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Bio-innovation Teams Final 2012 "Bio-Teams: from the laboratory to the market"

10-07-2012

Bio-innovation Teams Final 2012 "Bio-Teams: from the laboratory to the market"

MIT PORTUGAL, Bioengineering Systems focus area
Luso-American Development Foundation | 12th July | 14H00-18H00
(Fundação Luso-Americana; Rua Sacramento à Lapa, 21  - Lisboa)

Final Presentations of the 5th Edition of the Bio-Innovation Teams, an event organized by the MIT-Portugal Program Bioengineering focus area, on thursday, July 12th, 14H00-18H00 at FLAD – Luso-American Development Foundation
 
The Bio-Innovation Teams project is integrated on the Advanced Study Course of the MIT-Portugal Program Bioengineering focus area.
The PhD students work in teams during one semester with a technology elected from Portuguese research labs.
The specific goal of the team work is to build a go-to-market strategy for the breakthroughs emerging from those labs.
 
The participation is free of charge, but in order to facilitate the organization of the event, we appreciate if you to register at the Bio-Innovation Teams Conference on:
http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/bio-teams-mit-portugal/

PROGRAM

14:00 - 14:15 The Bio-Teams concept
14:15 - 14:45 Plenary session I: Sérgio Simões, Vice-President Bluepharma - "Health Clusters"
14:45 - 15:15 Plenary session II: Manuel Rodrigues, CEO Biopremier - "Biopremier"
15:15 - 16:00 Bioteams projects 2012
- 15 min each, 8 min + 7 min questions -

1. "CandiDetection - Ensure your diagnostic"
Students: Cláudia Correia, Patrícia Morgado, Tomás Dias
PIs: Teresa Gonçalves (FMUC- CNC), Alexandra Carreira (ISA), Virgilio Loureiro (ISA)

2. "Dextrigel - Healing your bones"
Students: Ana Lima, Cristiana Faria, Marisa Santos
PI: Miguel Gama, Dina Silva (DEB-UMinho)

3. "Fermentum - Fermentation Technologies for value added beverages"
Students: João Monteiro, Rui Portela, Vijaykumar Dhadge
PIs: Filipe Macieira, Francisco Pereira (Fermentum, Lda.)

16:00 - 16:15 Coffee-Break
16:15 - 17:45 Bioteams projects 2012 (continuation)

4. "MediaOmics - More from your cells"
Students: Ana Guedes, Irina Simões, Magdalena Bober
PIs: Rui Oliveira, Filipe Ataíde (FCT/UNL)

5. "DACHOR - Freedom to walk"
Students: Ana Luísa Coito; Ana Sofia Silva; Inês Honorio
PIs: Miguel Tavares da Silva, Jorge Mateus Martins, Paulo Melo, Carlos Vasconcelos (IST/UTL)

6. PHYLOViZ - Software for graph visualization and analysis"
Students: Ricardo Costa, Gianluca Selvaggio
PIs: João Carriço (UMMI/FM, U.Lisbon), Alexandre Francisco (INESC-ID/IST), Cátia Vaz (INESC-ID/ISEL)

7. "BreathIT - Maximizing your safety"
Students: Daniel Simões, Jorge Pascoal, Sérgio Gonçalves
PIs: João Goulão Crespo, Isabel Coelhoso, Luísa Neves (FCT/UNL)

17:45 - 18:00 Closing Remarks

For further information: bio-innovation_teams@campus.fct.unl.pt