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FCT funded projects

AlBread | Uso de plantas aromáticas do Alentejo e farinha de bolota no desenvolvimento de pão funcional

PD23-00025

Funding body: LaCaixa | FCT
Total Funding: 248 129€
Funding UC: 144 565€
Funding CERES: 144 565€
Investigator in CERES: Luís Alves
Start: 2023
End: 2026

MSSHBioCem | Auto-Reparação de Superfícies de Argamassa usando um Biocimento de Elevado Desempenho

2022.03631.PTDC

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 24 9086€
Funding UC: 24 9086€
Investigator in CERES: António Alberto Correia
Start: 2023
End: 2025

Smart/stimuli-responsive liposome loaded hydrogels with dual delivery potential for tissue engineering applications

2022.02495.PTDC

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 49 972€
Funding UC: 49 972€
Funding CERES: 49 972€
Investigator in CERES: Patrícia Alves
Start: 2023
End: 2024

NANOCELIRONGAL | Nanocellulose films for the repair of old documents containing iron gall ink

2022.01621.PTDC

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 49 729€
Funding UC: 49 729€
Funding CERES: 49 729€
Investigator in CERES: José Gamelas
Start: 2023
End: 2024

Ligning for hair | Adding Value to Lignin From Biomass for Hair Care Applications

2022.06810.PTDC

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 49 927€
Funding UC: 49 927€
Funding CERES: 9 985€
Investigator in CERES: Carla Varela
Start: 2023
End: 2024

Mechanisms of protection of lactic acid bacteria by fructo-oligosaccharides: a molecular simulation study

2022.15888.CPCA

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 26 155€
Funding UC: 26 155€
Funding CERES: 26 155€
Investigator in CERES: Pedro Simões
Start: 2023
End: 2024

CirReDyeing | Integrated platform for recycling textile dyeing wastewater using Bi-Phase Aqueous Systems: a circular economy approach

DRI/India/0044/2020

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 99 731€
Funding UC: 99 731€
Funding CERES: 99 731€
Investigator in CERES: Jorge Pereira
Start: 2022
End: 2025

PLANTS4AGEING | Potencial das Plantas Aromáticas e Medicinais no Envelhecimento Cardiovascular

PD21-00003

Funding body: LaCaixa | FCT
Total Funding: 311 563€
Funding UC: 183 777€
Investigator in CERES: Lígia Couto
Start: 2022
End: 2025

MORfood | Microencapsulation of Moringa Oleifera extracts and its application in functional foods to mitigate children malnutrition in developing countries

FCT AGA-KHAN/541163254/2019

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 229 360€
Funding UC: 81 349€
Funding CERES: 81 349€
Investigator in CERES: Licínio Ferreira
Start: 2022
End: 2025

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PATCH | An Innovative Transdermal Heart-targeted Drug Delivery Strategy

022.05810.PTDC

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 49 994€
Funding UC: 49 994€
Investigator in CERES: Carlos Cavaleiro
Start: 2022
End: 2025

DIGIAqua | Digitalizando a Aquacultura: da análise preditiva à plataforma fotónica inteligente

PTDC/EEI-EEE/0415/2021

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 21 034€
Funding UC: 21 034€
Funding CERES: 21 034€
Investigator in CERES: Marco Reis
Start: 2022
End: 2025

GoldNKer | Gold nanorods for increasing epithelium permeability in corneal cross-linking

EXPL/BIA-BQM/0042/2021

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 49 897€
Funding UC: 49 897€
Funding CERES: 49 897€
Investigator in CERES: Elisa Campos
Start: 2022
End: 2023

Organização e reconhecimento quiral e selecção quiral em formulações lipossoma-fármaco: estudo combinado de espectroscopia quiróptica e simulação molecular

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 8 000€
Funding UC: 4 000€
Funding CERES: 4 000€
Investigator in CERES: Igor Reva
Start: 2022
End: 2023

NABIA | New Approach to Bioremediation Using Algae

PTDC/BTA-GES/2740/2020

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 239 740€
Funding UC: 239 740€
Investigator in CERES: António Guiomar
Start: 2021
End: 2024

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PineWALL | A relevância da composição e estrutura da parede celular para a resistência à doença da murchidão do pinheiro em cenários de alterações climáticas

PTDC/ASP-SIL/3142/2020

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 239 782€
Funding UC: 239 782€
Investigator in CERES: Marisa Gaspar
Start: 2021
End: 2024

Does the silicon conformation affect the ice sticking? Laboratory data and theoretical modelling on astrophysicalicy dust grain analogs

FCT/DAAD/2020

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 4 000€
Funding UC: 4 000€
Funding CERES: 4 000€
Investigator in CERES: Ana Borba
Start: 2020
End: 2022

RESEARCH4COVID-19 | Avaliação da Eficácia de Descontaminação e Segurança de Reutilização de Aparelhos de Proteção Respiratória

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 31 590€
Funding UC: 31 590€
Funding CERES: 31 590€
Investigator in CERES: Marco Reis
Start: 2020
End: 2021

Website

TimeUp | Time for infection is over

CI19-00100

Funding body: LaCaixa | FCT
Total Funding: 77 000€
Funding UC: 77 000€
Funding CERES: 77 000€
Investigator in CERES: Paula Ferreira
Start: 2019
End: 2022

Desenvolvimento de fotocatalisadores ativos para a remoção de contaminantes emergentes da água por ozonização fotocatalítica solar

POR/POL 19/20

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 4 000€
Funding UC: 4 000€
Funding CERES: 4 000€
Investigator in CERES: Rui Martins
Start: 2019
End: 2022

BioNemMulch | A new sustainable and integrated system for root-knot nematodes management in tomato crop

FCT - 02/SAICT/2017

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 231 577€
Funding UC: 231 577€
Funding CERES: 231 577€
Investigator in CERES: Carla Maleita
Start: 2018
End: 2022

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KnowLuci | The threat of the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne luci: pathogenicity and diagnostics

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 233 253€
Funding UC: 206 253€
Funding CERES: 27 000€
Investigator in CERES: Carla Maleita
Start: 2018
End: 2022

Website

FilCNF | New generation of composite films of cellulose nanofibrils with mineral particles as high strength materials with gas barrier properties

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 189 087€
Funding UC: 142 091€
Funding CERES: 142 091€
Investigator in CERES: José Gamelas
Start: 2018
End: 2022

Website

Innovative natural-based formulations for the control of Aedes Aegypti in Iberoamerican regions

FCT/CAPES 2018/2019

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 9 000€
Funding UC: 9 000€
Funding CERES: 9 000€
Investigator in CERES: Hermínio Sousa
Start: 2018
End: 2022

TcapitataBV | Thymbra capitata derived antimicrobial therapy against bacterial vaginosis multi-species biofilms

POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028271 - PTDC/BIA-MIC/28271/2017

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 232 794€
Funding UC: 23 639€
Funding CERES: 23 639€
Investigator in CERES: Lígia Couto
Start: 2018
End: 2022

AeroXTreme | Nanocompósitos de aerogel de sílica de alto desempenho para isolamento em ambientes de temperatura extrema no Espaço

02/SAICT/2017, CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-029533

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 235 399€
Funding UC: 235 399€
Funding CERES: 235 399€
Investigator in CERES: Luísa Durães
Start: 2018
End: 2022

Website

NANOFIRE | Comportamento térmico e mecânico da Nano Cimentos e sua aplicação na construção de aço como revestimento de proteção contra incêndios

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 237 973€
Funding UC: 237 973€
Funding CERES: 52 292€
Investigator in CERES: Luísa Durães
Start: 2018
End: 2022

Website

TYRE4BUILDINS | Recycled Tyre Rubber Resin-Bonded for Building Insulation Systems Towards Energy Efficiency

POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032061

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 238 259€
Funding UC: 116 875€
Funding CERES: 116 875€
Investigator in CERES: Luísa Durães
Start: 2018
End: 2022

Website

ReFlorest | Reabilitando Resíduos Agroflorestais: Das Interações Intermoleculares em Polifenois Naturais ao Desenvolvimento de Novos Biomateriais de Valor Acrescentado

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 239 373€
Funding UC: 150 000€
Funding CERES: 73 639€
Investigator in CERES: Graça Rasteiro
Start: 2018
End: 2022

ZAPGO | Nanoestruturas de Óxido de Grafeno revestidas com polímeros anfifílicos zwiteriónicos para a terapia química e fototérmica do cancro da mama

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 237 603€
Funding UC: 36 306€
Funding CERES: 36 306€
Investigator in CERES: Paula Ferreira
Start: 2018
End: 2022

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INEYE | Non-invasive ocular insert for drug delivery

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 223 442€
Funding UC: 185 886€
Funding CERES: 185 886€
Investigator in CERES: Paula Ferreira
Start: 2018
End: 2022

Website

ADHESIVESTEEL | Generalisation on the use of structural adhesives in steel bridges

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 222 573€
Funding UC: 167 499€
Funding CERES: 55 075€
Investigator in CERES: Paula Ferreira
Start: 2018
End: 2022

ToxApp4NanoCELFI | A predictive toxicology approach to characterize potential respiratory effects of functionalized nanocellulose fibers in a co-culture system

FCT – PTDC 2017 - 02/SAU-PUB/2017/IC&DT 3258

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 237 504€
Funding UC: 15 375€
Funding CERES: 15 375€
Investigator in CERES: Paulo Ferreira
Start: 2018
End: 2022

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STERILAEROGEL | Green method to prepare sterilized biopolymers based aerogel

PTDC/EQU-EPQ/32625/2017FCT - 02/SAICT/2017

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 229 475€
Funding UC: 229 475€
Funding CERES: 199 625€
Investigator in CERES: Mara Braga
Start: 2018
End: 2021

Design of new DOPA-containing macromolecular bioadhesive

IF/01432/2015

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 50 000€
Funding UC: 50 000€
Funding CERES: 50 000€
Investigator in CERES: Paula Ferreira
Start: 2017
End: 2019

EcoVector | Novas estratégias ecológicas para o bio controlo do vector do nemátodo da madeira do pinheiro na Eurásia

PTDC/AGR-TEC/3049/2014

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 165 624€
Funding UC: 100 872 €
Funding CERES: 88 572€
Investigator in CERES: Mara Braga
Start: 2016
End: 2020

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BEATGLAUCOMA | Biodegradable intravitreal porous implants for the extended release of A3 adenosine receptor agonist for the treatment of glaucoma

PTDC/NEU-OSD/3123/201

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 172 368€
Funding UC: 142 476€
Funding CERES: 29 892€
Investigator in CERES: Mara Braga
Start: 2016
End: 2020

StereoStrat | Sterilization of clinically active hydrogels: looking for efficient strategies

PTDC/CTM-BIO/3640/2014

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 187 800€
Funding UC: 57 144€
Funding CERES: 57 144€
Investigator in CERES: António Guiomar
Start: 2016
End: 2019

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PCMs4Buildings | Sistemas com Cavidades Rectangulares com Materiais de Mudança de Fase para o Aproveitamento de Energia Solar Térmica em Edifícios

PTDC/EMSENE/6079/2014

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 195 932€
Funding UC: 14 418€
Funding CERES: 14 418€
Investigator in CERES: Luísa Durães
Start: 2016
End: 2019

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MR-S2BEST | Fusão ótima de informação com múltiplas resoluções para o desenvolvimento de sensores inferenciais, monitorização de processos e estimação de estados baseada em modelos

PTDC/QEQ-EPS/1323/2014

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 108 252€
Funding UC: 108 252€
Funding CERES: 108 252€
Investigator in CERES: Marco Reis
Start: 2016
End: 2019

Ozone based processes for pharmaceutical and hospital wastewater treatment

IF/00215/2014/CP1223/CT0008

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 48 000€
Funding UC: 48 000€
Funding CERES: 48 000€
Investigator in CERES: Rui Martins
Start: 2016
End: 2019

INNOVATE | Implantable organic devices for advanced therapies

PTDC/EEI-AUT/5442/2014

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 198 260€
Investigator in CERES: Adriana Cavaco
Start: 2016
End: 2019

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Functionalization of natural-origin polymers with novel and task specific ionic liquids (ILs) for the development of electroactive materials for biomedical applications

IF/00455/2013/CP1155/CT0001

Funding body: FCT
Total Funding: 50 000€
Funding UC: 50 000€
Funding CERES: 50 000€
Investigator in CERES: Ana Dias
Start: 2014
End: 2018