This website was discontinued on 20/12/2022. Visit the new website at www.fct.pt.

Skip nav

R&D Projects

Confirmed projects database queries

The information may be unavailable due to the results not being approved or confirmed. In particular, when a call includes regions where projects are cofunded by EC funds and others where that is not the case, confirmation or approval may be not simultaneous.

Call for Funding of Research and Development Projects in all Scientific Domains - 2008

Biological Engineering and Biotechnology - Biotechnology

    Painel de Avaliação de Engenharia Biológica e Biotecnologia - 2008
  • Nic D. Lindley
  • Juan Manuel Lema
  • John Michael Woodley
  • Mohamed Al-Rubeai
  • John Villadsen
  • Manuel Cánovas
PTDC/EBB-BIO/098111/2008

Optimizing carbohydrate utilization in farmed sea-bass through metabolic profiling. John Griffith Jones, Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNBC/UC). €179,000.

PTDC/EBB-BIO/098352/2008

Exploiting the type II phosphomannose isomerase BceAJ as a new target for the development of new antimicrobials and for biotechnological applications. Jorge Humberto Gomes Leitão, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa). €115,632.

PTDC/EBB-BIO/098961/2008

Innovative strategies for the purification of biopharmaceuticals: Magnetic Nanoparticles applied to High-Gradient-Magnetic-Separation and Aqueous-Two-Phase-Systems. Ana Cecília Afonso Roque, Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL). €170,000.

PTDC/EBB-BIO/098983/2008

Transgeneration evaluation of rice transcriptomic/proteomic alterations caused by genetic modifications and other stresses. Rita Batista, Pró-INSA, Associação para a Promoção da Investigação em Saúde (Pró-INSA/INSARJ). €185,000.

PTDC/EBB-BIO/099268/2008

Exploring a novel functional marker candidate for efficient somatic embryogenesis in Daucus carota L.. Birgit Arnholdt-Schmitt, Universidade de Évora (UE). €140,000.

PTDC/EBB-BIO/099672/2008

Development of siRNA-loaded nanoparticles to circumvent chemoresistance in cancer stem cells. Gabriela Martinho de Almeida, Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular (IPATIMUP/UP). €165,000.

PTDC/EBB-BIO/100326/2008

Bacterial protein azurin as a new candidate drug to treat poor-prognosis breast cancer. Arsénio Carmo Sales Mendes Fialho, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa). €177,000.

PTDC/EBB-BIO/100491/2008

Using functional genomics to improve mammalian cells for virus based biopharmaceuticals manufacture. Ana Sofia de Sousa Valente Coroadinha, Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET). €195,000.

PTDC/EBB-BIO/100507/2008

Lost in Septation: Characterization of a novel regulatory pathway of cell division and morphology centered on the bolA gene. Cecilia Maria Pais de Faria de Andrade Arraiano, ITQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA/UNL). €149,000.

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101088/2008

Exploring human embryonic stem cell fate using 3-D cellular microarrays. Maria Margarida Diogo, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST/ULisboa). €114,000.

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101237/2008

The use of nanobiomaterials for structural and funcional protection of human phenylalanine hydroxylase: towards a new approach to phenylketonuria treatment. António José Leitão das Neves Almeida, Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade de Lisboa (FF/ULisboa). €124,000.

PTDC/EBB-BIO/101992/2008

Bioseparation by Solvent-Gradient, Simulated Countercurrent Chromatography. José Paulo Barbosa Mota, Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL). €95,947.

PTDC/EBB-BIO/102163/2008

Engineered biomimetics for large-scale enrichment of phosphoproteins. Ana Cecília Afonso Roque, Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FFCT/FCT/UNL). €153,000.

PTDC/EBB-BIO/102649/2008

Retroviral like particles: improving potential as candidate vaccines for Hepatitis C. Manuel José Teixeira Carrondo, Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (IBET). €156,000.

PTDC/EBB-BIO/102863/2008

SYNBIOBACTHER - Synthetic biology approaches to engineer "therapeutic" bacteria. Ligia Raquel Marona Rodrigues, Universidade do Minho (UM). €140,000.

PTDC/EBB-BIO/104940/2008

Filmstart - Initial conditions controlling the onset of biofilms. Filipe José Menezes Mergulhão, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FE/UP). €115,000.

PTDC/EBB-BIO/104980/2008

BIOMYR: Towards the metabolic engineering of beta-myrcene pathway of Pseudomonas sp. M1: functional genomics and structural biochemistry approaches. Pedro Miguel Santos, Universidade do Minho (UM). €188,000.

PTDC/EBB-BIO/108269/2008

Improving Debaromyces hansenii biotechnological potential by understanding the impact of CUG mistranslation in stress tolerance. Isabel M Miranda, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (FM/UP). €100,000.