New visiting scientist in the team

January 9, 2019

We have a new visiting scientist at the lab. Her name is Larissa Martins, she is coming from Brazil and is doing a BSc in Chemistry at Universidade de São Paulo. Larissa will stay with us for around 2 months, until the end of February 2019, and her work will be related to the SCENT project.

Call: Research grant, Masters degree, NEURiTES project

December 27, 2018

Announcing a call for a research grant for a Masters in Biomedical Engineering (or a related field). 

The successful applicant will work on the NEURiTES project: Neural Regeneration using Conductive Scaffolds.

Application from the 7th January until the 25th January 2019.

For more information: eracareers portal

International Call: Researcher (with PhD) for the NEURiTES project

December 23, 2018

An international call to hire a PhD researcher for the NEURiTES (NEUral Regeneration with conducTivE Scaffolds, reference PTDC/CTM-COM/32606/2017) project is open from the 7th January 2019 until the 25th January 2019.

PRODER - EU

December 21, 2018

Entidades financiadoras

December 21, 2018

OAT is now member of ETAG

December 17, 2018

The Observatory of Technology Assessment, unit of the research centre CICS.NOVA, is now member of the European Technology Assessment Group (ETAG).

Since October 2005 a group of European scientific institutes - with the Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany as the leading partner - has been providing scientific services for the European Parliament on social, environmental and economic aspects of new technological and scientific developments.

9th Winter School on Technology Assessment

December 17, 2018

The 9th Winter School on Technology Assessment took place at Universidade Nova Lisbon last November 30st. The whole program and the links to presentations can be found here: https://eventos.fct.unl.pt/winterschool-ta/announcements/9th-winter-school-technology-assessment

Filippo Maria Rotatori e os dinossauros ornitópodes de Portugal em tese de Mestrado em Paleontologia

December 5, 2018

Defendeu a sua tese de Mestrado em Paleontologia, Filippo Maria Rotatori, com o título "Ornithopod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of Portugal" na FCT-NOVA. A tese versou sobre a colecção de dinossauros ornitópodes do Jurássico Superior das colecções do Museu da Lourinhã.

Spin-off Des Solutio will make the cosmetic area more ecological

November 29, 2018

The recent spin-off Des Solutio resulted from the developed research on natural solvents, carried by the group of Professor Ana Rita Duarte and Doctor Alexandre Paiva. The company aims to develop safe and environmentally friendly products, based on Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents (NADES), which can replace other toxic organic solvents commonly used in the cosmetic area. NADES offer many benefits over those solvents, once they are entirely derived from natural compounds such as organic acids, amino acids and sugars, found in a wide range of plants.

The confusing story of the dinosaur Iguanodon and its lineage. Lecture with invited speaker José Manuel Gasca

November 28, 2018

We invite you for a lecture "The confusing story of the dinosaur Iguanodon and its lineage"  by José Manuel Gasca (Universidad de Zaragoza) on the December 4th, 2018 (11:00) at Auditório da Biblioteca FCT NOVA, integrated in the course Paleontology and Evolution of the Master in Paleontology. Open to the public.


Thesis defense: December 4th

November 27, 2018

Nome: Lic. Filippo Maria Rotatori
Título: Ornithopod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic of Portugal
Data das provas: 2018-12-04 Hora: 16.00
Local: SALA 3.30 – ED. IX

Constituição do Júri:
Presidente: Doutor Paulo Alexandre Rodrigues Roque Legoinha, Prof. Auxiliar – FCT/UNL

Vogais: Doutor José Manuel Gasca Pérez, Investigador de Pós-doutoramento da Universidade de Saragoça, Espanha

Doutor Octávio João Madeira Mateus, Prof. Associado – FCT/UNL

Call: Research grant, Masters degree

November 26, 2018

Announcing a call for a research grant for a Masters in Biomedical Engineering (or a related field). 

The successful applicant will work on the iSkin2 project: improving skin regeneration through an improved Skin2 biosynthetic skin substitute.

Application from the 30th November until the 20th December 2018.

For more information: eracareers  portal

Brainstormig session to discuss new applications of DES, with the participation of a Post-Doc researcher from iMed.ULisboa

November 21, 2018

The Des.solve team invited a scientist from an external institution to a brainstorming session, in order to discuss new developments and applications for Deep Eutectic Solvents. The invited researcher was Liane Moura, a Post-Doctoral Fellow at iMed.ULisboa (Faculty of Pharmacy of University of Lisbon) and member of BioNanoScience group. Liane is focused on the development of nanovaccines and characterization of the immune modulatory effect in melanoma and breast cancer mouse models, and the possible application of DES as adjuvants in nanoparticle formation was discussed.

New publication in Journal of Chromatography A.

November 21, 2018

Human serum albumin (HSA) is an important biopharmaceutical agent that has the capacity to carry diverse molecules and increase their circulation half-life time, but also to function as a disease biomarker.

Different chromatographic and non-conventional approaches for its purification were explored by Raquel dos Santos together with Carina Figueiredo, Aline Viecinski, Ana Pina, Arménio Barbosa and Cecília Roque and are now published in the Journal of Chromatography A.