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The Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Lisbon (FFUL) is a highly-regarded research-oriented institution in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Raking first among the Schools of Pharmacy in Portugal, it provides PhD and master programs aimed at both scientific and professional training of excellence. FFUL has an administrative infrastructure offering a vast experience of project management and is the host institution of iMed.ULisboa, a multidisciplinary R&D Unit in Life and Health Sciences, whose mission is to develop novel therapies and benefit human health through top class research. iMed.ULisboa capabilities are built around a network of 15 research groups organized in four Program Areas, spanning the drug discovery and development spectrum, with an emphasis on innovative, multidisciplinary, and collaborative research to develop medicines: Discovery• Cell- and tissular-based approaches• In-vivo and ex-vivo models• “-omics” technologies• Biomarkers and pathway modeling• Determinants and mechanism of action• Therapeutic proteins and non-coding RNAs Design• Chemical compounds• Natural products• Biologicals and biotechnology-derived therapeutics • In silico screening• Computer-assisted drug design• Bio-inspired, efficient and sustainable synthetic methodologiesDevelopment• In-vitro, ex-vivo and in-vivo pharmacology• Pharmacokinetics• Delivery systems• Nanotechnology-based solutions• In-vitro, ex-vivo and in-vivo toxicology• Supportive nonclinical studiesDrug usage• Pharmacovigilance and risk management• Appropriate drug prescription and usage• Epidemiology• Biomarkers• RegulationOur strategy for the future is built on our unique role in contributing to more effective ways for medicines development to succeed, from understanding fundamental questions, with specific life and health issues in mind, to effectively pursuing unrelenting disease problems and age-related degenerative processes in today’s society.

Listed skills include Farmacologia.