Research Grants & Projects

• Large scale parallel simulations of the spread of infectious diseases (2011-2014),
  Andrea Parisi, Principal Investigator
  Funding Agency: FCT
  Prime contractor: Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  

  
  

• The nature of protein folding (2011-2014),
  Patricia Faísca, Principal Investigator
  Funding Agency: FCT
  Prime contractor: Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  

  
  

• Insights into folding kinetics and designability of knotted proteins from lattice models (2011-2013),
  Patricia Faísca, Principal Investigator
  Funding Agency: FCT
  Prime contractor: Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  

  
  

• Intermediate states: At the crossroads of pathways to folding and pathways to disease (2010-2013),
  Patricia Faísca, Principal Investigator
  Funding Agency: FCT
  Prime contractor: Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  

  
  

• Molecular Simulations in Biosystems and Material Science, SimBioMa (2006-2011)
  Patrícia Faísca, Steering committe member
  Funding Agency: ESF
  Prime Contractor: CECAM, Lyon, France
  
  

• Studying protein folding and aggregation with coarse-grained computational models (2009-2010)
  Acções Integradas Luso-Espanholas. Universidade de Lisboa & Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
  Patrícia Faísca, Project coordinator
  Funding Agency: CRUP
  Prime contractor: Fundação da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  
  

• From protein folding to protein design: exploring biological complexity via computer simulation of simple models (2006-2010)
  Patrícia Faísca, Project coordinator
  Funding Agency: FCT / POCTI
  Prime Contractor: Fundação da Universidade de Lisboa
  
  

• Complex systems: from physics to biology and the social sciences (2005-2008)
  Ana Nunes and Patrícia Faísca, Participants
  Funding Agency: FCT / POCTI
  Prime Contractor: Fundação da Universidade de Lisboa, CFTC
  
  

• Dynamics and control of infectious diseases in human populations(2003-2006)
  Ana Nunes, Participant
  Funding Agency: FCT/SAPIENS (ALFA Program)
  Prime Contractor: Fundação da Universidade de Lisboa, CFTC
  
  

• From nucleus to stucture: keys of the emergence to a functional protein (2005-2006)
  Patrícia Faísca, Participant
  Funding Agency: CRUP / Reino Unido
  Prime Contractor: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, CFTC, Portugal