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 […]
A delegation from Universidade Católica travelled to Saudi Arabia to visit and establish contacts with various universities and meet with members of government and research bodies. Comprising the President – Isabel Capeloa Gil, the Vice-Rector – Nelson Ribeiro, the Director of the Faculty of Biotechnology – Paula de Castro, the Vice-Director of the Católica Medical School […]
On Wednesday, November 19th, from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM, the first Clinical Session at Hospital da Luz featuring medical students will take place – an important milestone in the collaboration between the Hospital and the Católica Medical School. This session will focus on the clinical rotation in General and Family Medicine within the Católica […]
Coordinated by Mara de Sousa Freitas, with expert trainers from the Network for Education on Research Quality (NERQ), this training offered a unique opportunity to explore the ethical foundations of research, address grey areas in everyday practice, and engage with emerging topics such as artificial intelligence, open science, and reproducibility. The opening session featured Peter […]
Portuguese researchers are testing ways to block the influenza A virus before it causes infection, which could pave the way for new antiviral drugs for several viruses against which there are still no vaccines. “If the methodology we are developing works for the influenza virus, it is possible that it will also work for other […]
The structural changes needed to enable responsible research practices, the role of institutions in promoting cultures of integrity, and the ethical challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence will be some of the topics highlighted at the conference “Responsible Science: Building a Culture of Integrity in Research”, organized by the Institute of Bioethics of the Catholic University of […]
The Católica Doctoral School (CADOS) of Universidade Católica Portuguesa in collaboration with the Transform4Europe Alliance (T4EU) organizes the “Around Writing Series”, a trilogy of interactive Science Communication workshops designed to help PhD students enhance their academic writing through creativity, collaboration, and reflection. More than a training course, the “Around Writing Series” is a laboratory of ideas where participants co-create knowledge, experiment with writing tools, […]
Kick-off webinar – November 12th – 10:00 AM The CoARA Boost Project “Teaming for self-evaluation in research assessment across scales: from researchers to institutions “is launching to co-develop and implement a structured approach to ethics self-evaluation in research assessment. The project is coordinated by RDA Europe, and it is centred on the CoARA-ERIP Ethics Self-Assessment Checklist. The […]
The study entitled “Simulated Patients as Evaluators in Admission Interviews: Reliability Analysis”, presented by Rodrigo Sousa in co-authorship with Paulo Oom and Sanne Schreurs, was recognized at the 5th National Congress of Clinical Communication in Healthcare, held under the theme “Clinical Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”. The event was organized by the Portuguese Society for Clinical Communication in […]
