09-12-2020
The Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, one of Portugal's most prestigious and oldest institutions of science, distinguishes Isabel Moura e José Moura, professors and researches at the Department of Chemistry at the NOVA School of Science and Technology.
The distinction granted to Isabel Moura, the first woman elected Correspondent Member of the Chemistry Section of the Academy, and José Moura, promoted from Correspondent Member to Effective Member, is the deserved recognition for a lifetime dedicated to scientific research and the international dissemination of its results. Professors were within the main founders of Bioinorganic Chemistry in Portugal and actively contributed to the consolidation of this new area of knowledge at an international level. Both with a h-factor higher than 60 and more than four hundred papers, they were pioneers in the identification and study of new metal centres in Biology (iron/sulfur, copper, nickel, molybdenum and tungsten), having made decisive contributions to the advancement of knowledge on the denitrification pathway, hydrogenases, aldehyde oxidoreductases, nitrate reductases, formate dehydrogenases, cytochrome peroxidases, mono and multi-haem cytochromes, desulforedoxin, rubrerythrin, desulfoferrodoxin (just to mention a few of the most cited works).
This is an honour granted only to a few Portuguese and we are all extremely proud, friends, collaborators, colleagues and the whole School. Congratulations!
