Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FFC/FC/UL)
Campo Grande ­ Edificio C7 ­1º Piso
1749­016Lisboa

Institution Description
The Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FFCUL) is a non­profit organization recently reclassified as a public institution. FFCUL was created in 1993 as an initiative of the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL) to promote and facilitate scientific research, technology and development services to society, and to organize qualified human resources training and consulting expertise and knowledge dissemination. FFCUL acts as the contractual and administrative authority on behalf of scientific research units or organizations and their investigators. All the research and services are carried out by research units’ staff or by staff contracted by FFCUL strictly on their behalf. The largest FFCUL clients are associated to FCUL research units but FFCUL can also support directly other universities and laboratories. Many of R&D activities are developed with international teams and with both international and national funding. Currently, FFCUL manages over 400 projects and implements a professional (and constantly audited) management of around 20 research centers, in the fields of Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research, Physics, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Geology, Geophysics, Space, Astronomy, Biology, Computer Science and Informatics, Education Sciences and Philosophy and History of Sciences.

Participating Institution
FARM­ID, Associação da Faculdade de Farmácia para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento (FARM­ID)
Av. Professor Gama Pinto
1649-­003Lisboa

Institution Description
iMed.ULisboa (http://www.imed.ulisboa.pt) is a multidisciplinary R&D Unit in Life and Health Sciences supported by FCT, and hosted at Faculty of Pharmacy, ULisboa (FF/ULisboa; http://www.ff.ul.pt/). The Principal Contractor of iMed.ULisboa is represented by FARM­ID, a private not­for­profit association of FF/ULisboa for R&D, which aims to provide efficient administrative and management support, consolidation of back office operations, and optimal use of resources, thus enabling iMed.ULisboa to continue focusing on its core research activities. iMed.ULisboa mission is to develop innovative medicines and benefit human health through top­class multidisciplinary research. Capabilities are built around a network of 15 research groups, spanning the drug discovery and development spectrum, with an emphasis on innovative, multidisciplinary, and collaborative research. iMed.ULisboa hosts 94 PhD researchers and 121 PhD students, and is heavily committed to enabling scientists and training students. Leading the PhD Programme in Medicines and Pharmaceutical Innovation (http://www.ff.ul.pt/phd3duul/) and partnering in several networks and consortia, iMed.ULisboa promotes national productivity and competitiveness in drug discovery and development, and facilitates interactions with universities, research institutes, biotechs, pharma and general public. FF/ULisboa provides administrative support, office and laboratory space, access to infrastructures, human resources and technical support.

Research Unit
Laboratório de Sistemas Informáticos de Grande Escala (LASIGE/FC/UL)
Bloco C5, Piso 1, Campo Grande
1749­016Lisboa

Additional Research Unit
Instituto de Biosistemas & Ciências Integrativas (BioISI/FFC/FC/UL)
Edifício C2
1749-­016 Lisboa

Research Institute for Medicines and Pharmaceutical Sciences (iMed.UL)
Av. Prof. Gama Pinto
1649­-003 Lisboa

Host Institution
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FC/UL)
Rua Ernesto de Vasconcelos ­ Edifício C5 ­ Campo Grande
1749-­016 Lisboa