Science and Society

Core facilities and services

• 2 Cyclone (Kiube is the first of its kind in the world)

• PET and MRI imaging systems

  • Human
  • Animal

• Neurophysiology and neurostimulation equipments

• Multimodal imaging.

Detailed list:

• Human Siemens PRISMA 3Tesla MR Scanner
• Phillips PET/CT scanner
• Cyclotron 18/9 MeV IBA and Kiube IBA.
• High density EEG/ERP
• Transcraneal magnetic stimulation
• Functional near infrared imaging
• Brain computer interfaces up to 64 channels
• High resolution Eyetracking, MR compatible SMI and Eye Link , NordicNeurolab AS and AVOTEC 4621
• Virtual reality and motion capture
• Psychophysiological Biopac system - EEG, skin conductance, EMG recordings, all MR compatiblle
• MR compatible Accelerometry
• MR compatible olfactometers
• Human Visual electrophysiology
• Visual, auditory stimulation and response collection devices
• tDCS neurostimulation for Humans;
• Pre-Clinical Research – 9,4 Bruker Animal MR Scanner
• Bioluminescence/fluorescence imaging
• Animal PET
• Stereotaxy; tDCS set ups for animals; Electrophysiology;
• Animal Behavioral Tests (Open field; Morris Water Maze; Social Interaction Test, Vocalizations).

• Human Brain Imaging Functional, MR Spectroscopy, Structural, Connectivity studies.
• High density EEG/ERP Electrophysiological studies of brain function.
• Simultaneous EEG/fMRI Multimodal data acquisition and analysis Support in studies of normal cognition and disease
• Body imaging (heart, liver).
• Human PET Brain imaging using 11C and 18F compounds, 11C flumazenil for GABA A receptor imaging, 11C PIB for amyloid imaging and GA-68 Dotanoc for somastotatin receptor imaging.
• Radiopharmaceutical production Production of 11C and 18F based compounds for use in Neuroscience and systemic disorders.
• Psychophysiological studies Skin conductance, eye movement studies, EMG.
• Animal imaging in translational research studies using MR and PET prototype, and the use of a fluorescence/bioluminescence in vivo system.
• Protein Assays; DNA/RNA Assays; Genotyping.
• Data analysis Running of analysis pipelines of multimodal data.
• Data archiving Storage, annotation and retrieval.
• Training in data acquisition.
• Training in data analysis.

• Fraunhoffer Portugal Best Paper Award (2019 IEEE 6th Portuguese Meeting on Bioengineering (ENBENG)).
• Best Poster Award (Neuro-opthalmology) at the European Congress - European Association for Vision and Eye Research, EVER 2018, Nice, France
• Obstbaum Award, Best Original Research Article 2017, ASCRS and ESCRS (American and European Societies for Cataract and Refractive Surgery)
• Pfizer 2017 Clinical Research Award
• Prémio Edgar Cruz e Silva, GEED, Group Of Dementia And Aging Studies 2017

• Prize of the International Meeting of World Association For Sexual Health, 2017
• Award of the best work of the Portuguese Epilepsy Society 2017 (March) (1st Author: A. Sulaiman; Senior Authors : Miguel Castelo-Branco)
• FLAD Life Sciences Prize 2017, Luso-American Foundation for Development.
• Scientist of the Year Award – Press Award : As Beiras, 2017, Diário as Beiras
• ESCRS Clinical Research Award 2016 – European Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery (winner among about 70 European competitors)
• Diabetes Great Prize, The echo of type 2 diabetes: magnetic resonance as a strategy to detect glycation-induced adipose tissue microvascular lesions and preventing unhealthy obesity and type 2 diabetes Portuguese Society for Diabetes and Metabolism , 2016
• Best oral Communication, Basic Research, 12º Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, 2016
• Best poster communication EHDN (European Huntington Disease Network) 2016
• Prize for Managing Fast Growing Company- Prémio Empresa Gazela 2016 of the Central Region of Portugal, (ICNAS Produção)
• Annual Conference on Clinical Neurophysiology and NeuroImaging 2015 - Joint Meeting of ECNS, ISNIP and ISBET. Munich. * ISNIP Best Poster Award (Cecílio et al.)
• Honorable Mention Award Winner at ICVR 2015 - International Conference On Virtual Rehabilitation. Miguel Bernardes, Marco Simões, Fernando Barros, Miguel Castelo-Branco: A serious game with virtual reality for travel training with Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Santa Casa da Misericórdia 2015 Award (IBILI / ICNAS, coordinator of the Co-Host Team of IBILI / ICNAs - Principal Investigator: Francisco Ambrósio)
• Prize Queiroz Marinho – Best innovation work in Ophthalmology , Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Oftalmologia Dezembro 2015
• Prémio Bayer for Best Oral Communication, 2015, Annual Meeting of the Multiple Sclerosis Study Group of Portugal
• Best Oral Communication Neurosciences And Autoimmunity UMIB SUMMIT 2015, Porto – Portugal, 24, 25 September 2015.
• Prize Ubach Ferrão, Molecular Imaging of the Atheroma Card, Cardiology Meeting of the Central Region, October 2015
• Honorable mention (3rd prize) of the 9º Portuguese Meeting on Stroke 2015
• 1st Prize for Clinical Research Garcia de Orta 2015
• Principal Co-investigador of FLAD Life Science Award - 2015.
• Best Clinical Research Award from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, 2014, published in the journal Human Brain Mapping. Cover of the same Journal.
• Manuel D. Mello 2014 Grant sponsored by the group Mello Saúde, among 47 national proposals - "Neuroadaptation after cataract Surgery"
• Finalist (among the 3 best works in about 1000) of the World Molecular Imaging Congress, Seoul, Korea, September 17-20, 2014, alongside the universities of Stanford (USA) and Tuebingen ( Germany)
• Santa Casa da Misericórdia 2014 Award (CNC and IBILI / ICNAS, coordinator of the Co-Host Team of IBILI / ICNAs - Principal Investigator: Ana Cristina Rego, CNC)
• Award for Best Article in the Clinical Research Area of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra, 2013, Published in the journal Brain
• 2013 1st prize of the Portuguese League Against Epilepsy (LPCE) ("Modeling epileptic brain states using EEG spectral analysis and topographic mapping")
• 2013 Award for best oral presentation in neurosciences, Coimbra Research Meeting, April 2013
• Second prize on the Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2012 (PhD Thesis, G. Pires et al, 2012)
• Finalist at the International Annual BCI Award, 2012 (Direito et al.)
• “Best short paper (runner up)" International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies, 2012, Paris (Simões et al.)
• 2012 Certificate of Merit at the ESMRMB conference in Lisbon with the work entitled "Reduced GABA levels in the Human Visual Cortex challenges the over-inhibition model in Neurofibromatosis type 1". The abstract submitted was selected in the top 10 of 1200 submitted