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The 12th European Symposium on Biochemical Engineering Sciences was held in Lisbon from 9 to 12 of September of 2018 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. This year, the European Society of Biochemical Engineering Sciences (ESBES) organized the event with the collaboration of iBB/IST, SPBT and Dechema. Raquel Aires-Barros, the event chair, and Ana Azevedo, co-chair, mobilized a team of 15 PhD and MSc students from IST to receive 324 participants (75% non-portuguese). As a complement to scientific lectures, the event featured workshops on Modelling, Monitoring, Measurement and Control (M3C), Scientific Writing and Bioengineering Education. The last topic was extensively discussed during the Symposium as a possible emergent section of ESBES to address and promote an active cooperation between European academia and industry. Click on the title for more information on ESBES 2018.

Inês Pinto from BERG-iBB just won the ESBES Award at the ESBES 2018 conference held in Lisbon (8-12 September 2018) for her work “Optimizing the performance of chromatographic separations using integrated microfluidic devices: adsorption/elution kinetic studies and multiplexed analysis”. The work is part of Inês' PhD project on Biotechnology and is co-authored by Raquel Aires Barros, Viginia Chu, João Pedro Conde and Ana Azevedo. Diogo Pinto from SCERG was one of the runnerups of the competition. The ESBES Award is granted biannually by the European Society of Biochemical Engineering Sciences and aims at recognizing outstanding PhD thesis or scientific publications by students or early carrier researchers in the field of biochemical engineering.