Inauguration of the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine by the President of the Portuguese Republic Prof. Anibal CavacoSilva Avepark - Caldas das Taipas, 25th of June 2009
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In November 2008, on the scope of the Annual Congress of the Asia-Pacific Section of the International Society for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (TERMIS-AP), that took place in Taipei, Taiwan, from 6 to 8 of November 2008, Patricia Malafaya Baptista, researcher from the 3B’s Research Group, received the “Best Oral Presentation Award” with the work entitled “Chitosan Particle Aggregated Architectures for Osteochondral Tissue Engineering: Development and Characterization of Polymeric and Bilayered Scaffold”.[img_assist|nid=129|title=|desc=|link
In October 2008, Anabela Alves Pinto, researcher from the 3B’s Research Group, obtained an important award attributted by the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3, United Kingdom) on the scope of the world competition for the Best Oral Presentation organized by the Institute, addressed to young investigators.
By the end of year 2007, Rui L. Reis, Director of the 3B’s Research Group, received the award "BES Inovação" (sponsored by BES, a Portuguese Bank), in the category of forests, with the project entitled "New composite materials Cork-Polymer". This project, done in cooperation with the Portuguese company Corticeira Amorim SGPS, with whom the research group has been strengthening his partnership, having as goal the development of new products and applications made of or with cork.
In the 2007 Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS-AP) that took place in Tokyo from 3 to 5 December, a researcher and PhD student from the group, Ana Rita Costa Pinto, received the prize “Outstanding Student/Young Investigator Award” for the work entitled “Biological Performance of Human Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Cultured onto Novel Melt Based Chitosan Polyester Scaffolds”, supervised by Prof. Nuno Neves and co-supervised by Prof. Rui L.
In October 2007, Prof. Isabel Dias and Prof. Carlos Viegas, researchers from the 3B’s Research Group and professors in the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, were attributed the prestigious “Pfizer Award for Clinical Research 2007”, handed over to the awardees in Lisbon on the 9th of October by the Portuguese Minister of Health.