Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute
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Medical school
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(or Faculty of Medicine
Medicine
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), veterinary sciences school
School
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and also a school of marine biology
Marine biology
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, located in Porto
Porto
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, Portugal
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. It was founded in 1975, and it is also today a renowned medical
Medicine
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and biomedical
Biomedicine
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research
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centre, operating as an autonomous unit of the University of Porto
University of Porto
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.
Along with traditional medicine
Medicine
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, including specialities such as oncology
Oncology
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, public health
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and mental health
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, it also teaches acupuncture
Acupuncture
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, marine biology
Marine biology
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, veterinary medicine
Veterinary medicine
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, biochemistry
Biochemistry
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and bioengineering.
It is named after Abel Salazar
Abel Salazar
Abel de Lima Salazar , was a Portuguese physician, lecturer, researcher, writer and painter who worked and lived in Porto...
(1889-1946), a Portuguese physician
Physician
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, lecturer
Lecturer
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, researcher
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and painter
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who worked and lived in Porto
Porto
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.
On the main hall of the Institute, the famous maxim
Maxim (philosophy)
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of Abel Salazar
Abel Salazar
Abel de Lima Salazar , was a Portuguese physician, lecturer, researcher, writer and painter who worked and lived in Porto...
can be read:
"The one who only knows Medicine, not even Medicine does he know."
Student life
The Students Group for the Promotion of Integrative Medicine was founded in 2004.The students association - AEICBAS - has a website - www.aeicbasup.pt
Related Links
-Abel SalazarAbel Salazar
Abel de Lima Salazar , was a Portuguese physician, lecturer, researcher, writer and painter who worked and lived in Porto...
-Corino Andrade
Corino Andrade
Mário Corino da Costa Andrade was a leading twentieth century Portuguese neurologist and researcher who first described the familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy syndrome that later came to be associated with his name .Corino was a founder of the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, a...
-Alexandre Quintanilha
Alexandre Quintanilha
Alexandre Tiedtke Quintanilha, GOSE is a Portuguese scientist, former director of the Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular of the University of Porto and Professor at ICBAS - Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences.-Biography:Alexandre Tiedtke Quintanilha, GOSE was born in Lourenço...
-Ruy Luís Gomes
Ruy Luís Gomes
Ruy Luís Gomes was a Portuguese mathematician and founder os the Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute...
-Nuno Grande
External links
- Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute homepage (Portuguese and English)
- Coral de Biomédicas (Portuguese and English)
- Tuna Académica de Biomédicas (Portuguese and English)
- Idéias & Lamentos - Vinicultuna de Biomédicas-Tinto blog (Portuguese)
- Students association homepage