Interaction with Academia (other collaborating institutions)
Multiple collaborations with other members of Academia were maintained or set up with the main objectives of implementing research projects, co-supervising PhD students or writing up papers). Examples include Universities such as University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, University of Aveiro, University of Coimbra, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, NOVA University of Lisbon, among others, as well as various research centres within various universities, namely CERNAS (Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra) and CIEPQPF (University of Coimbra), CICECO (University of Aveiro).
Knowledge Transfer actions (Interaction with Industry)
- Cristina Cabral: Participated in the Face to Face Coordinator Meeting (Transnational Meeting) held for the purposes of the Erasmus+ Project entitled Enhancing the ENTRepreneurial mindset of non-business Academics in biopharmaceuticals manufacturing, Aveiro, Portugal, June 2022.
- Cristina Cabral: Europe (ENTRANCE) 2020-1-CY01-KA203-065982 held at the University of Beira Interior on the 4th of April Covilhã, Portugal (2022).
- Cristina Cabral: Entrepreneurship - Challenges from Research to Clinics”, February 12-15, Covilhã, Portugal (2023).
-Collaboration with Labfit and PIEP- Pólo de Inovação em Engenharia de Polímeros, under Project PAPILOMA;
- Merck KGaA - Exchange of materials; Services on the development of applications for new chromatographic prototypes (Oliver Rammo, Germany)
- BIA Separations – Exchange of materials; collaboration on the development of new chromatographic supports and methods; partners in approved projects (Urh Černigoj, Slovenia) - BIA Separations (provides monolithic chromatographic columns and modifies some columns with specific ligands to be explored in the purification of DNA vectors)
- Inocure (collaboration and co-supervision of a master thesis for the development of DNA vaccine delivery nanosystems)
- Sartorius (provides filtration and purification products to be explored in the obtention of DNA vectors for gene therapy of master and doctor thesis)
- Tosoh Bioscience GmbH, Deutschland, Scientific collaboration (contact: Egbert Müller, doctor thesis)
- ACIB GmbH (Austrian Center of Industrial Biotechnology), Petergasse 14, 8010 Graz, Austria, Scientific collaboration (contact: Alois Jungbauer; Rainer Hanh) (doctor thesis).
Clinical interactions
- Department of Ophthalmology, Centro Hospitalar de Leiria, Leiria, Portugal
- Cardiology Department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (PhD work plan of Sílvia Martins)
- Centro do Sangue e da Transplantação de Coimbra, Instituto Português do Sangue e da Transplantação, Coimbra, Portugal. (PhD work plan of Sílvia Martins)
- Flow Cytometry Unit, Department of Clinical Pathology, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (PhD work plan of Sílvia Martins)
- Clinical Pathology Laboratory of the Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu (dissertation)
- SYNLAB Health Alentejo SA (dissertation)
- Centro Hospitalar Universitário da Cova da Beira (Projet PAPILOMA)
- Study no. 35/2019 designated "Determination of the expression of circulating miRNAs in samples of blood samples from patients diagnosed with lung cancer”, Centro Hospitalar Universitário da Cova da Beira (project ORACLE)
Outreach activites (interaction with Society)
- Internship integrated in the Ciência Viva program in the laboratory – Scientific Occupation of Young People on Holidays, with the Project “Different therapeutic approaches against cervical cancer” for 4 secondary school students from various areas of the country (Aveiro, Porto, Leiria, Guarda).
- “Rally dos Biofármacos” workshop held during the week of Science and Technology, at CICS-UBI
- Bioinformatics for “dummies” – What is its role in drug discovery? - AJSTEAM Junior Academy, 2022
- Research Marathon, UNIGHT in the “UNITA edition” of the European Researchers' Night, 30 September 2022
- Hands-on NMR-based Metabolomics: principles, methods and applications”, 5 May 2022, CICS-UBI.
Interaction with Governance
Some of the Group members were invited to interact with governance in various settings:
Ilídio Correia, as a Member of FCT Evaluation Panel of Call for PhD Research Scholarships – 2022.
Fani Sousa and Carla Cruz: as Members of Project Review Panel - Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic, and as Project Assessment experts for National Innovation Agency (ANI);
Fani Sousa: as member of Project Assessment for Portuguese Agency for Investment and External Trade (AICEP).
In 2022, there were no interactions with governance, in terms of research projects.
Internationalisation
Several collaborations with partners (listed above) and with companies, namely, Merck KGaA (Oliver Rammo, Germany), BIA Separations (Urh Černigoj, Slovenia), Inocure, Sartorius, Tosoh Bioscience GmbH, Deutschland, Scientific collaboration (contact: Egbert Müller) and ACIB GmbH (Austrian Center of Industrial Biotechnology, Alois Jungbauer; Rainer Hanh).
Moreover, several incoming e outgoing visits, namely: i) outgoing visiting (Carla Cruz) under Project Programa Pessoa – FCT at Université de Bordeaux, Institut Européen de Chimie et Biologie (IECB), França (Gilmar Salgado, IECB, France); ii) visiting Professor ship (Cristina Cabral) within UVA Visiting Professor Program, University of Virginia, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Charlottesville, USA for a stay from 13/09/2022 – 18/09/2022 at the Department of Chemical Engineering; iii) incoming: Researcher David Scheich, from University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna/Research Group Hahn/Institute of Bioprocess Science and Engineering (September to November 2022)