The funding and management of this research system is mainly conducted under the authority of which ministry ?
The largest R&D units of the public universities ( over 380 units in total which are distributed across 14 public universities ) by number of peer - reviewed publications and research grants , include the IPATIMUP , the Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular and the Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute , all of them at the University of Porto ; the Instituto de Medicina Molecular at the University of Lisbon ; or the Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology at the University of Coimbra , among others .