In total, 14 applications were submitted in the 1st edition of the InnOValley Proof of Concept Fund (IOV PoC), and 4 were distinguished as the most innovative scientific projects: one at IGC, led by Simão Coelho from the Optical Cell Biology Lab, and 3 at ITQB NOVA. Each one receives around €50k in funding and over the next 12 months the projects researchers from the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) and the Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA), will confirm preliminary data and develop proposals that will solve challenges present in society.

Check the latest news in the press about the initiative (in Portuguese):

in Expresso

in Público