Harvard Medical School - Portugal Program awards Junior and Senior Clinical Research Grants
The Harvard Medical School - Portugal Program recently announced the winners of the 2009 Junior and Senior Clinical Research and Career Development Awards.
The grant for the Senior Clinical Research and Career Development was awarded to Dr Helena Cristina de Matos Canhão, a Rheumatologist at the Santa Maria Hospital and investigator at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular in Lisbon.
Dr Canhão's research will focus on the "Response-to-anti-TNF treatment biomarkers in rheumatoid arthritis" and she will spend a two year post-graduate training program in clinical investigation at Harvard Medical School and in the Scholars in Clinical Science Program (SCSP). After completing this training Dr Canhão will return to Portugal to develop a clinical research project for another two years.
Junior Award Grants go to Porto
The two grants for the Junior Awards were given to Dr Maria João Nabais Sá, an investigator at the Genetics Department at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto/São João Hospital and physician specializing in Genetic Medicine at the Jacinto Magalhães Genetic Centre/INSA, and Dr Gil Filipe Ramada Faria, a surgery resident and investigator, also at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto and São João Hospital.
These two grants are for young MDs who wish to complement their clinical training with a competitive research project. Both awardees will participate in the Program in Clinical Effectiveness (PCE), a two month summer course at Harvard Medical School designed for clinicians seeking quantitative and analytic skills required for clinical research or interested in health care administration.