Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto
Rua Alfredo Allen, 208 4200-135 Porto, Portugal
Phone: +351 226 074 900
Email: info@i3s.up.pt
Pinho’s Lab member João Pereira was awarded the Best Poster Award at the IMMUNO-model Final Conference: Building Bridges in Cancer Immunotherapy Modelling, held from 20–22 May 2026 at the National Institute of Biology in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Pinho’s Lab has received the Nuno Grande 2025 Grant to advance our recent efforts in exploring the gut–joint axis in spondyloarthritis. The project will be developed in collaboration with ULS São João and ULS Entre Douro e Vouga.
Pinho’s Lab researcher Henrique Fernandes-Mendes has been awarded two research grants (from SPG and SPED societies) to support his project on early-onset colorectal cancer.
Guilherme Faria, a PhD student at Pinho’s Lab, has been awarded an EACR Travel Grant to attend the EACR 2026 Congress.
Pinho’s Lab has received an honourable mention in the Basinnov Innovation Awards 2026, awarded to Catarina Azevedo, to the project GLY-CART — “Glycoengineered CAR-T Cells: a new strategy to Break Solid Tumor Resistance”.
Inês Alves has recently been awarded with an ECCO Grant!
This work will contribute to the discovery of novel mechanism and therapeutic targets at the interface of health-to-disease transition.
Pinho’s Lab is proud to announce that Daniela Oliveira has been awarded the SPR/Fresenius Grant, funded by the Portuguese Society of Rheumatology. The grant will support her PhD project, “GUT-JOINT AXIS STUDY – Antimicrobial antibodies as mediators of the gut–joint axis: the role of gut glycosylation and intestinal permeability in patients with Spondyloarthritis.”
Pinho’s Lab has recently published a landmark review in the journal Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology! In collaboration with Joana Torres (Luz Hospital, Lisbon) and Jean-Frederic Colombel (Ichan School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, NYC, USA), this publication delves into how the mucosal glycome encodes a complex layer of biological information that actively contributes to gut homeostasis and disease.
Ângela Fernandes, a post-doctoral researcher at Pinho’s Lab, has been awarded with one of the prestigious 2025 Maria de Sousa grants. Ângela’s project will focus on neoantigen glycosylation in colorectal cancer – a type of cancer that remains particularly resistant to immunotherapies.
In our most recent publication in Cancer Immunology Research, we describe how T cell glycosylation mediates T cell exhaustion in colorectal cancer and how engineering of the T cell glycome can boost the anti-tumor activity of CD8+ and CAR-T cells.