Sustainable gums developed at ciTechCare were highlighted at ISDH 2024
Luís Soares Luís participated at the International Symposium on Dental Hygiene, which took place from 11 to 13 July in Seoul, South Korea, where he presented the oral communication entitled “Sweet revolution: Xylitol and pear on anticariogenic gummy candies for sustainable oral health”, co-authored with researchers Henrique Luís, Ana Cristina Rodrigues and Marisa Gaspar. This work was developed in the scope of the FRUIGU project, and had the specific goal of promoting oral health from gums that have in their composition pear Rocha residues and Xylitol, a sweetener with anti-cariogenic activity already demonstrated. The sensory analysis performed allowed to observe
CiTechCare was present at the Portuguese Science Summit 2024
ciTechCare Senior Researcher Sónia Gonçalves Pereira and PhD students Catarina Marques and Katie Phair participated in the largest annual Science and Innovation event in Portugal, which was held from the 3rd to the 5th of July at Alfândega do Porto, under the theme “+Science for One Health and global well-being”. They joined the Portuguese Science Summit 2024 on the 4th of July to present a total of 5 e-posters regarding the projects their are working on at ciTechCare, under the guidance of the Senior Researcher. Sónia Gonçalves Pereira presented two e-posters that derived from CeliAct(TIV) project, one presenting the project layout and
Book on Physical Activity and Active Aging integrates strategies for using serious games
Marlene Rosa, researcher in the area of neurosciences at ciTechCare and founder of the project agilities, is co-author of the book ‘Physical Activity, Exercise, and Aging’, together with Raúl Antunes, Raquel Sousa and Rui Matos. This book was written by several professionals from the Sports Science field, but also researchers, professors or physicians in the scope of active and healthy ageing, and intends to be a useful resource to professionals in the field of Sports Sciences, as well as to Animators, Gerontologists, Social Workers, Psychologists, Sociologists and other professionals who deal daily with this population “It is, therefore, increasingly important
Project ‘Adolescer com Sentido’ reaches secondary education
Under the guidance of Teresa Kraus, researcher at ciTechCare and project coordinator, ESSLei nursing students went to Francisco Rodrigues Lobo Secondary School to address topics such as affections and sexuality education: a gap identified by health coordinators of several schools in the municipality of Leiria. During 3 sessions, students from the secondary school participated in interactive lectures on, for example, dating violence or unwanted pregnancy and highlighted that the fact that those sessions had been developed by young people of almost the same age and that “recently faced the same scenario”, facilitates the transmission of the message. The participants also
Perspectives in mental health – A science swing session
Bushra Rahman and José Carlos Gomes were the guest speakers of the Science Swing session, which took place at ciTechCare on June 13, at 10am, with the aim of sharing experiences in the field of mental health. Fellow of the Fulbright programme, Bushra Rahman holds a bachelor in Anthropology and Human Biology and a second major in Spanish & Portuguese and has developed several actions as an english teaching assistant at the Polytechnic of Leiria. The projects she was carrying out with children, as well as the concern with well-being and health care brought her to this session, which was
Ana Isabel Roque receives a Fulbright grant supported by FCT
PhD fellow at ciTechCare and PhD student in Biology at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the NOVA University of Lisbon, Ana Isabel Roque has won a Fulbright grant to study the involvement of commensal bacteria in celiac disease’s autoimmunity mechanisms at Harvard Medical School. As a visiting student researcher at Professor Fasano’s laboratory at the Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Harvard Medical School, and supported by the Fulbright Program, she plans to employ an intestinal organoid-bacteria co-culture model to infer if commensal bacteria can disrupt and translocate the intestinal epithelial barrier and contribute