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ciTechCare researchers join COST Action to improve community mobility

4 October 2024

Vanda Pedrosa and Elisabete Roldão, researchers at ciTechCare in Occupational Therapy and lecturers at the School of Health Sciences of Polytechnic University of Leiria, ESSLei, integrates the team of the COST Action entitled ‘Creating opportunities for participation and accessibility through lifelong community mobility’. This COST Action aims to promote advances in the development of scientific knowledge through a transnational collaborative network with the aim of developing a global framework to guide European and national processes in the fields of the reform of driving and accessible and usable transports for the elderly, allowing a more active and healthy aging. Approved in

Maria Guarino moderates a Meetup in Healthtech

4 October 2024

VOID Software hosted a networking event on September 26, bringing together healthcare, engineering and technology professionals to address new ways of increasing the efficiency and accessibility of healthcare, improve the quality of care and support better management of health and patient outcomes, using artificial intelligence, robotics, telemedicine or medical devices. Maria Guarino, coordinator of ciTechCare, moderated this technological Meetup applied to health, which counted on the participation of José Paulo Carvalho, founder of Hope Care, SA and prominent figure in the digital health sector for creating advanced solutions in Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Digital Therapies (DTx), Hugo Plácido da

Flávio Costa participates in the largest global meeting on celiac disease

2 October 2024

The research technician working in CeliAct(TIV) project, Flávio Costa, participated in the biennial meeting of the International Society for Study of Celiac Disease (ISSCD), the largest global meeting in the field of celiac disease and gluten-mediated human disease, for health professionals, researchers, scientists and others important entities, such as the food industry, which allows understanding the disease, from a multidisciplinary perspective. The symposium was held in Sheffied, UK, from the 5th to the 7th of September 2024, where Flávio Costa had the opportunity to present the e-poster “Celiac Disease Related Gut Commensal Bacteria And Its Potential In Degrading Gliadins,” showing

ciTechCare marks World Lung Day

1 October 2024

It was marked on September 25, the World Lung Day, which aims to raise awareness of the world population for respiratory diseases – which, in Portugal, represent the third cause of death. To highlight this day, Pedro Machado, PhD student at ciTechCare, made a presentation about the work he has been developing within his doctoral project – OncoEnergy: Effect of a preoperative exercise training program on quality of life after colorectal and lung cancer surgery. Pedro Machado is the principal investigator of the OncoEnergy project, funded by FCT since 2020 and whose main objective is to assess the feasibility and

MorphoPlay project marks its end with an open event

27 September 2024

On September 5th, the auditorium of the School of Health Sciences of Polytechnic of Leiria (ESSLei) hosted the closing workshop of the MorphoPlay project, an event opened to the envolved community, in particular, but also to those interested in learning more about this project. During the session the project team talked about the serious game construction process, the challenges in data collection and data analysis and the commitment for the future, which will need more funding. The MorphoPlay project, funded since 2023 by the Foundation for Science and Technology, resulted in a joint collaborative work between ciTechCare, Linguist Center of

Spread awareness, prevent antimicrobial resistance – A science swing session

5 September 2024

On July 19, Catarina Marques and Katie Phair were the invited speakers of the Science Swing session dedicated to raising awareness and preventing antimicrobial resistance. ‘Prevention is Better than cure? A contribution of infection prevention and control’ was the theme presented by Catarina Marques, PhD fellow at ciTechCare in Occupational Safety and Health, focusing on measures to prevent pathogens with multidrug resistance spread in long-term care units. On the other hand, Katie Phair, PhD student at the South East Technological University, in Ireland, attending during 2 month the Erasmus programme at ciTechCare, brought to the audience the topic ‘Safe food