In this year's edition of the #expofct at FCT-NOVA, we explained our projects. Students were able to see the work of the e-nose device from the #SCENT_project and its application for disease detection from the #AccuseD_project. And learning more about the importance of the efficient bioseparation of biopharmaceutical drugs, which is the aim of the #PURE_project. Moreover, we showed the versatility of proteins' application in sensing and production of the smart bio-based materials, which is the main objective of the #Sea2See_project.

On February 18th our master student Rita Alves successfully defended her thesis as a part of her Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering at NOVA School of Science and Technology.  Her work was entitled "Time series analysis and machine learning algorithms for an e-nose sensor", developed under the supervision of Dr. Susana Palma and Prof. Hugo Gamboa. Congratulations Rita and we wish you all the best!

We are very happy to share that we have a new Master!

Last week, Joana Calvário successfully defended her Master thesis entitled "Production and characterization of Odorant Binding Proteins", work supervised by Prof. Cecília Roque and Dr. Arménio Barbosa. Congratulations to Joana, we wish you all the best!

Great news to start 2022! Congratulations to the authors of this work! You can access the artice here: https://bit.ly/3zqo5X9

Last week we had the pleasure to host Prof. Alois Jungbauer from BOKU - Universität für Bodenkultur Wien and Head of Institute of Bioprocess Science and Engineering.

Congratulations to Dr. Arménio Barbosa for winning the Flash Presentation Award from ISPPP 2021 with his work on "Molecular modeling on the discovery of synthetic affinity-adsorbents"! Prof. Cecília Roque also took part in the symposium with the talk "Affinity magnetic precipitation for antibody purification".