Entrevista RTP1

An interview to Oeiras Valley about Biotechnology and its promises and relevance to Portugal, the Portuguese Biotech association and the collaboration with the Oeiras Municipality.

I had the opportunity to answer some questions for Health Europa about a tool we are developing to help liver cancer paints in finding the best treatment, in particular to ascertain their eligibility for curative intent surgical treatments. HepatoPredict: stratifying liver cancer patients for transplantation

I had the privilege to participate in a round table about collaborations between academia and industry promoted by Tech Labs during the celebration of the University of Lisbon’s 112th anniversary. A panel of people with different backgrounds (VC, Corporate, Start Ups) had strikingly different views, which I guess promises diverse possibilities of making this collaboration…

I had the pleasure to participate in a Juri for the first edition of the Internal Competition for Science Innovation Projects at the Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, a process which concluded with a final event on January 18th. I’ve seen impressive projects and wish the best success to all the teams involved. The…

I had the opportunity to discuss the trials and tribulations of moving from academia to becoming an entrepreneur with scientists attending the Career Opportunities forPostDoctoral Researchers inLife Sciences meeting in Cascais. I hope it was informative and maybe even inspiring. We need scientists to get out of their comfort zone to come out and change the world!

A new paper was just published by my Computational Genomics Group at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência –  CYR61 and TAZ Upregulation and Focal Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition May Be Early Predictors of Barrett’s Esophagus Malignant Progression. This was a collaborative study with clinicians from the the Lisbon Cancer Centre (Instituto Portugues de Oncologia de Lisboa), funded by a grant…