK - Targeting Mutated KRAS". I'm a proud member (BioISI) of this project led by Andreia Valente (Centro de Química Estrutural ). This remarkable achievement was now highlighted by CIÊNCIAS ULisboa ciencias.ulisboa.pt/pt/noticia/18-…

Adilson Freitas, Karina Shimizu, José Nuno Lopes, and Benilde Saramago's article has been selected to be featured on the cover of the Special Issue for the COIL-9 conference in the field of ionic liquids, published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

O projeto HidroQapa, desenvolvido por Frederico Mauritty e Madalena Filipe, com a orientação de Ana Paula Ribeiro, Luísa Margarida Martins e Ana Ferraria, integra agora o programa BlueBio Value Ideation e foi o vencedor da edição de 2024 do Youth Start-Up Competition (YSC)🚀

Na Semana da Ciência e Tecnologia, o IST promoveu a iniciativa "Engenharia e Ciência vão à Escola".Marta Alves e Rui Sampaio visitaram as escolas básicas Gomes Freire de Andrade e O Leão de Arroios, onde apresentaram "Como Transformar as Plantas em Baterias, e "Limpar o Ambiente"

Last week, Bruna Soares was awarded the Best Flash Presentation at the 7th Edition of the Iberoamerican Meeting on Ionic Liquids (IMIL 2024) at the Universidade de Coimbra 🎖️

Alexandra Antunes participated in a Working Group at the International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World Health Organization in Lyon, France, from November 5-12, 2024, to finalize the evaluation of the carcinogenicity of hydrochlorothiazide, voriconazole, and tacrolimus.

Hugo Marques received an honorable mention for best poster and Lois Morandeira won the award for best flash presentation at the 7th Edition of the Iberoamerican Meeting on Ionic Liquids (IMIL 2024), held at the University of Coimbra from November 20 to 22, 2024.

📣 On December 18 we'll have a Chemforum talk by Marina Kirillova from CQE. #Chemforum #CQELisboa

From Nov 9th to Dec 1st, PhD student Gustavo Maia conducted part of his research at the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, USA, studying the effects of mechanochemistry on the soluble organic molecules (SOM) of extraterrestrial samples 🪐

Sofia Aparício was recently awarded Prémio Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, an award that recognizes young female engineers that graduated from Instituto Superior Técnico In November, Sofia was also awarded the First Honorable Mention from Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais award for master thesis

Projeto HidroQapa por Frederico Mauritty e Madalena de Castro, antigos alunos do Colégio Valsassina, em colaboração com Ana Ribeiro, Luísa Martins e Ana Ferraria do IST, ganha o 1º Prémio Inovação em Saúde – Todos pela Sustentabilidade, na categoria de Sustentabilidade Ambiental

🎉 New issue, Molecules, Volume 29, Issue 23 (December-1 2024), is out now! 🔗 Issue link: brnw.ch/21wPr1Q 🖼️ Cover paper: brnw.ch/21wPr1P by Petrosian et al. (Centro de Química Estrutural, Portugal) 📌 #scorpionate_complexes #metal_based_drugs #cytotoxicity

Interested in a postdoc position related to mechanochemistry? We are hiring! Impactive IST-ID Clara Gomes Mafalda Sarraguça TDuarteCryst Centro de Química Estrutural LAQV-FCTNOVA LAQV REQUIMTE euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/303711

The 22nd International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Utilization (ICCDU 2025) will be hostedin Lisbon, Portugal, on June 23-27, 2025 and call for abstracts is open until 17th January. More information: iccdu2025.events.chemistry.pt

📢 Today, January 15, we'll have a Chemforum talk by Tiankun Zhao from Lanzhou University of Technology (China).

Pedro Mendes, CQE researcher and Professor at DEQIST / Instituto Superior Técnico, was appointed member of the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Engineering Au, the flagship ACS journal reporting chemical engineering, applied chemistry, and energy research applied to processes and products.

Bruno Sena da Fonseca has been appointed as an Expert Member of the International Scientific Committee for Stone (ISCS) under the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS).

Filipa Ribeiro, a full professor at DEQ and a researcher at CQE, has been honored with the Portugal-France Chemistry Bilateral Award 2024 (Prémio Luso-Francês 2024).