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.
Eduarda Leite-Gomes, a PhD Student from Pinho’s Lab, has recently been awarded with a short-term fellowship from the Federation of European Biochemical Societies.
Pedro Cabral and Ana Campar have recently been awarded by NEDAI (Núcleo de Estudos de Doenças Auto-Imunes) at its XI National Congress, which also marked the XXX Annual Meeting of Autoimmunity in Portugal. Each was distinguished by their pioneering work in lupus nephritis and idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, respectively.
Pinho´s Lab was honoured to receive the Best Paper Award 2025 at the Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Immunology (SPI – Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia), which took place in Lisbon last April.
Pinho’s Lab has recently been distinguished by the Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience, receiving funding for a groundbreaking research project dedicated to harnessing glycans to improve immunotherapies for colorectal cancer (CRC).
Catarina Azevedo, Srishti Shah and Rafaela Nogueira – PhD students from Pinho’s lab – have recently been awarded with Travel Grants from the European Federation for Immunological Sciences (EFIS)! In addition, Catarina Azevedo awarded EMBO and SPI grants for a research secondment in Switzerland.
Joana Gaifem, a post-doctoral researcher in Pinho’s Lab, has recently been awarded with the Maria de Sousa prize. Currently in its 4th edition, this prize pays homage to the late Maria de Sousa, a pioneer in immunology and education in Portugal, and distinguishes notable young researchers in Portugal working in the health sciences.
Inês Alves, a researcher in Pinho's Lab, has been awarded a prestigious €10,000 Exploratory Research Grant by the European Society for Clinical Investigation (ESCI).
PhD student, Beatriz Santos-Pereira, has been awarded the EFIS-Immunology Letters Short-term Fellowship. Beginning in September 2024, she will undertake a three-month research internship at Leiden University Medical Center, supervised by Professors Manfred Wurher and Paul Hensbergen.
Inês Alves, a researcher in Pinho's Lab, won the Best Paper Award 2023 from the Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia (SPI) for her paper titled "Host-derived mannose glycans trigger a pathogenic γδ T cell/IL-17a axis in autoimmunity" published in Science Translational Medicine.
