Public Interventions Research for Excellence at the European Parliament: a day with the IMM

Today, at the European Parliament, Maria da Graça Carvalho hosted the seminar Research  for Excellence at the European Parliament: a day with IMM - Instituto de Medicina Molecular de Lisboa, Portugal.

The seminar focused on the research for excellence in the European Parliament; the speakers all came from the IMM, one of the most prestigious research centres in Portugal, which is based in Lisbon and attached to the Medical Faculty of the University of Lisbon. 

During her intervention, Ms Carvalho dealed with three key aspects:  the development of the future European programmes on research and innovation; the question of the budget provisions and the share of the budget that is devoted to research and innovation in Europe; and finally, the need for simplification in the domain. 

Among the participants were J.  Lobo Antunes, President of the Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM); M. Carmo Fonseca - Director of the IMM; M. Pinto Gago, Head of Legal, Human resources, and Financial affairs, IMM; M. Trindade  - Pre-award project management coordinator, IMM; M. Mota  - Head of the Malaria unit, IMM; B. Silva Santos -  Head the Molecular Immunology unit of IMM.