Milestones of “RuPharma” Path
 
2008
Prize - Honor Prize awarded to M. Helena Garcia, 'SHIC´08, SOLVAY & HOVIONE IDEAS CHALLENGE', "Potenciais Fármacos de Ruténio para o tratamento do cancro".

2012
Grant - Grant awarded to Guilherme Nogueira, ´Amadeu Dias Award´, Universidade de Lisboa, to carry out the project “New ruthenium-polymer complexes syntheses for controlled drug delivery in cancer therapy”.

2013
Prize - Best poster prize, $1000 US, presented by M. Helena Garcia at "Drug Discovery & Therapy World Congress 2013”, “Cyclopentadienyl ruthenium (macro)metallodrugs: large spectrum antitumor agents”, M. Helena Garcia, Tânia S. Morais, Ana Isabel Tomaz, Andreia Valente, Fernanda Marques, 3-6 June 2013, Boston, USA,
Recognition - “most downloaded papers in last 90 days” March 2013, from Journal of  Inorganic  Biochemistry, the paper “Biological activity and cellular uptake of [Ru(η5-C5H5) (PPh3)(Me2bpy)][CF3SO3] complex” Tânia S. Morais, Filipa Santos, Leonor Côrte-Real, Fernanda Marques, M. Paula Robalo, Paulo J. Amorim Madeira, M. Helena Garcia., J. Inorg. Biochem., 122, 2013, 8 – 17, 2013 (11th place in 25)

2014
Prize - Awarded to Tânia Morais, “Portuguese Young Chemists Award”, from Sociedade Portuguesa de Química, praising her PhD Thesis «Síntese de novos complexos bio-organometálicos de ruténio e avaliação das suas propriedades anti-tumorais» Universidade de Lisboa, 2013.   
Prize - Awarded to Tânia Morais, Portuguese Young Chemist Award 2014 (PYC-Gradiva 2014), with the work “New compounds, big challenges”.
Recognition - “most downloaded papers in last 90 days”, January 2014, from Journal of  Inorganic Biochemistry; “Important cytotoxicity of novel iron(II) cyclopentadienyl complexes with imidazole based ligands”, Ana Cristina Gonçalves, Tânia S. Morais, M. Paula Robalo, Fernanda Marques, Fernando Avecilla, Cristina P. Matos, Isabel Tomaz, M. Helena Garcia, J. Inorg. Biochem., 129, 2013, 1-8 (6th place in 25).
Recognition - “most downloaded papers in last 90 days”, February 2014, from Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry; “New water-soluble ruthenium(II) cytotoxic complex: Biological activity and cellular distribution”, Tânia S. Morais, Filipa C. Santos, Tiago F. Jorge, Leonor Côrte-Real, Paulo J. Amorim Madeira Fernanda Marques M. Paula Robalo, António Matos, Isabel Santos, M. Helena Garcia, J. Inorg. Biochem., 130, 2014, 1-14. (1st place in 25).

2015
Prize - First prize awarded to “Rupharma Project”, in ´ScienceIN2Business Initiative´ promoted by TecLabs for Translational Research, M. Helena Garcia, Tânia S. Morais, Andreia Valente, Ana Isabel Tomaz, FCUL – 3 June 2015
Prize - Awarded prize to Andreia Valente, “Young Investigator Award´, at the 2nd European Conference on Smart Inorganic Polymers”, 24th-26th of September 2015, Upsala, Sweden
Grant - Awarded prize to Andreia Valente, “Fulbright grant for Portuguese Scholars and Researchers”, to carry out the project “On the mode of action of cyclopentadienyl ruthenium (macro) metallodrugs”, Jan – March 2015, at Rutgers University, USA.
 
2016
Prize (£3920) - Awarded prize to Andreia Valente from ´Royal Society of Chemistry Research Fund Grant´, on the project “Multifunctional polymer-metal complexes: an innovative approach to treat cancer”, Jan-Dec 2016.
 
2017
Prize - Best Oral Communication Prize presented by Leonor Côrte-Real: “New self-assembled polymer-metal compounds: highly efficient anticancer vesicles”, Leonor Côrte-Real, Alejandro P. Soto, Ana S. Viana, Alexandra R. Fernandes, M. Helena Garcia, Andreia Valente, Chem&BioChem postgraduate students meeting, 9th February 2017, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa.  Promoting entity: Hovione Pharmaceutical Company.
 Prize - Best Poster Prize presented by Patrícia Gírio, “ABC proteins: targets for ruthenium-cyclopentadienyl anticancer metallodrugs?” Patrícia Gírio, Alexis Moreno, M. Helena Garcia, Pierre Falson, Andreia Valente, ´V Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Química´, 07-10 abril 2017, Coimbra, Portugal’. – Attributed by European Young Chemists Network
Recognition - “most downloaded papers in last 90 days”, June 2017, from Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, “New copper(I) and heteronuclear copper(I)–ruthenium(II) complexes: Synthesis, structural characterization and cytotoxicity”, João Lopes, David Alves Tânia S. Morais, Paulo J. Costa, M. Fátima M. Piedade, Fernanda Marques, Maria J.Villa de Brito, M. Helena Garcia, J. Inorg. Biochem., 169, 2017, 68-78 (9th place in 25).
Grant - Travel grant awarded to Andreia Valente from Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) to participate on the International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry, ICBIC18, July 31st – August 4th – 2017 - Florianópolis – Brazil.
 Grant - awarded to Leonor Côrte-Real by Fulbright, also with financial support of Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, to do research at Rutgers University, USA, for the academic year 2017/2018.
  
2019
Prize - Best Oral Communication Prize presented by Andreia Valente, “Novel ruthenium complexes as potent anticancer agents: strategies for targeted therapy” at CQE Days Spring Meeting 2019, 30-31 May 2019, Lisboa, Portugal. 
Prize - Awarded prize to Leonor Côrte-Real as the Portuguese representative of the 6th EFMC Young Medicinal Chemist Symposium, Athens, Greece, 5th-6th September 2019 sponsored by Sociedade Portuguesa de Química
 
2020
 Prize - Best Oral Communication Prize presented by Leonor Côrte-Real: "Fighting Breast Cancer with Ruthenium-based Metallodrugs endowed with Tumor-targeting Vectors", Leonor Côrte-Real, Ana Rita Brás, Ana Preto, M. Helena Garcia, Andreia Valente at the 13º Encontro Nacional de Química Orgânica (13ENQO) e 6º Encontro Nacional de Química Terapêutica (6ENQT), Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, 15-17 janeiro, 2020.
 
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