Sam Izadloo, a student at Católica Medical School, participated in the Call for Projects in the Student category with his project Dermamatica, supervised by CAC-CL Executive Director Ana Rita Constante, which also participated as a speaker at this conference. The Digital Health Summit 2025 took place on December 10th and December 11 at the University […]
The Católica Medical School (CMS) is partnering with the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL) to offer the course “Statistics and Data Science in Medicine”, a program designed for healthcare professionals and researchers who wish to strengthen their skills in data analysis applied to medicine. The course, promoted by comCiências – FCUL, is […]
Applications are now open for a representative on the Transform4Europe (T4EU) Student Council. The selected candidate will represent students from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa on this T4EU body, which is responsible for promoting the interests, needs and opinions of Alliance students. The Student Council is comprised of students from all T4EU member universities, and it aims to […]
Sara Silva Pereira has led the Parasite-Vasculature Interactions Laboratory since 2023, integrated into the Católica Biomedical Research Centre, where she investigates how African trypanosomes, parasites responsible for sleeping sickness, interact with mammalian hosts. Sara Silva Pereira, a researcher at the Católica Biomedical Research Centre (CBR) and lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidade […]
Dermamatica, the startup founded by Sam Izadloo — a student at Católica Medical School — has won the “Most Promising Startup” award at the 929 Challenge in Macau! The 929 Challenge brings together participants from China and Portuguese-speaking countries through Macau, fostering connections, collaboration, and the development of sustainable solutions. The 929 Challenge is co-organized […]
Science and Technology Week aims to bring the public closer to our scientists, to the work they do, and to the impact that work has on advancing knowledge and improving society’s well-being — and Católica Biomedical Research Centre (CBR) is proud to join this effort! This week includes the National (Portuguese) Day of Scientific Culture, celebrated […]
At this conference, the Católica Medical School was represented by Débora Oliveira (Mobility, Cooperation and International Relations), who joined the Portuguese delegation at the invitation of the Embassy of Canada in Portugal. This prestigious international event marked the first joint participation of national Higher Education institutions and the Erasmus+ National Agency. Under the theme “The […]
On World Diabetes Day, Professor Daniel Macedo, from the Católica Medical School, took part in a segment on RTP where he discussed a recent study published in the journal Diabetologia. The research presents an innovative technique that may accelerate wound healing in people with diabetes, one of the most frequent and difficult complications to treat. In […]
Dermamatica, an emerging health-tech platform created to improve and accelerate early detection of skin cancer, was presented this week at Web Summit by its founder, Sam Izadloo – a student from Católica Medical School whose work has been rapidly attracting the attention of clinicians, investors, and technology leaders worldwide. Developed to support primary care doctors at […]
Between 2022 and 2025, the number of former students from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa who create start-ups each year has more than tripled, rising from 231 alumni in 2022 to 807 this year. The data comes from Startup Portugal, which four years ago began to present the annual Portugal’s Entrepreneurial Universities Ranking, an analysis of […]
