Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology
Encyclopedia
The Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC - Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular) is a bioscience
and biomedicine
research institute of the University of Coimbra, in Coimbra
, Portugal
. Its researchers come from three faculties
of the University of Coimbra: the Faculties of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Science and Technology at the University of Coimbra. It is also linked to the University Hospitals of Coimbra (HUC) and several pharmaceutical companies. As a founding partner of the biotechnology association Biocant
, the CNC has shown its commitment to foster technology transfer and the creation of novel biomedical and biotechnology enterprises.
(MIT) and Harvard Medical School
(HMS).
distributed computing
network, searching for drugs against neurodegenerative amyloid diseases. The AMILOIDE project refers to the computational search, amongst libraries of millions of compounds, for potential drugs to interfere with the formation of aggregates and amyloid fibers in neurodegenerative diseases. Currently, the main target diseases being studied are Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy (FAP) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). This project is the responsibility of scientists of the Structural and Computational Biology Group at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC).
BioScience
BioScience is a peer-reviewed monthly sometimes daily scientific journal that is published by the American Institute of Biological Sciences . The content is written and edited for accessibility to researchers, educators, and students alike...
and biomedicine
Biomedicine
Biomedicine is a branch of medical science that applies biological and other natural-science principles to clinical practice,. Biomedicine, i.e. medical research, involves the study of physiological processes with methods from biology, chemistry and physics. Approaches range from understanding...
research institute of the University of Coimbra, in Coimbra
Coimbra
Coimbra is a city in the municipality of Coimbra in Portugal. Although it served as the nation's capital during the High Middle Ages, it is better-known for its university, the University of Coimbra, which is one of the oldest in Europe and the oldest academic institution in the...
, Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
. Its researchers come from three faculties
Faculty (university)
A faculty is a division within a university comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas...
of the University of Coimbra: the Faculties of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Science and Technology at the University of Coimbra. It is also linked to the University Hospitals of Coimbra (HUC) and several pharmaceutical companies. As a founding partner of the biotechnology association Biocant
Biocant
Biocant or Biocant Park, is a Portuguese science park entirely devoted to biotechnology. It is a venue devoted to advanced life sciences knowledge where technology is developed and applied creating value in business initiatives...
, the CNC has shown its commitment to foster technology transfer and the creation of novel biomedical and biotechnology enterprises.
History
The CNC was the first Associated Laboratory in Portugal, and is part of the Network of European Neuroscience Institutes (ENI). Since the mid-2000s, it has been involved in research collaborations between the Portuguese Government and the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
(MIT) and Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts....
(HMS).
Ibercivis
AMILOIDE is the name of a BOINC-related research work of CNC and the IbercivisIbercivis
Ibercivis is a distributed computing platform which allows internet users to participate in scientific research by donating unused computer cycles to run scientific simulations and other tasks...
distributed computing
Distributed computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...
network, searching for drugs against neurodegenerative amyloid diseases. The AMILOIDE project refers to the computational search, amongst libraries of millions of compounds, for potential drugs to interfere with the formation of aggregates and amyloid fibers in neurodegenerative diseases. Currently, the main target diseases being studied are Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy (FAP) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). This project is the responsibility of scientists of the Structural and Computational Biology Group at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC).