Bial Foundation

Founded in 1994, Bial Foundation's mission is to foster the scientific study of the human being from both the physical and spiritual perspectives.

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🤔 What does it mean to win one of the Nuno Grande Doctoral Scholarships?

🎞️ Watch the video featuring Daniela Oliveira, from @FMUPorto, @i3S_UPorto and ULS de Entre Douro e Vouga, Santa Maria da Feira, one of the three winners of the 2025 edition, and discover how this recognition will enable her to develop her scientific and academic skills.

🤝 Family of Professor Nuno Grande, #BialFoundation and @ICBAS_UPorto. Learn more at https://t.co/vPxTEgo9vy

#BialFoundation #ICBAS #BDNG2025 #ScientificResearch #Spondyloarthritis #IBD

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🚨 Last call: Applications for the #MariadeSousaAward 6th edition - 2026 close on May 31!

What makes a winning application? For Neuza Domingues, a researcher at @_MIA_Portugal (Multidisciplinary Institute of Ageing) at @UnivdeCoimbra and a winner of the 5th edition, the secret was the courage to take risks.

Follow the example of those who were not afraid to innovate. There’s still time to submit your application for the Maria de Sousa Award 6th edition – 2026 🌐 https://t.co/C7omSMezU9

#BialFoundation #ScientificResearch #OdemdosMédicos #MariadeSousa #Ageing

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🏆 Apply for the #PrémioBialdeMedicinaClínica 2026 and give your project the visibility it deserves!

For Cristina Nogueira-Silva, professor at the @Med_UMinho and a member of this edition’s jury, this is “an award that recognises and celebrates clinical research conducted in Portuguese”, providing “visibility for original work and financial support that enables new projects”. 🩺

If you have completed an original work and your team includes at least one physician from a Portuguese-speaking country, don’t miss this opportunity to win a prize of €100,000. The deadline is August 31. ⏳

🔎 Learn more at https://t.co/HHqeOMSP5z

#FundaçãoBial #BialFoundation #ScientificResearch #PrémioBial #ClinicalMedicine

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🩺The Nuno Grande Doctoral Scholarships 2025 awarded three scholarships to research projects in the fields of #Rheumatology, #Neurology, and #Cardiology.

🔎 Learn more about Daniela Oliveira, Francisco Almeida, and Francisco Vasques-Nóvoa and their work in this post.

🎓@FMUPorto, @i3S_UPorto, ULS de Entre Douro e Vouga, @Med_UMinho, @icvs_uminho, @ICBAS_UPorto, ULS Santo António, ULS São João.

#BialFoundation #ICBAS #BDNG2025 #ScientificResearch #Spondyloarthritis #IBD #AlzheimerDisease #HeartDiseases

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🤔 What does it take for a research project to win an award?

🎞️ Watch the testimonial video from Bruna Meira, from @ChampalimaudF, winner of the 5th edition of the #MariadeSousaAward. The researcher explains how combining a clinically relevant question about #Parkinson’s disease with an ambitious, multidimensional scientific approach made all the difference to her application.

🎯 Submit your application for the 6th edition – 2026 by May 31 at https://t.co/C7omSMezU9

#BialFoundation #ScientificResearch #OdemdosMédicos #MariadeSousa

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🧐 What happens when we leave our bodies?

🎬 In episode 9, “Out-of-Body Experiences”, of “Beyond the Brain”, we explore the accounts of those who have felt themselves floating above their bodies, observing their own reality from the outside.

🧠 Chris French, Director of the “Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit” at @GoldsmithsUoL, offers us a critical and fascinating insight into how science deals with these phenomena. If science is pushing its boundaries to understand what once seemed inexplicable, the question remains: has everything really been clarified?

Find out the answers in the docuseries “Beyond the Brain”, available on @playrtp🎬 https://t.co/ljMiTNYiDJ

#BialFoundation #ScientificResearch #Neuroscience #BeyondtheBrain

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🧬 Grants for Scientific Research 2026/2027: Who is eligible?

The programme is open to researchers worldwide, whether working individually or as part of a team, who submit projects of excellence in the fields of #Psychophysiology and #Parapsychology.

🚀 Applications are open until August 31. Learn more at https://t.co/T0Uqtr6jte

#BialFoundation #Scientificresearch #Neuroscience

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🩺 On May 13, as part as the @ICBAS_UPorto Day celebrations, the Award Ceremony of the Nuno Grande Doctoral Scholarships took place, an occasion to recognise excellence in #HealthResearch in Portugal.

👏 Congratulations once again to the winners of the 2025 edition: Daniela Oliveira, Francisco Almeida and Francisco Vasques-Nóvoa, for their distinguished projects in the area of Fundamental Health Sciences.

Thank you to everyone who attended this very special occasion.

🤝 An initiative by the family of Professor Nuno Grande, #BialFoundation and #ICBAS.

🎓@FMUPorto, @i3S_UPorto, ULS de Entre Douro e Vouga, @Med_UMinho, @icvs_uminho, @ICBAS_UPorto, ULS Santo António, ULS São João.

📷 ICBAS

#BDNG2025 #ScientificResearch #Rheumatology #IBD #AlzheimerDisease #Neurology #Cardiology

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🏆What distinctive aspects of an application can lead to winning the #MariadeSousaAward?

🎞️ Diogo Reis Carneiro, a researcher at ICNAS, @UnivdeCoimbra, and winner of the 5th edition of the Award, answers clearly: “the secret lies in the unexpected element”.

⏳ Now is the time to showcase your research. Apply by May 31👉 https://t.co/C7omSMezU9

🤝 #OrdemdosMédicos and #BialFoundation

#FundaçãoBial #ScientificResearch #InvestigaçãoCientífica #OdemdosMédicos #MariadeSousa

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@calafate_luis Olá, @calafate_luis, agradecemos o comentário!

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🥳 Congratulations Francisco Almeida!

🧠 The research work “Locus coeruleus integrityas an early imaging marker of susceptibility to Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body pathology” focuses on the development of early imaging markers for neurodegenerative diseases, in particular Alzheimer’s disease and Lewybody pathology.

Considering an ageing population and an expected risein the prevalence of dementia, this approach could help identify signs of susceptibility before more late-onset and less specific brain changes, suchas atrophy, thereby improving early diagnosis, risk stratification and our understanding of the progression of these conditions.

🎓 @Med_Uminho, @icvs_uminho, @ICBAS_Uporto, and ULS Santo António, Porto.

#BialFoundation #ICBAS #BDNG2025 #ScientificResearch #AlzheimerDisease #Neurology

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Dreams are both universal and personal experiences ✨

To further address the extent to which stable individual traits and shared experiences over time shape dream content, a team of researchers coordinated by Giulio Bernardi (IMT Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca, Italy), with the support of the #BialFoundation, conducted a study, over four years, analysing thousands of reports of dreams and waking experiences.

🔎 Learn about the main results in the latest #ScienceStory 🌐https://t.co/vrWfSJoUWN

#ScientificResearch #Dreams

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@TGO_lab @neurothought @icvs_uminho @Med_UMinho Hello, Tiago Gil Oliveira. Thank you for sharing 🙌

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🔚 We have reached the end of the @ICBAS_Uporto Day celebrations, which included the Award Ceremony of the Nuno Grande Doctoral Scholarships 2025.

🙌 Thank you for joining us this afternoon.

🎯 Keep an eye on our social media! Over the coming weeks, we will be sharing more details about this event and the winning projects.

🤝 Professor Nuno Grande’s family, #BialFoundation, and #ICBAS

#BDNG2025 #ScientificResearch

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🙌 Congratulations, Francisco Vasques-Nóvoa!

🧡 The project “Myocardial Inflammation: The Counterpoint of Intensity and Time” proposes a new way of understanding inflammation in the heart, focusing on two key aspects: the intensity of the inflammatory response and its duration overtime.

The research will integrate clinical and experimental models, molecular analysis and advanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging techniques to better characterise different patterns of myocardial inflammation. The aim isto create a more precise basis for distinguishing disease phenotypes, improving risk stratification and supporting more targeted therapeutic decisions.

🎓 @FMUPorto, ULS São João, Porto.

#BialFoundation #ICBAS #BDNG2025 #ScientificResearch #Cardiology #HeartDiseases

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👏 Congratulations Daniela Oliveira!

🔬 The project “GUT JOINT AXIS STUDY - Gut glycome andintestinal permeability as drivers of the gut-joint axis: impact in the interplay between inflammatory bowel disease and spondyloarthritis” aims to investigate the relationship between the gut and joint inflammation in patients with spondyloarthritis, a group of chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases frequently associated with extra-articular manifestations, notably inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

The aim isto explore new pathophysiological mechanisms, identify biomarkers of disease severity and therapeutic response, thereby contributing to more innovative and personalised treatment strategies for patients with spondyloarthritis.

🎓 @FMUPorto, @i3S_UPorto, and ULS Entre Douro e Vouga, Santa Maria da Feira.

#BialFoundation #ICBAS #BDNG2025 #ScientificResearch #Rheumatology #Spondyloarthritis #IBD

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🎙️Before the official presentation of the Nuno Grande Doctoral Scholarships 2025, the Chairman of the #BialFoundation, Luís Portela, took the opportunity to highlight that `This was Nuno Grande’s main concern: to support and attract doctors to academia and research. And that is why we set up the Nuno Grande Doctoral Scholarships´.

🔜 Next, we’ll be welcoming this edition’s winners onto the stage. Don’tmiss it. 🎯

🤝 Professor Nuno Grande’s family, #BialFoundation, and @ICBAS_Uporto

#ICBAS #BDNG2025 #ScientificResearch

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🔛 Next, to start the Award Ceremony of the Nuno Grande Doctoral Scholarships, we were delighted to hear from Cristina Grande, daughter of Professor Nuno Grande, who highlighted ‘Today, the Nuno Grande Doctoral Scholarships has been expanded into three scholarships, thanks to the generous support of the Bial Foundation, to whom we are very grateful´.

🎯 Stay tuned!

🤝 Professor Nuno Grande’s family, #BialFoundation, and @ICBAS_Uporto

#ICBAS #BDNG2025 #ScientificResearch

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🚀 The event began with an intervention by Henrique Cyrne Carvalho, Dean of @ICBAS_UPorto and President of the Jury for the Nuno Grande Doctoral Scholarships 2025, who started by thanking everyone present, emphasising that ‘The future takes time – time to think, time to make the right decisions. My hope is that ICBAS will never lose sight of its core values or the time it devotes to the right people´.

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🤝 Professor Nuno Grande’s family, #BialFoundation, and @ICBAS_Uporto

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