New R&D@USA grantees first semester 2023

Applicants for the grants have already been selected R&D@USA.Starting this month, 15 Master’s, PhD and Junior Researchers selected by FLAD will be doing research internships in the USA related to innovative scientific or technological topics.

Congratulations to the 15 new FLAD grantees! Those selected will have the opportunity to conduct research at academic and scientific institutions in various locations in the US.

Find out who the selected students of the first semester of 2023 are and where they will be going in the USA:

• Ana Gomes (PhD student, Aquaculture) – MARE – Instituto Politécnico de Leiria/University of Rhode Island;
• Ana Marques (Post-Doctoral Researcher, Biology and Genetics) – CESAM & Departamento de Biologia – Universidade de Aveiro/Developmental & Molecular Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine;
• Ana Matilde Silvano (MSc Student, Bioengineering) – Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa/Center for Regenerative Biotherapeutics, Mayo Clinic;
• Ana Rita Varela (MSc Student, Bioengineering) – Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa/Center for Regenerative Biotherapeutics, Mayo Clinic;
• Camila Lobo (PhD student, Philosophy) – Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – Universidade Nova de Lisboa/Philosophy Department, The New School for Social Research;
• Carlos Barreto (PhD Student, Health Sciences) – CNC – Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular – Universidade de Coimbra/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai;
• Catarina Azevedo (PhD Student, Health Sciences) – i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde – Universidade do Porto/Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh;
• David Carrageta (PhD student, Biomedical Sciences) – UMIB – Unit for Multidisciplinary Research in Biomedicine, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS) – Universidade do Porto/Houston Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute;
• Gonçalo Valente (PhD student, Chemistry) – CICECO – Universidade de Aveiro/Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
• Joana Pinheiro (PhD Student, Health Sciences) – Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS) – Universidade do Minho/The Ben May Department for Cancer Research, The University of Chicago;
• Jorge Santos (PhD student, Biomedical Engineering) – Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa/Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University;
• Maria Rita dos Santos (Master’s student, Communication Sciences) – Faculdade Ciências Humanas – Universidade Católica Portuguesa/Boston College;
• Maria Vinhas Monteiro (PhD student, Biotechnology) – CICECO/Aveiro Institute of Materials – Universidade de Aveiro/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School – Cambridge, MA;
• Martina Bartolini (PhD student, Marine Sciences) – Departamento de Oceanografia e Pescas/OKEANOS – Universidade dos Açores/Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of California;
• Sara Gamelas (PhD student, Chemistry) – LAQV/REQUIMTE – Universidade de Aveiro/Department of Radiology, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine.

Congratulations! And good job!