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The YES - Young European Scientist - Meeting is a congress for undergraduate students in the biomedical fields, organized exclusively by students from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, since 2006.

In fact, the YES Meeting is the first congress held in Portugal for undergraduate students in the biomedical fields, created with the aim of filling the lack of a favorable environment for scientific dissemination, exclusive to students. The 16th YES Meeting Programme includes lectures and round tables with renowned personalities in the national and international panorama, workshops (with a wide choice range), a Clinical Competition and also a Social and Cultural Programme that will allow participants to know the beauty of the “Cidade Invicta” (Porto).

The 16th edition of the YES Meeting took place online and at the Medical Research Center (CIM) of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) from September 16th to September 19th, 2021, following a hybrid model. It counted with the participation of almost a thousand students, from various countries and continents.

The YES Meeting has already counted with the presence of numerous illustrious personalities and among them, eight speakers had been awarded the emblematic Nobel Prizes, namely Sir Richard Timothy Hunt, (Nobel of Medicine, 2001), Professor Rolf Zinkernagel (Nobel of Medicine, 1996), Professor Aaron Ciechanover (Nobel of Chemistry, 2004), Professor Ada Yonath (Nobel of Chemistry, 2009), Professor Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Nobel of Chemistry, 2009), Professor Werner Arber (Nobel of Medicine, 1978), Professor Harald zur Hausen (Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2008) and Sir Gregory Winter (Nobel of Chemistry, 2018), as well as winners of the Lasker Prize, namely Professor Alim-Louis Benabid (2014), Dr. Nicholas Lydon (2009), Professor Jeffrey Friedman (2010).