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Mariana Gomes de Pinho and team recipients of 2018 Pfizer Award

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Annual Pfizer Awards distinguish works in Basic Research and Clinical Research
Mariana Gomes de Pinho and team recipients of 2018 Pfizer Award

Oeiras, 18.10.2018

Mariana Gomes de Pinho and her team were one of the recipients of Pfizer Award 2018 with the research work "Peptidoglycan synthesis drives FtsZ treadmilling-independent step of cytokinesis" published in Nature in February and highlighted on our webpage.

Pfizer Annual Awards distinguish the best basic and clinical research works fully or partially developed in Portuguese institutions by Portuguese or foreign researchers. It awards a monetary prize of 20,000 euros for the winning project in each area.

"We are honoured with this distinction, which is a recognition of our team's work on basic research in understanding how pathogenic bacteria grow and divide. Insights into the basic cellular mechanisms involved in cell division are key to finding new ways of dealing with antibiotic resistance worldwide", said Mariana Gomes de Pinho. "I am very happy that we, as a team, were able to achieve the results that led to this paper."

This distintion will be awarded today at 18h at Teatro Thalia, in Lisbon.

Awarded paper

Nature 10.1038/nature25506

Peptidoglycan synthesis drives FtsZ treadmilling-independent step of cytokinesis

João M. Monteiro*, Ana R. Pereira*, Nathalie T. Reichmann, Bruno M. Saraiva, Pedro B. Fernandes, Helena Veiga, Andreia C. Tavares, Margarida Santos, Maria T. Ferreira, Vânia Macário, Michael S. VanNieuwenhze, Sérgio R. Filipe and Mariana G. Pinho#

* These authors contributed equally to this work

# Corresponding author

 

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