Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute

Driven by the post 25 April spirit, the Porto academy joins the eight existing faculties of medicine in the country.

Its genesis was based on a set of great principles, which shaped the profile that the Institute still has today: solid basic education and focus on advanced training, research and innovation.

Created in 1975, at the initiative of a group of personalities from the University of Porto, including Corino de Andrade, Ruy Luís Gomes and Nuno Grande, and inspired by the thought and work of his patron Abel Salazar, the Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS) was assumed from the outset as a multidisciplinary and multiprofessional school in the area of Life Sciences, in a broad sense, adopting the statement “A doctor who only understands medicine not even medicine understand” (José de Letamendi) as the School's motto.

This project has evolved in the face of new challenges and is now an Integrated Master in accordance with the new Basic Law of the Education System, intended to apply the principles set out in the “Bologna Process”.

The balance between exact, biological, social and medical sciences taught by multidisciplinary teams has been and continues to be one of the most innovative pedagogical goals of medicine at ICBAS.