The 2021 University of Lisbon Prize was awarded to the scientist and researcher Maria Carmo-Fonseca, president of the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM), in recognition of her “exceptional career,” the University of Lisbon announced this Friday.
The distinction rewards the “relevant contributions in the field of molecular medicine and public participation in the promotion of science and scientific literacy” by María Carmo-Fonseca, indicates the award information note, adding that “the social impact of her innovative research and visionary leadership” make her “an influential personality in Portugal and in the world”.
President of the IMM since 2014, the scientist, who was executive director of the same institute between 2002 and 2014, is also a tenured professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, where she graduated in 1983 and where she received her doctorate in 1988.
Distinguished with the Pessoa Award in 2010, an award that she was the first scientist to receive individually, the researcher also received the Femina Award for Merit in Science in 2011, the Pfizer | Sociedade das Ciências Médicas de Lisboa Research Award in 1981 and 1989, and the Gulbenkian Science Prize in 2007, among others.
Awarded annually and endowed with 25,000 euros, the ULisboa Prize was established with the support of Caixa Geral de Depósitos and its objective is “to distinguish and reward a person of Portuguese or foreign nationality who has made a notable contribution to the progress and improvement of Science and/or culture and for the international projection of the country”.
The Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, the writer Gonçalo M. Tavares, the historian António Borges Coelho, the scientists Maria de Sousa and Jorge Calado, the architect Nuno Teotónio Pereira and the lawyer, university professor and politician Adriano Moreira also received University of Lisbon Award.
Source: TSF
