Selected projects

A new approach to combating antimicrobial resistance

João Morais Cabral

How to prevent the next outbreak of West Nile virus in Spain

Jordi Figuerola

What factors predispose to invasive pulmonary aspergillosis?

Cristina Cunha

How can we make vaccines effective for the entire population?

Luis Graca

How diet impacts the immune system in early life

Manuela Ferreira

Towards a better understanding of how the immune system makes tailored responses to different pathogens

Nuria Martínez

Towards a better understanding of how the immune system responds to infections

Esteban Ballestar

Towards a cure for long COVID

Christian Brander

A platform to rapidly develop and produce new biopharmaceuticals to treat emerging viruses

Cláudio Manuel Soares

A new technology to clean respiratory viruses from the air

Miguel A. Bañares

Towards the development of a new generation of antibiotics to combat antimicrobial resistance

Alfonso Jaramillo

The hiding places of malaria

Hernando A. del Portillo

Drugs that target the host to treat tuberculosis

Francisco José Roca Soler

Understanding the differences in the severity of tuberculosis as a key to find new treatments

Margarida Saraiva

Synthetic viruses to treat bacterial infections

Joana Azeredo

Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnología

New drugs to treat candidiasis

Toni Gabaldón

Designing a new vaccine against malaria

Miguel Prudêncio

Attacking HIV reservoirs to eliminate the infection

María José Buzón

Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca, Spain

Health Call

New strategies to treat sleeping sickness

Luisa Figueiredo

Instituto de Medicina Molecular Joao Lobo Antunes, Portugal

Health Call

Understanding and blocking the adaptation mechanism of the malaria parasite in order to eradicate the disease

Elena Gómez-Díaz

Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López Neyra (CSIC), Spain

Health Call

New approaches to combatting Chagas disease and leishmaniasis

Olga Genilloud

Centro de Excelencia en Investigación de Medicamentos Innovadores en Andalucía (Fundación MEDINA), Spain

Health Call

The dialogue between neurons and defences opens the door to new therapies against infections

Henrique Veiga-Fernandes

Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Fundación Champalimaud, Portugal

Health Call

Bacterial engineering for the treatment of pneumonia

Luis Serrano Pubul

Fundació Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG), Spain

Health Call

New therapeutic strategy against the Ebola virus

Carmen Gil

Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CIB-CSIC), Spain

Health Call

How to stop malaria transmission

Alfred Cortés Closas

Institut de Salut Global Barcelona (ISGlobal), Spain

Health Call

Towards a better understanding of the front line of defenses

Marc Veldhoen

Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM), Portugal

Health Call

How to prevent the outbreaks of Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika in Spain

Frederic Bartumeus Ferré

Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes. Consell Superior d’Investigacions Científiques (CEAB-CSIC), Spain

Health Call

New strategies to combat sepsis

Miguel Che Parreira Soares

Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal

Health Call

The language of immune defenses will contribute to the development of new vaccines

Francisco Sánchez-Madrid

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Spain

Health Call

Towards a universal vaccine to end chronic infectious diseases

Andreas Meyerhans

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain

Health Call

The liver could reveal malaria's achilles' heal

Maria M. Mota

Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) de Lisboa, Portugal

Health Call

New strategies to combat Zika

David Andreu Martínez

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain

Health Call

How to avoid and improve the treatment of lung complications derived from allergic reactions

Agostinho Albérico Rodrigues de Carvalho

Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Universidade do Minho (UM), Portugal

Health Call