The Programs’ Office was created, in October 2003, with the following mission: to increase, in amount and variety, the research funding for R&D activities available to IBMC, INEB and Ipatimup researchers

This Office has the following tasks:
• Search Calls for Proposals, opened by the several financing agencies, national and international, public and private;
• Collect and study carefully all the necessary Forms for the Application;
• Send that information to all the researchers of IBMC, INEB and Ipatimup;
• Help Preparing the Proposals, taking care of the bureaucratic tasks, being the link between the investigator and the financial and administrative department;
• Direct Contact with the Financing Agencies, presenting and promoting the institutes with the intent of creating a good contact network, focusing on more personal relationships.