6th OCTOBER
9h00-9h45 | Registration
9h45-10h00 | Opening session - Miguel Seabra, Coordinator of the PhD in Health Sciences, NOVA Medical School
- Session 1 - Stem cells, development and neuromuscular (dys)function
10h00-11h00 | Keynote session 1 - Leonor Saúde, GIMM (45min + 15min Q&A): "Swimming towards healing: zebrafish as a model for spinal repair"
11h00-11h30 | Coffee break
11h30-12h30 | Selected oral communications from abstracts & discussion (4 oral presentations 10min + 5min Q&A)
- Ana Rita Colaço - From injury to recovery: mechanisms for adaptive motor plasticity upon leg amputation
- Dúnio Jácome-Pacheco - Preserving joint line orientation in TKA improves short- to mid-term outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Micael de Jesus Almeida - DAND5 PSCs models, bioinformatics Discovery and functional validation of downstream enablers of cardiomyocyte differentiation
- Tiago Baptista - A Mediator-dependent hypertranscriptional program governs neural stem cell fate decisions in vivo
12h30-13h00 | Presentation of NOVA Doctoral School - Catarina Ruivo, NOVA Doctoral School
13h00-14h00 | Lunch break
- Session 2 - Brain, Vision, and Neurological (dys)function
14h00-15h00 | Keynote session 2 - Patrícia Monteiro, FMUP (45min + 15min Q&A): "Turning Discovery into Therapy: Lessons from Autism Preclinical Research"
15h00-16h00 | Selected oral communications from abstracts & discussion (4 oral presentations 10min + 5min Q&A)
- Ana Rosa Abreu - Intranasal administration as a promising route for the treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Inês F. de Almeida - Carotid Body Cryoablation as a Strategy to Modulate Parkinson’s Related Phenotypes in Thy1-aSyn Transgenic Mice
- Beatriz Felgueiras - In Vitro Modeling of Early Diabetic Retinopathy with Retinal Organoids for Drug Discovery
- Luís Sousa - Machine learning-based gait analysis identifies insulin-degrading enzyme as key link between diabetes and Parkinson's disease
16h00-16h30 | Coffee break
16h30-18h00 | Poster Session
7th OCTOBER
9h30-10h00 | Registration
- Session 3 - Cardiometabolic and systemic health (dys)function
10h00-11h00 | Keynote session 3 - Paulo Oliveira, CNC (45min + 15min Q&A): "Mitochondrial Follies in Cardiac Aging and Dysfunction"
11h00-11h30 | Coffee break
11h30-12h30 | Selected oral communications from abstracts & discussion (4 oral presentations 10min + 5min Q&A)
- Adriana M. Capucho - Carotid Bodies: Innovative Players in Feeding Behavior Modulation
- Estefania Torrejón - EV-Net: Extracellular vesicles-mediated intercellular communication networks in disease pathophysiology
- Inês S. Ferreira - Disrupted Macrophage Homeostasis by Oxidized Lipids: Uncovering Mechanistic Links to Atherosclerosis
- Sílvio Leal - Unveiling the OPTI-PE Program: Insights into Hemodynamic Outcomes of Catheter-Derived Therapy for Acute Pulmonary Embolism
12h30-13h30 | Lunch break
- Session 4 - Cancer and Health Promotion
13h30-14h30 | Keynote session 4 - Ana Luísa Correia, Champalimaud Foundation (45min + 15min Q&A): "Can we keep cancer asleep?"
14h30-15h30 | Selected oral communications from abstracts & discussion (4 oral presentations 10min + 5min Q&A)
- Bruna F. Correia - Exploring the role and therapeutic value of immunosuppressive low-density neutrophil subsets in breast câncer
- Isabel Lemos - Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) drives metabolic remodeling modulating cancer cell proliferation, quiescence, and chemoresistance
- Maria Gonçalves-Reis - Early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma: A pilot-validation of a liquid biopsy tool
- Ricardo Rodrigues - Macrophages influence response to combined Dabrafenib plus Trametinib therapy in Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
15h30-16h00 | Coffee break
16h00-17h30 | Poster Session
17h30-18h00 | Best Oral and Poster Prize Award & Closing session - Paula Macedo, Coordinator of the PhD in Biomedicine, NOVA Medical School