UCIBIO comprises 35 Research Labs organized in 6 Research Groups (RG):
- Structural Molecular Biology (SMB)
- Molecular Microbiology & Genomics (MMG)
- Disease Pathways & Biomarkers (DPB)
- Toxicology (TOXI)
- Precision Biomedicine (PBMed)
- Bioengineering (BENG)
RGs develop their research around 4 major Thematic Lines:
TL1 - Biological & Biomolecular Interactions;
TL2 - Innovative Biomedical Technologies;
TL3 - Human and Environmental Health Safety;
TL4 - Bioengineering for Sustainability
Structural Molecular Biology (SMB)
The SMB group is organised in 7 research labs from the Lisbon pole:
- (Bio)Molecular Structure And Interactions by NMR
- Biochemistry and Bioenergetics of HEME Proteins
- CryoEM@NOVA: Structural Biology and Drug Discovery
- Glycolab- Functional Glycobiology
- Microbial Stress
- Molecular Biophysics
- XTAL - Macromolecular Crystallography
Molecular Microbiology & Genomics (MMG)
The MMG research group is organised in 6 research labs distributed in the Lisbon and Porto poles:
- Bacterial Cell Surfaces and Pathogenesis, Filipe Lab, Lisbon
- Bacterial Drugs, Peixe lab, Porto
- Infection Biology, Mota lab, Lisbon
- Microbial Genetics, Sá-Nogueira lab, Lisbon
- Molmicro of Bacterial Pathogenesis, Sobral lab, Lisbon
- Yeast Genomics, Sampaio and Gonçalves lab, Lisbon
Disease Pathways & Biomarkers (DPB)
The DPB research group is organised in 5 research labs distributed in the Lisbon and Porto poles:
- Computational Multi-Omics, Grosso lab, Lisbon
- Drug Targets & Biomarkers, Santos-Silva lab, Porto
- Gene-Editing, Barreto lab, Lisbon
- Mitochondria and Neurobiology, Oliveira lab, Porto
- Molecular Mechanisms of Disease, Vieira lab, Lisbon
Toxicology (TOXI)
The Toxicology RG (TOXI) comprises 6 Research Labs distributed in the Lisbon and Porto poles:
- Biotox, Diniz lab, Lisbon
- SeaTox, Costa lab, Lisbon
- Toxicology, Dias Carvalho Lab, Porto
- Toxicologic Pathology, Ricardo lab, Porto
- Translational Toxicology, Dinis Oliveira lab, Porto
- Biomedical Forensic Sciences, Carvalho lab, Porto
Precision Biomedicine (PBMed)
The PBMed research group comprises 5 Research Labs distributed in the Lisbon and Porto poles:
- Development of health medicines and products, Ferreira & Amaral Lab, Porto
- Glycoimmunology, Videira lab, Lisbon
- Human Genetics and cancer therapeutics, Fernandes lab, Lisbon
- Mechanistic Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, Gonçalves lab, Porto
- Nanomedicine, Baptista Lab, Lisbon
Bioengineering (BENG)
The BENG research group comprises 6 Research Labs from the Lisbon pole:
- Biochemical Engineering, Reis lab
- Bioengineering of Therapeutic Proteins, Passarinha lab
- Biomolecular Engineering, Roque lab
- Bionanosensors, Franco lab
- Blue biotechnology and biomedicine, Gaudêncio lab
- Systems Bioengineering, Oliveira lab