Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
IGC campus in Oeiras, Portugal
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| Headquarters | Oeiras, Portugal |
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Membership
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394 staff (March 2016) |
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Director
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Jonathan Howard |
| Website | www |
The Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) is an international centre for biological and biomedical research and graduate training. Founded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (FCG) in 1961, and still supported by the Foundation, the IGC is organised in small independent research groups that work in an environment designed to encourage interactions with minimal hierarchical structure. The scientific programme is multidisciplinary, including Cell and Developmental biology, Evolutionary biology, Immunology, Host-pathogen interaction, Disease Genetics, Plant Biology, Neurosciences, Theoretical and Computational biology.
Currently, the IGC hosts 42 Research Groups. Further 29 research groups develop their research at external associated institutes and research centres, maintaining strong scientific collaborations with IGC groups, and access to IGC facilities. Around 394 researchers (students, postdocs, technicians and group leaders), from 32 different countries work at the IGC.
In October 2012, Jonathan Howard took over as Director of the IGC succeeding António Coutinho, who has been Director since 1998.
The IGC is located in Oeiras, Portugal.
Recently:
- Moisés Mallo and his research group have discovered the key factor that regulates trunk development in vertebrates and explains why snakes have such a strikingly different body. These findings published in Developmental Cell in August 2016, contributed to understand the origin of the exceptionally long trunks that characterize the body of snakes and may open new avenues to the study of spinal cord regeneration.
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