The Doctoral Programme on Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a collaborative effort between iBB-IST, Centro de Biologia Molecular e Ambiental (CBMA), Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB/UNL), Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FC/UL) and Centro de Engenharia Biológica da Universidade do Minho (CEB/UM) has been recently approved by FCT after peer-review by an international panel of experts. With a total of 24 grants, this new FCT PhD programme will enable iBB to expand its research and educational activities, complementing the graduate efforts already in place under the scope of the PhD programs in Bioengineering-MIT Portugal, Bioengineering - Cell Therapies and Regenerative Medicine and Biotechnology and Biosciences.
Photo details: 3D computer-generated image of the rod-shaped, drug-resistant Shigella bacteria, Melissa Bower, CDC. 2013, Public domain.
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