Future Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering: Advances and Innovation
It is with great pleasure that we invite you to be a part of the Symposium in Biomedical Engineering, integrated on the 6th Doctoral Congress in Engineering (DCE), which will be hosted at FEUP, Porto, Portugal on June 30 and July 1, 2025.
This Symposium aims to transfer knowledge between FEUP and other national and international participants, encouraging them to present their ongoing research and promote networking. Work presentations can be done in both oral and poster formats. The event is mainly focused on the participation of doctoral students, yet master students, postdoctoral researchers, and other professionals are welcome to submit their work.
With the motto “Future Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering: Advances and Innovation” this symposium provides a valuable forum for researchers and students to engage in discussions on cutting-edge scientific and technological developments in Biomedical Engineering. It offers an exceptional opportunity to share ideas, gain valuable insights, and network with experts in the field.
Topics for submission include (but are not limited to):
- Bioimaging and radiation;
- Bioinformatics;
- Biomechanics;
- Biomedical devices;
- BioRobotics;
- Computer Modelling;
- Computer Vision;
- Information Management and Hospital Equipment.
- Nanobiotechnology;
- Neuroscience/Neuroengineering;
- Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials;
Other subfields related to Biomedical Engineering are also accepted, please contact the committee for additional clarifications.
This Symposium is organized by PhD students of the Doctoral Program in Biomedical Engineering (PRODEB) at FEUP, with the support of the Associate Laboratories i3S, INESC-TEC, REQUIMTE-LAQV, LAETA and R&D unit LEPABE.
The Symposium Committee invites you to present your ongoing research or recent findings and be part of this dynamic scientific exchange.
Submissions
|| Deadline for abstracts submission: 24th of April, 2025 ||
Submissions of the abstracts must be done via the SCI-MEET platform. For more information, please check the ‘Registration’ page.
Please follow the abstract template (maximum 1 page) according to the Instruction for Authors available under the Registration page.
It will be accept submissions for Oral communication and/or Poster presentation. Each presenter can submit up to 2 abstracts.
Registration & Payment
Registration is mandatory for all participants through the SCI-MEET Platform.
The Doctoral Program in Biomedical Engineering (PRODEB) will cover the registration costs for any PRODEB student from FEUP. For any questions, please email up202011515@edu.fe.up.pt (Miguel Rodrigues).
Abstracts will be included in the Book of Abstracts only if at least one author of each accepted abstract is registered and has paid the registration fee (attended the event). Please note that at least one author per submitted abstract (oral or poster communication) must register for Congress as soon as possible to secure participation.
Communications
Oral communication:
- Prepare a PowerPoint presentation to support your talk.
- An editable PowerPoint template will be available soon.
- Language: Presentations and slides must be in English.
- The PowerPoint template is mandatory for oral communications.
Poster communication:
- The poster exhibition will be held in FEUP’s B Corridor, where posters will be displayed on the corridor windows.
- Posters should be formatted in portrait mode, size A1 (841 mm height × 594 mm width).
- Language: Posters must be in English.
- An editable poster template will be available soon.
- The poster template is mandatory for posters communications.
Publications
All accepted abstracts, with at least one author registered in the Congress with a paid fee, will be included in the event’s program and the Symposium Book of Abstracts.
Awards
Authors of accepted abstracts presented at the Congress will be eligible for the Best Oral and Best Poster Communication Awards.
Symposium Committees
Symposium Chairs:
- Maria Ascensão Ferreira Silva Lopes, FEUP
- Maria Pia de Melo Alvim Ferraz Tavares, FEUP
Symposium Organizing Committee:
- Maria Ascensão Ferreira Silva Lopes, FEUP
- Maria Pia de Melo Alvim Ferraz Tavares, FEUP
- Caio Fernando Cardoso Souza, PhD Student PRODEB, FEUP
- Miguel Ângelo Azenha Rodrigues, PhD Student PRODEB, FEUP
Symposium Scientific Committee:
- Alexandra Manuela Vieira da Cruz Pinto Alves, FEUP
- Ana Maria Rodrigues de Sousa Faria de Mendonça, FEUP
- Cristina Carvalho Barrias, i3S
- Fernando Jorge Mendes Monteiro, FEUP
- Joana Angélica de Sousa Loureiro, FEUP
- João Manuel Patrício Pedrosa, FEUP
- João Paulo Trigueiros da Silva Cunha, FEUP
- Joaquim Gabriel Magalhães Mendes, FEUP
- Maria Ascensão Ferreira Silva Lopes, FEUP
- Maria Pia de Melo Alvim Ferraz Tavares, FEUP
- Miguel Fernando Paiva Velhote Correia, FEUP
- Paula Parreira, i3S
- Pedro Lopes Granja, i3S
- Renato Manuel Natal Jorge, FEUP
- Victoria Leiro, i3S
Contact: up202011515@edu.fe.up.pt (Miguel Rodrigues)
Local: Room B024
Date: Monday, June 30th, 2025 | 18h00-18h30
Keynote Lecture
Turning Sweet in Oncology: glycans as regulators of cancer development with clinical implications
Salomé Pinho
Immunology, Cancer & GlycoMedicine Group leader, i3S-UP
Biography
Salomé Pinho developed her PhD research at the Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of Univ. Porto (IPATIMUP) and at Boston Medical School, MA, USA from 2006 to 2009. She performed her postdoctoral work at University of Porto in the glycobiology and glyco-immunology fields. Presently, she is a Principal Investigator and Group leader at i3S-Institute for Research and Innovation in Health at University of Porto, Portugal and affiliated Professor at Faculty of Medicine at University of Porto. The goal of her research group is to disentangle the spatiotemporal regulation of glycans in health and disease and to decipher its biological information to better understand its impact in defining the magnitude, the nature and the fate of the immune responses associated with inflammation, autoimmunity and cancer envisioning novel prognostic, diagnostic, and therapeutic strategies. She is author of several publications in international peer-reviewed journals including Nature Reviews Cancer, Nature Immunology, Gastroenterology, Science Translational Medicine, PNAS among many others. She has been awarded with prestigious grants funded by the Horizon Europe, ERC and the US Department of Defense (among others), and has been receiving important awards such as the Young Investigator Award from the European Association for Cancer Research (2012), The Pfizer award in Clinical research (2021) and the Glycobiology Significant Achievement Award (2020) by the American Society of Glycobiology, among other prizes and distinctions. She is currently the Vice-President of Portuguese Society of Immunology.
Local: Room B025
Date: Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 | 09h00-09h30
Keynote Lecture
AI as a Research Partner: Applications for Engineering PhD Candidates
João Pedro Pedroso
Associate Professor, FCUP – UP
Biography
João Pedro Pedroso was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1966, and is presently an associate professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto. He teaches courses on operational research, artificial intelligence, heuristic methods for optimization, and computer programming, at the Department of Computer Science. Research being carried out concerns mainly computational methods for tackling combinatorial optimization problems, often involving simulation and machine learning, with applications in decision support. He publishes and acts as a reviewer in leading international journals in the area and co-authored two books on computer programming for optimization.
The detailed event schedule will be announced soon.
The Symposium Committee invites you to present your ongoing research or recent findings and be part of this dynamic scientific exchange.
Submissions
|| Deadline for abstracts submission: 24th of April, 2025 ||
Submissions of the abstracts must be done via the SCI-MEET platform. For more information, please check the ‘Registration’ page.
Please follow the abstract template (maximum 1 page) according to the Instruction for Authors available under the Registration page.
It will be accept submissions for Oral communication and/or Poster presentation. Each presenter can submit up to 2 abstracts.
Registration & Payment
Registration is mandatory for all participants through the SCI-MEET Platform.
The Doctoral Program in Biomedical Engineering (PRODEB) will cover the registration costs for any PRODEB student from FEUP. For any questions, please email up202011515@edu.fe.up.pt (Miguel Rodrigues).
Abstracts will be included in the Book of Abstracts only if at least one author of each accepted abstract is registered and has paid the registration fee (attended the event). Please note that at least one author per submitted abstract (oral or poster communication) must register for Congress as soon as possible to secure participation.
Program
|| The full program will be available soon ||
Communications
Oral communication:
- Prepare a PowerPoint presentation to support your talk.
- An editable PowerPoint template will be available soon.
- Language: Presentations and slides must be in English.
- The PowerPoint template is mandatory for oral communications.
Poster communication:
- The poster exhibition will be held in FEUP’s B Corridor, where posters will be displayed on the corridor windows.
- Posters should be formatted in portrait mode, size A1 (841 mm height × 594 mm width).
- Language: Posters must be in English.
- An editable poster template will be available soon.
- The poster template is mandatory for posters communications.
Publications
All accepted abstracts, with at least one author registered in the Congress with a paid fee, will be included in the event’s program and the Symposium Book of Abstracts.
|| The Book of Abstracts will be available soon ||
Awards
Authors of accepted abstracts presented at the Congress will be eligible for the Best Oral and Best Poster Communication Awards.
Symposium Committees
Symposium Chairs:
- Maria Ascensão Ferreira Silva Lopes, FEUP
- Maria Pia de Melo Alvim Ferraz Tavares, FEUP
Symposium Organizing Committee:
- Maria Ascensão Ferreira Silva Lopes, FEUP
- Maria Pia de Melo Alvim Ferraz Tavares, FEUP
- Caio Fernando Cardoso Souza, PhD Student PRODEB, FEUP
- Miguel Ângelo Azenha Rodrigues, PhD Student PRODEB, FEUP
Symposium Scientific Committee:
- Alexandra Manuela Vieira da Cruz Pinto Alves, FEUP
- Ana Maria Rodrigues de Sousa Faria de Mendonça, FEUP
- Cristina Carvalho Barrias, i3S
- Fernando Jorge Mendes Monteiro, FEUP
- Joana Angélica de Sousa Loureiro, FEUP
- João Manuel Patrício Pedrosa, FEUP
- João Paulo Trigueiros da Silva Cunha, FEUP
- Joaquim Gabriel Magalhães Mendes, FEUP
- Maria Ascensão Ferreira Silva Lopes, FEUP
- Maria Pia de Melo Alvim Ferraz Tavares, FEUP
- Miguel Fernando Paiva Velhote Correia, FEUP
- Paula Parreira, i3S
- Pedro Lopes Granja, i3S
- Renato Manuel Natal Jorge, FEUP
- Victoria Leiro, i3S
Contact: up202011515@edu.fe.up.pt (Miguel Rodrigues)