Funding

“You should RULE your money, Money shouldn't RULE your Life.” - Hyacil Han

Project Grants as Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI:

  • oriPDAC4diagTreat – "The cell of origin of PDAC: novel opportunities for the early diagnosis and treatment of PDAC" - La Caixa, Total Funding 1M€. Team composed by Elisa Espinet (IDIBELL), Meritxell Rovira (IDIBELL), Ana Rita Grosso (UCIBIO) and Patricia Sancho (IIS Aragón). (2023-2026)
  • X_HUMAN – "Dissecting the molecular mechanisms of X-chromosome inactivation using human embryonic stem cells" - FCT-MTES, Unit Funding 100.000€. Ana Rita Grosso (co-PI) (2022-2025)
  • OncoHIT – “Targeting Intra-Tumor heterogeneity as a promising therapeutic strategy for cancer” – FCT-MTES, Total and Unit Funding 239.478€. Ana Rita Grosso (PI) (2018-2022)
  • pseudoT – “Decoding pseudogene transcriptional regulation during cell differentiation” – FCT-MCTES, Total and Unit Funding:  50.000€. Ana Rita Grosso (PI) (2015-2019) 
 

Project Grants as partner:

  • "NANOHEAT – Gold nanoconjugates for improved photothermal ablation of colorectal cancer" - FCT-MCTES, Pedro Viana-Baptista (PI) (2023-2026)
  • "Innovative approaches for pancreatic cancer: Decoding and manipulating immune response to short sialylated O-glycans" - FCT-MCTES, Paula Videira (PI) (2023-2026)
  • "Ovarian Cancer Avatars for personalized therapy, a combination of in vivo & ex-vivo models to guarantee a test for every patient" – FCT-MCTES, Rita Fior (PI) (2022-2024)
  • "Unveiling the signatures of convergent evolution in bee-associated microorganisms: a comparative multi-omics approach" – FCT-MCTES, Carla Gonçalves (PI) (2022-2024)
  • ExtremeOceans – "Unravelling evolutionary physiology landscapes of coastal marine fauna under extreme temperatures using a multi-layer Systems Biology approach" – CT-MCTES, Carolina Madeira (PI) (2021-2023)
  • "Harnessing comparative genomics to understand the role of horizontal acquired genes in the evolution of yeast metabolism" – FCT-MCTES,  Paula Gonçalves (PI) (2021-2023)
  • MARVEN – "The Portuguese biotechnological database for marine animal venoms and toxins" – Blue Fund, Pedro M. Costa (PI) (2019-2022)
 

Individual Grants/Fellowships:

  • Paulo Caldas – Marie-Curie PostDoc Fellowship (EC Funding, 2022-2024)
  • Ana Rita Grosso – Individual FCT-MCTES Grant for Stimulus of Scientific Employment (2019-2025)
  • Ana Rita Grosso – Investigador FCT (FCT-MCTES, 2015-2019)