Awardees

2025
- Eduardo Veríssimo
(i3S, ICBAS, Porto, Portugal)
"The spiny mouse activates both neuron-autonomous and extrinsic programs to enable regeneration of sensory tracts"

2024
- Best Presentation
Jonas Campos
(ICVS, School of Medicine, Braga, Portugal)
"Priming adipose mesenchymal stem cells secretome with docosahexaenoic-acid: effects on glial cell populations after spinal cord injury in a dish"

- Top 5 Presentations
Sara Costa-Pinto
(IMM | FMULLisboa, Portugal)
Lack Of Astrocytic Support Contributes To Early Impairments In The Motor Cortex Plasticity Of Presymptomatic Sod1g93a Mice

João Filipe Viana
(ICVS, School of Medicine, Braga, Portugal)
The role of astrocytic metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 in mood and cognition

Raquel Vale-Silva
(i3SPorto, Portugal)
Rhoa is a putative regulator of cns myelination

Paola Valero Ávila
(CiMUS Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Inhibition of bmal1 in tanycytes: implication in circadian rhythm and metabolism

2023
- Ana Filipa Terceiro
(i3S, Porto, Portugal)
"Methamphetamine Activates Rac1 In Striatal Microglia"

2022
- María Silveira Loureiro
(CiMUS-University of Santiago de Compostela)
"Energy Balance and Circadian Behavior in Mice are Regulated by Astrocytic-AMPK Signaling"

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2021

- Catarina M. Gomes
(iBET/ITQB, Oeiras, Portugal)
“Exploring a human 3d stem cell-derived model to study astrocyte activation during neuroinflammation”

- Renato Socodato and Tiago O. Almeida
(i3S, Porto, Portugal)
“Microglia remodel the synaptic signaling required for context-dependent cognitive performance”