On the first week of August, IBEB’s professor and researcher Daniela Godinho was part of a group of professors teaching courses at the XIX Cátedra Internacional de Ingeniería of Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL), in Bogotá, Colombia. The course “Biomaterials and their application in health” was organised with David Rodriguez-Duarte from Politecnico Read more
The paper “Deep learning in breast cancer risk prediction: a review of recent applications in full-field digital mammography”, recently published in Frontiers in Oncology, reviews state-of-the-art techniques for Breast Cancer Risk Prediction using Deep Learning. This work, developed by IBEB’s PhD student João Mendes and undergraduate students Bernardo Oliveira, Carolina Read more
Professor and integrated member of IBEB Alexandre Andrade published his most recent work, “Brain-breathing interaction during MRI-related anxiety”, in Clinical Neurophysiology. This paper is both a tribute to the eminent neurologist Prof. Lopes da Silva and the description of a model describing the interaction of brain and respiratory activity, especially in Read more
IBEB’s researcher Anna Letournel published her most recent work “Biomechanical Characterisation of Gait in Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Inertial Sensor-Based Motion Capture” in Bioengineering.
Researcher João M. P. Coelho and Professor Hugo Ferreira, both integrated members of IBEB and PhD student Mariana Neves Amaral published their latest work in the field of photothermal cancer therapy. The article “Gold nanoparticle-mediated photothermal therapy: Expanding the frontiers of cancer treatment and theragnostics“ was published in the journal Read more
Ms Rafaella Coelho has just been granted a PhD scholarship in the 2025 Call for PhD Studentships – Regular Line of Application from FCT, with project “Study of dielectric properties of biological tissue and tissue mimicking materials for optimal development of electromagnetic-based medical devices”, under the supervision of Dr Raquel Read more
IBEB has been granted 3 projects by FCT from 2 calls. Dr Brígida Ferreira and Dr Diana Prata were successful at the Exploratory Projects in All Scientific Domains 2024 call with projects: “RObust Biological trEatment planning in Radiation TherApy for pancreatic cancer” (ROBERTA) (in the Bioengineering and Biotechnology Panel) and Read more
Professors and PhD students from IBEB participated in the 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), which took place from July 14–17 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Professor Sofia Fernandes contributed to the organisation of a symposium dedicated the most up-to-date research on magnetic stimulation Read more
Professor and integrated member of IBEB João M. P. Coelho and master’s students Diogo Novas and Alessandro Fortes published their latest work in the field of photothermal cancer therapy system development. The article “Proof of Concept of an Integrated Laser Irradiation and Thermal/Visible Imaging System for Optimized Photothermal Therapy in Read more
Between July 7 to 11, IBEB hosted Dr Declan O’Loughlin as part of an ERASMUS+ mobility programme. Dr O’Loughlin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and a Principal Investigator at the Trinity Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Throughout the week, Dr Read more