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IGC and the Oeiras Campus

The Telomere & Genome Stability lab is located in the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC). English is the main language of the institute (all seminars and communications are in english) and we have an established foreign scientific community (ca. 30%). You can get more information in our recent brochure. The site is contiguous to the gardens of an 18c palace and a short walk away from the beach. Portuguese weather and quality of life are reputably among the best in Europe while the cost of living among the lowest. Science in Portugal is growing 3x faster than the EU27. You may find details of working in Portugal here and here and living in Lisbon here. Lisbon was deemed the coolest European city according to CNN.

If you are a european researcher working in outside the EU, don’t miss out on the enticing and well paid Welcome II Programme or the FEBS Return-To-Europe Fellowships (both financed by the EU).

IGC was founded and is supported by the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian to carry on biomedical research and education. IGC operates as a "host institution", offering excellent facilities and services to foreign and Portuguese research groups or individual scientists, in particular to young post-doctoral fellows who are expected to develop their projects and form their groups in complete autonomy.

The campus includes other basic and applied research institutions in biomedicine, biology, biotechnology and chemistry: Centre for Study of Chronic Diseases (CEDOC) and Institute for Chemical and Biological Technology (ITQB) of the New University of Lisbon, Institute for Experimental Biology and Technology (IBET), and the National Agronomical Station (EAN) of the Ministry for Agriculture - all with complementary interests and competences: from translational medical sciences, protein structure and design, synthesis and theory of chemicals with biological interest, molecular microbiology, plant biotechnology, fermentation, downstream processing, etc.

Getting Here

The IGC is located in the campus of Oeiras, on the Tagus bank, some 20km from Lisbon.       
You can see the map here.

Arrival by Air

On arrival at the Lisbon airport, please go to the Visitors and Convention Bureau, where there is a Taxi Voucher service. There you obtain a taxi without queuing. The price of this service is approximately 30 Euros for the trip Airport-Oeiras.
Alternatively you can queue for a taxi from the taxi rank immediately outside the arrivals section.

Subway - Train

Take the subway at Lisbon’s Airport to CAIS DO SODRE (take the Red Line and transfer at Alameda to the Green Line). At Cais do Sodré, take the train to OEIRAS (direction Cascais). All trains stop at Oeiras, where this Institute is located. Subway and train single tickets cost 1.40 and 1.85 Euros, respectively. The whole trip should take about 1 hour.

  Instruction to get from Oeiras train station to the IGC: leave the station on the side of the square with trees (heading north towards the city center). Keeping to the right, cross the square, and walk down the road on the right (about 200m) until arrival at a set of traffic lights. Here, turn left, cross over the pedestrian crossing and the IGC is the protected area immediately after a pink house on the corner (This route takes around 3 minutes). Map can be obtained here.

Postal Address

Telomere and Genome Stability Laboratory

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

Apartado 14
P-2781-901 Oeiras
Portugal

  Addresses:

Street Address                                           

Telomere and Genome Stability Laboratory

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

Rua da Quinta Grande, 6
P-2780-156 Oeiras
Portugal

  Phone Numbers:

Office: +351 21 446 4654

Lab:     +351 21 446 4511

Fax:     +351 21 440 7970