Selected Awards & fellowships 

• 1st Prize Bolsa Emílio Peres da Sociedade Portuguesa de Diabetologia; “Impacto de ritmo circadiano na pre-diabetes”- Mars2020 
• 1st Prize of Astrazeneca Innovate Competition, iMed Conference® 10.0 Lisbon 2018. Searching for new circadian rhythm regulators to delay aging. Authors: Rodrigo Ribeiro, Sara Carmo-Silva, Ana Rita Álvaro, Cláudia Cavadas¹& Maria Manuel C. Silva; Lisbon, October 2018.
• Award Janssen Innovation 2018, 2^nd Prize 
• Award Janssen Innovation 2016, 2^nd Prize 
• Award Thomé Villar / Boehringer Ingelheim 2016 Second Prize, Portuguese Society of Pulmonology. Award for the second best scientific research work on the Pulmonology field, with the entitled work “Peripheral Biomarkers for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Diagnosis”; Joaquim Moita, Laetitia Gaspar, Isabel Luzeiro, Alcinda David, Fátima Teixeira, Ana Rita Álvaro, Cláudia Cavadas. . 
• Award “Ciência Viva” - Women in Science - Portugal, March 2016
• Award – Basic Research – Portuguese Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Porto de 24 a 27 January 2013
• Fellowship from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to participate at the 13^th International Symposium on Chromaffin Cell Biology. 7 a 12 Jan 2006. Pucón, Chile.
• PhD Fellowship – awarded by Portuguese Science Foundation (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia; reference BD 13416/97): from April 1998 to March 2001 was PhD student Division of Hypertension and Vascular Medicine – Centre Hospitalier Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.