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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

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

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

On May 28 and 29, the Cine Theater of Alcobaça hosted the Meeting of Mental Health of the Region of Leiria entitled (Psycho) Humanize: when the invisible becomes essential, whose aim was to address issues that help to understand, work and destigmatize mental illness, promoting the global health of the population. Marlene Rosa, ciTechCare researcher in neurosciences and founder of the Agilidades projec led a workshop on Ludotherapy, helping to understand its role in mental health. José Carlos Gomes, researcher at ciTechCare specialized in mental health and PhD in Public Health, also integrated this event in the panel ‘Intervention in