Since 2013, the charitable organisation Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa annually selects three research projects, led by scientists in Portugal. This year, the project of Noam Shemesh, a principal investigator at Champalimaud Foundation, was selected for one of the awards, called the Mantero Belard Prize.

The 64th edition of the Pfizer Awards, the oldest award in the field of biomedical investigation in Portugal, took place yesterday, November 11th.