On November 27, Pedro Machado successfully defended his doctoral examination entitled “OncoEnergy: Effect of a preoperative exercise training program on quality of life after colorectal and lung cancer surgery”, in Coimbra. He is the first research fellow who completed the PhD at ciTechCare.

Pedro Machado has dedicated his research work to the study of the potential effect of physical exercise on postoperative quality of life in patients with colorectal and lung cancer, as a PhD student in Sports Sciences at the Faculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education of the University of Coimbra and ciTechCare research fellow.

His recognition has been highlighted over the past years, receiving several awards both nationally and internationally, and also as a result of being the principal researcher of OncoEnergy project, funded by FCT since 2020.