An ERC Starting Grant has been awarded to Ana Rita Lado Ribeiro, researcher at LSRE-LCM since 2014.

ERC provides long-term funding to support researchers and their research teams in pursuing groundbreaking, high-gain/high-risk research. Scientific excellence is the sole criterion on which European Research Council (ERC) grants are awarded.

Rita's project, entitled ERA-ARE - A new ERA for Environmental Risk Assessment: Chirality as a tool towards environmentally safe pharmaceuticals, aims to understand enantioselectivity of environmental processes that can impact the fate/behaviour of chiral antibiotics, contributing to reduce antibiotic resistance and creating innovative Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) guidelines in the pursuit of safer drugs, thus refashioning the relationship between pharmaceutical industry and the environment.
The total budget amounts to 1.5 M€ for a 5 year period.

LSRE-LCM congratulates Rita Lado on this high achievement!

The book “A Relevância da Indústria Química e o Seu Contributo para a Sociedade” authored by Prof. José Luis Figueiredo will be presented on September 15, at the FEUP library. 

This book is part of the Fundação Amélia de Mello (FAM) initiative to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Alfredo da Silva, and resulted from a partnership between FAM and DEQ-FEUP.

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