CINTESIS/NOVA Medical School Researchers Win Award
A team of researchers from CINTESIS/NOVA Medical School won the most recent edition of the Healthy Living Awards, with the "Project of the year in Clinical Nutrition". The awarded project is entitled "Intermittent energy restriction ameliorates adipose tissue-associated inflammation in adults with obesity: a randomised controlled trial". It is part of the Master's thesis in Human Nutrition and Metabolism of [...]
HOMEDEM European Network Opens Call for Doctoral Students to Work on Design and Dementia
CINTESIS, through its researchers at the University of Aveiro, is part of the European PhD Network HOMEDEM - Co-designing a Home with Dementia, aimed at providing specialized interdisciplinary training in design and dementia care to a new generation of early career researchers. Oscar Ribeiro and Liliana Sousa (CINTESIS@RISE) and Rita Maldonado Branco (ID+) are the Portuguese researchers involved in this [...]
MOAI LABS Reaches Out to Older Adults to Discuss Isolation and Potential of the Digital World
MOAI LABS, a project with the participation of CINTESIS, organized a territorial awareness campaign to discuss the challenges of loneliness and social isolation in older adults, focusing on the potential of the digital world. Another of the goals of this event, entitled "Connect 2 Older People", which took place in November, was to publicize the project and the main results [...]
Volunteers with Type 2 Diabetes Can Use New Mobile Application for Personalized Advice on Diet and Lifestyle
A team from CINTESIS and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) is recruiting persons with type 2 diabetes to participate in a study that will help them manage and control the disease. The “Food Friend” project will develop and test a mobile application that will automatically monitor food intake and physical activity, providing personalized feedback on [...]
Catarina Rosa: “As researchers, we must respond to the challenge of rethinking approaches to mental health”
Catarina Rosa is a researcher at CINTESIS/University of Aveiro since 2013. She is a member of the AgeingC group, where she stands out for her research in the area of maladaptive strategies of emotional regulation, namely rumination, and, more recently, in a project on ideologically motivated hate crimes. She was born 44 years ago in Coimbra but has lived most [...]
2.1 Million for a Vaccine Against Advanced Tumors
A team of Portuguese researchers has raised 2.1 million euros to develop a new treatment against advanced tumors. The project, the first of its kind in Portugal, brings together the Portuguese company Stemmaters, the Portuguese Institute of Oncology of Porto (IPO-Porto), the NOVA School of Science and Technology at the NOVA University of Lisbon (FCT NOVA) and CINTESIS - Center [...]