CEDOC has five ativities at Ciência Viva that explore some of the work developed by various groups and include animated videos to explain scientific research developed at CEDOC, video coverage of CEDOC labs and a reportage of LYSOCIL, targeted to all ages and in materials in Portuguese and in English.
The activities are the following:
- Doença de Parkinson, Lab of Hugo V. Miranda;
- Será que os metabolitos dos (poli)fenóis oriundos da nossa dieta chegam ao cérebro?, Lab of Cláudia N. Santos;
- Research on Rare Diseases | Investigação em Doenças Raras, LYSOCIL project, led by Duarte Barral and Susana Lopes;
- Healing, Stem Cells and Neuroinflammation, by Universidade Nova de Lisboa, featuring the Lab of António Jacinto, Catarina Homem and Cláudia N. Santos;
- During this COVID-19 pandemic times let's not forget the type 2 Diabetes epidemic, Lab of Cláudia N. Santos.

Find all our ativities at Ciência Viva website, with the keywork "CEDOC".

European Researchers’ Night will be taking place on Friday November 27.
Two Labs from CEDOC joined the European Researchers’ Night to share their discoveries and explain their research work, namely:
- Helena Canhão Lab and Patient Innovation team will present videos to showcase their work on an activity called "Sharing solutions, Improving life".
- Performing storytelling, Sílvia Conde Lab, will test your knowledge on Diabetes with a quiz, under the scope of the Neuronal Control of Metabolic Disturbances activity.

Find the programme HERE, details of this activities HERE and join these activities HERE.

Back for another year, in various cities among the world, including Lisbon, Braga, Coimbra and Évora, science is going to celebrated as part of European Researchers’ Night.

This science festival will be taking place on Friday November 27, with an entirely online programme. Nevertheless, although in a different manner, it will remain dynamic, interactive and fun!

Two Labs from CEDOC joined the European Researchers’ Night to share their discoveries and explain their research work.
Helena Canhão Lab and Patient Innovation team will present videos to showcase their work on an activity called "Sharing solutions, Improving life".
Performing storytelling, Sílvia Conde Lab, will test your knowledge on Diabetes with a quiz, under the scope of the Neuronal Control of Metabolic Disturbances activity.

Find the programme HERE and more information and direct links for the ativities HERE.
Hope to find you there!

Scientists in the COVID era – between confinement and reopening

Friday, May 12, at 5 pm, the 6 heads of the COLife institutes will talk live and answer questions about the role of science and scientists in the COVID19 era, the confinement and strategies for the reopening of institutions.

The 6 guest speakers will be:
- Paulo Pereira, President of the Executive Committee of CEDOC-NMS
- Cláudio Soares, Director of TQB NOVA - Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier
- Mónica Bettencourt-Dias, Director of the Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência
- Joe Paton, Director of Champalimaud Research
- Maria Mota, Executive Director of the Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes
- Pedro Cruz, Chief Technical Operations Officer of iBET - Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica

Stay tuned and watch the IV COLife webinar live and participate in the ITQB NOVA YouTube channel

Join us!