Prizes Supported by FCT

Maratona da Saúde Prizes 2022 - Infectious Diseases Research

Prémios Maratona da Saúde 2022 - Investigação em Doenças Infecciosas

Winners of the 2022 edition

Luísa Peixe
Prémio Maratona da Saúde | Janssen, Categoria Sénior
UCIBIO_REQUIMTE. Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto, Porto
Projeto: Uma nova arma para combater a ameaça crescente da resistência antimicrobiana: caracterização de um potencial antibiótico obtido de um isolado do solo

Pedro Matos Pereira
Prémio Maratona da Saúde, Categoria Júnior
Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB) da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras
Projeto: Mecanismos de reconhecimento intracelular da superbactéria S. aureus.

Menções Honrosas Maratona da Saúde

Cristina Cunha
ICVS | Universidade do Minho
Projeto: O microbioma pulmonar como alvo terapêutico em doenças fúngicas respiratórias.

Manuela Ferreira
CNC | Universidade de Coimbra
Projeto: Desvendando o papel de micronutrientes nos linfócitos epiteliais do intestino em início de vida.

Katharina Willmann
IGC | Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Projeto: Tratamento farmacológico da sépsis com base na regulação da função mitocondrial.

Vision and Objectives

The FCT and the Maratona da Saúde Associação (MdS) intend, through the 2022 edition of the Maratona da Saúde Awards, to support Infectious Diseases Research. The two best scientific research projects in the area of Infectious Diseases to be developed in Portugal will be distinguished.

Important Documents

Important Dates

Applications must be submitted between 17 December 2021 and and 17 Janueary 2022 (17h - Lisbon time).

The Protocol between the MdS and the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, IP (FCT), signed in September 2014, provides for FCT support in the application process, including the definition of the composition of the jury, as well as the procedures for receiving and submitting applications to the jury. The funding to be awarded to the selected research projects comes mainly from individual donations raised during the MdS television show, broadcasted by RTP. In the 8th edition of Maratona da Saúde, Janssen was one of the main partners and it will associate its name to one of the awards.

Financing and duration

The two best projects presented will be awarded the unit amount of € 20,000 (twenty thousand euros), one for each category (Junior and Senior), for a maximum period of two years, starting between June and December 2022.

Recipients and Eligibility

This call is open for researchers and/or medical doctors, Portuguese or foreign, who have completed their doctoral studies for less than ten years (Junior Category) and for more than ten years (Senior Category) at the date of the call opening.

Applications that include partnerships between research institutions based in Portugal and hospitals or other health institutions, national or foreign, are encouraged.

Application Submissions

Applications must be submitted by completing the application form in English, accompanied by the curriculum vitae of the researcher responsible (1 page A4, in English), which can be accessed here.

Application deadline

Applications must be submitted between 17th December 2021 and 17th January 2022 (17h - Lisbon time).

Evaluation and selection of applications

The evaluation of the applications is carried out by a jury proposed by the FCT, made up of scientists of recognized international merit in the field of biomedicine.

After ranking the best candidates of the competition, the MdS Scientific Council ratifies the decision of the jury and informs the board of MdS, which will approve the winners according to the recommendations obtained.