Portugal

The Republic of Portugal, a founding member of Euro-BioImaging, proudly hosts two Nodes with many facilities across the country: Brain Imaging Network (BIN) and Portuguese Platform of BioImaging (PPBI). Learn more about the Nodes and get an overview of news and interactions with Portugal below.

Brain Imaging Network - BIN - Key figures 2024

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Portuguese Platform of BioImaging - PPBI - Key figures 2024

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News about Portugal

“FAIR 101 - From Principles to Practice” hybrid satellite workshop led by Isabel Kemmer (online) and Daniela Aviles (on-site), with facility managers from Portugal and Spain.

November 17, 2025

Hybrid FAIR workshop unites Iberian imaging communities

On November 4, 2025, PPBI (Portuguese platform for bioimaging) and Euro-BioImaging co-organized a successful FAIR data workshop for the Portuguese and Spanish imaging…

Daniela Aviles Huerta with Euro-BioImaging Scientific Ambassadors.

November 10, 2025

SPAOM 2025: Strengthening the Iberian Imaging Community through Collaboration and FAIR Practices

From November 5–7, 2025, the city of Braga, Portugal, became a vibrant hub of scientific exchange as more than 200 researchers, imaging specialists, and…

November 6, 2025

Inspiring Scientists Across Borders: A Transformative Experience Through the EVOLVE Mentoring and Job Shadowing Program

The EVOLVE project continues to showcase how structured mentoring and immersive job shadowing can empower researchers to learn, connect, and share expertise across borders,…

Two women at a booth with games and posters.

October 15, 2025

Euro-BioImaging Nodes showcase imaging at European Researcher’s Night 2025

Every year in September, researchers across Europe take time to share their passion for science with their local communities. With overwhelming enthusiasm and creativity,…

August 6, 2025

Euro-BioImaging at EACR 2025: Strengthening Ties with the Cancer Biology Community

The 2025 Annual Congress of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR 2025), held from June 16–19 in Lisbon, welcomed more than 4,000 participants…

August 1, 2025

Congratulations to the successful applicants in the EVOLVE Call for Event Proposals!

Within the framework of the EVOLVE Project, Euro-BioImaging aims to raise awareness of imaging technologies, international collaboration, and Euro-BioImaging overall at Nodes’ hosting institutions. …

July 31, 2025

PPBI in Focus: Behind the Scenes at the GIMM Bioimaging Platform

During a recent visit to one of the Portuguese Platform of Bioimaging (PPBI) Node facilities, Daniela Aviles, Scientific Project Manager at Euro-BioImaging, had the…

Portuguese BIN Node staff with Ale and Erika

July 18, 2025

Visiting the Portuguese Brain Imaging Network (BIN) Node

In June 2025, some of the Euro-BioImaging Hub staff attended the Annual congress of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) in Lisbon,…

The latest full-body PET machine at Euro-BioImaging's Portuguese BIN Node.

April 8, 2025

Multicenter clinical trials in collaboration with pharma companies at the Portuguese Brain Imaging Network (BIN) Node

Clinical evaluation of novel treatments and comparisons with existing ones is of paramount importance in the development of drugs and therapies, to ensure their…

February 24, 2025

Understanding the neurological mechanisms that contribute to obesity

Obesity is increasingly an acute public health issue in industrialised countries. According to WHO, in 2022, 1 in 8 people in the world were…

November 27, 2024

Spanish and Portuguese Microscopy Communities meet in Toledo

The Annual SPAOM meeting – the Spanish and Portuguese Advanced Optical Microscopy Meeting – took place in November 2024 in Toledo, Spain. The meeting…

Distributed Training course - Intro to BioImage Analysis with Python for Life Scientists banner

November 11, 2024

Euro-BioImaging runs a highly successful distributed image analysis training course

Within the framework of the eRImote project, Euro-BioImaging Hub in collaboration with France-BioImaging, PPBI and Swedish NMI, developed and implemented an innovative, distributed training…

European Researcher’s Night festivities in Milan - Piazza Duomo

October 11, 2024

European Researcher’s Night 2024

The European Researchers' Night is a fantastic way for research infrastructures such as Euro-BioImaging to connect with diverse audiences. This year, under a splendid autumnal sun, teams from the Multimodal Molecular Imaging Italian Node in Milano and Euro-BioImaging Med-Hub in Torino, participated in the “Notte europea dei ricercatori” festivities with posters, games and fun activities for children.

August 29, 2024

Distributed Training course - Intro to BioImage Analysis with Python for Life Scientists

Euro-BioImaging is proud to announce a pilot distributed training course for “Intro to BioImage Analysis with Python for Life Scientists” from October 7th to…

June 20, 2024

EACR 2024: Euro-BioImaging meets with the preclinical and translational cancer research community in Rotterdam

The 2024 Annual Congress of the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR 2024) took place in Rotterdam from June 10 to 13, 2024. The…

February 14, 2024

MMMI Italian Node supports the MorphoPHEN Erasmus Mondus Join Master’s Program

The MorphoPHEN Master’s Program is an integrated and interdisciplinary Erasmus Mundus Joint Master, to train experts in morphological mouse phenotyping, to generate a…

January 22, 2024

Euro-BioImaging at the Congress of the Brazilian Society of Microscopy and Microanalysis

Euro-BioImaging at the Congress of the Brazilian Society of Microscopy and Microanalysis Through our participation in Global BioImaging, Euro-BioImaging has built strong collaborations with…

January 18, 2024

Euro-BioImaging meets the Spanish and Portuguese Microscopy community at SPAOM 2023

From October 25thto 27th, the Spanish and Portuguese Advanced Optical Microscopy Meeting (SPAOM) took place in Faro, Portugal. This annual meeting brings together the…

Euro-BioImaging User Forum on Neuroscience, Miguel Castel Branco

March 16, 2022

A TMS and multimodal molecular imaging study of the Interhemispheric inhibition/excitation imbalance: project overview

Euro-BioImaging is organizing an online User Forum on April 5, 2022, from 14:00-17:00 CEST. This event will highlight the importance of…

March 15, 2022

Aberrant hippocampal transmission and behavior in mice with a stargazin mutation linked to intellectual disability

Euro-BioImaging is organizing an online User Forum on April 5, 2022, from 14:00-17:00 CEST. This event will highlight the importance of…

September 23, 2021

Euro-BioImaging Nodes and Users participate in the European Researchers’ Night

The European Researchers’ Night is a research communication and promotion event that aims to bring research and researchers closer to citizens of all…

Photo of a lamella prepared for the study (A), a reconstructed slice of the entire tissue specimen at a resolution of 100 µm (B) and the outcomes of three local area scans performed in three selected areas (C-E) with a resolution of 5 µm

July 21, 2021

How imaging technologies contribute to understanding viruses

Euro-BioImaging offers an ever-expanding portfolio of cutting-edge imaging technologies and expertise that covers a range of applications in the life sciences – including in…

June 30, 2021

Euro-BioImaging welcomes eight new Nodes!

We are very pleased to announce that the Euro-BioImaging family is growing! In June 2021, we welcome a total of eight new Nodes to…

February 23, 2021

The Virtual Pub: Open cutting-edge super-resolution and machine-learning technology for the study of cell biology and viral infection

On Friday, February 26th, at 13:00 CET, we welcome: Prof. Ricardo Henriques Group Leader of the Optical Cell Biology Laboratory, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência,…