In the 2007 Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS-AP) that took place in Tokyo from 3 to 5 December, a researcher and PhD student from the group, Ana Rita Costa Pinto, received the prize “Outstanding Student/Young Investigator Award” for the work entitled “Biological Performance of Human Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Cultured onto Novel Melt Based Chitosan Polyester Scaffolds”, supervised by Prof. Nuno Neves and co-supervised by Prof. Rui L. Reis