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 has recently published a groundbreaking study in the journal Science Immunology. Combining single-cell transcriptomics with experimental and functional approaches, the team demonstrated that IL-17A-producing γδT cells exhibit a distinctive glycosylation profile enriched in complex branched N-glycans. Importantly, once these glycans are depleted, γδ T cells are reprogrammed towards a highly pro-inflammatory phenotype.

Inês Alves, a junior researcher at Pinho's Lab, has been awarded a L'Oréal Portugal Medal of Honor for Women in Science 2025, which recognizes young scientists with innovative projects in health and environmental research.

Beatriz Santos-Pereira, a PhD student at Pinho's Lab, has been awarded a Travel Grant from the Portuguese Society for Immunology (SPI) to attend the 1st Joint Annual Meeting of the French Society for Immunology (SFI) and the SPI, in Toulouse. She has also been selected for an oral presentation.

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.