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Bluepharma opens gene‑therapy production unit in Coimbra

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Bluepharma will open a new production unit in Coimbra for complex injectable medicines related to gene therapy, with operations expected to start in April; the project is the result of a consortium of ten entities and marks further investment in pharmaceutical innovation. The unit is intended to support manufacturing capacity for advanced therapies and may create specialised local jobs. Healthcare and biotech workers, and regional suppliers, should watch hiring and procurement notices as the unit becomes operational.

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Bluepharma opens gene‑therapy production unit in Coimbra

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There is a disease with the highest global incidence in the Azores. In Coimbra, a team is trying to stop it

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The disease gradually stole his movements. First his balance, then his gait, and later his autonomy. While José Cação learns to live with the progression of Machado-Joseph disease, researchers at the University of Coimbra are testing a gene therapy that could halt the advance of the condition, which has its highest known global prevalence in Portugal.

expresso.pt23 Jul

There is a disease with the highest global incidence in the Azores. In Coimbra, a team is trying to stop it

António José Seguro: "Investing in health is not a cost"

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The President of the Republic attended the Jorge Ruas Prize ceremony, organised by the Tecnimede Group, with Expresso as a media partner. €100,000 was awarded to a Portuguese gene therapy project.

expresso.pt27 May

António José Seguro: "Investing in health is not a cost"

Jorge Ruas Award presented to project on Machado-Joseph disease

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The President of the Republic attended the ceremony, organised by the Tecnimede Group and partnered with Expresso as media partner. €100,000 was awarded to a Portuguese gene therapy project.

expresso.pt27 May

Jorge Ruas Award presented to project on Machado-Joseph disease

Portugal

1665: At the Battle of Ambuíla in northern Angola, a Portuguese force from Luanda under Luís Lopes de Sequeira defeats the army of the Kingdom of Kongo. King António I is killed and beheaded, and the once-powerful kingdom slides into civil war.
1936:The Tarrafal prison camp
The steamer Luanda lands the first 152 political prisoners at the Tarrafal concentration camp on Santiago island in Cape Verde, among them Marinha Grande strikers and sailors from the September mutiny. The 'camp of slow death' operated until 1954 and again from 1961 to 1974.
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