Highlights

Roche Young Investigator Award

Award, 19th June 2011

Luis Borlido has been distinguished with the Roche Younger Investigator Award 2011 for best oral communication, at the Affinity 2011, the 19th biennial meeting of the International Society for Molecular Recognition, in Tavira, Portugal.

Young Researchers Award

Award, 31st May 2011

Filipa Ferreira has been distinguished with the Young Researchers UTL/Deloitte Award for her curriculum in Biological Engineering/Biotechnology in the competition sponsored by the Technical University of Lisbon and Deloitte.

Young Researchers Award

Award, 7th June 2010

Paula Rosa has been distinguished with the Young Researchers UTL/Deloitte Award and Filipa Ferreira with a Honourable Mention for their curriculum in Biological Engineering/Biotechnology in the competition for Young Researchers sponsored by the Technical University of Lisbon and Deloitte.

New Method for Purifying Therapeutic Proteins

Patent, 17th September 2009

A world patent (WO/2009/112149) was issued by Bayer Technology Services and Instituto Superior Técnico describing an alternative process for the purification of therapeutic proteins such as monoclonal antibodies by multi-stage liquid-liquid extraction using aqueous two-phase systems. This patent bilds on the results obtained during the PhD thesis of Paula Rosa at Instituto Superior Técnico and Bayer Technology Services, which was integrated in a Eupropean project founded under the 6th framework programme (AIMs No.NMP3-CT-2004-500160).

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Roche Young Investigator Award

Award, 16th July 2009

Claudia Silva has been distinguished with a Honourable Mention of the Roche Younger Investigator Award 2009 at the Affinity 2009, the 18th biennial meeting of the International society for Molecular Recognition, in Reykjjavik, Iceland.

Young Researcher Award

Award, 23rd June 2009

Paula Rosa and Filipa Ferreira have been distinguished with a Honourable Mention for their curriculum in bioengineering in the competition for Young Researchers sponsored by the Technical University of Lisbon and Deloitte. The awards ceremony will take place at the "Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária" on the 23 of June, 15h00.

SPICA Poster Award

The sientific comittee of the Symposium on Preparative and Industrial Chromatography and Allied Techniques, held in Baden-Baden/Germany, has awarded the 2rd poster prize to I.F. Ferreira, P.A.J. Rosa, A.M. Azevedo and M.R. Aires-Barros for their presentation entitled "Optimisation of Temperature Induced Aqueous Two-Phase Extraction of Human Antibodies".

ISPPP Poster Award

The sientific comittee of the 28th International Symposium on the Separation of Proteins, Peptides and Polynucleotides, held in Baden-Baden/Germany, has awarded the 3rd poster prize to I.F. Ferreira, A.M. Azevedo, P.A.J. Rosa and M.R. Aires-Barros for their presentation entitled "Optimisation of Temperature Induced Aqueous Two-Phase Extraction of Human Antibodies".

Last Meeting of the Integrated European Project AIMs

Events, 10-12th September 2008

The last meeting of the european project AIMs was held in Lisbon at the Lisbon Geographic Society. The technology developed by the IST team, supervised by Professor Raquel Aires-Barros, has been considered as one of the breakthroughs achieved during this project. This technology has been developed in collaboration with Bayer Technology Services, Leverkussen, Germany and is based on the use of aqueous two-phase systems for the purification of monoclonal antibodies..