CISA researchers Cláudia Fançony and Cruz Sebastião are in the spotlight on the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation website. The researchers are participating in the PALOP Involve Science program, a project supporting the setting up and installation of research groups led by PALOP health science researchers run by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

The PALOP Involve Science program provides grants for internships of excellence in Portugal, support for research institutions in the PALOPs for hosting and integrating the researchers implementing the research project designed and planned during the internship that took place in Portugal.

Claudia Fançony is developing her project at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute of the University of Minho in the field of antimalarial effectiveness while Cruz Sebastião is studying HIV molecular epidemiology in Angola at the Institute of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine, the University of Lisbon.

The CISA researchers are participating alongside another six researchers from Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau and Mozambique. The best projects developed during the internship, according to the evaluation by an international jury, shall receive support for their development at the researcher’s host institution in the PALOPs for a period of three years.

To watch videos detailing CISA research project click here.