Event News

From 30th of Janury untill 10th of February, Instituto Superior Técnico will host the course "Biomedical Devices and Technologies". 

This is an elective course that unfolds under the key area of Bioengineering Systems of the MIT-Portugal Program (MPP) and will  bring together experts from Academia, Medicine and Industry with the objective of providing an integrated and comprehensive perspective of the addressed topics. Session are open to the public upon prior registration at the website http://biomechatronics.ist.utl.pt/eventscourses/mit201112/ : 

• Human Movement Simulation and Analysis - M. T. Silva, IST, MIT
• The Impact of a Bioengineer in the Orthopaedic Field - Manuel Cassiano Neves, CUF Descobertas
• Conservative Hip Surgery: Present and Future Challenges - Paulo Rego, HL
• Computational Modelling of Orthopaedic Devices - P. Fernandes, IST
• Prosthetic Devices for the Lower and Upper Limbs: Present and Future - R. Marcelino, Otto Bock
• Tissue Characterization by Image Analysis for Diagnostic Purposes -J. Sanches, IST
• Neuroimaging: from methods to applications - P. Figueiredo, IST
• Human Factors of Biomedical Devices - L. Young, MIT
• Powered Leg Prostheses and Orthoses - M. Williams, MIT; H. Herr, MIT
• Hybrid Human - D. Newman, MIT
• Towards more natural Human-Robot Interaction - E. Bicho, UMinho
• Microsystems Technologies for Implantable Devices - L. Rocha, UMinho

The course is organized by Miguel Silva (IST), Jorge Martins (IST) and Dava Newman (MIT)

Over a two day period, from September 30th to October 1st, the first year PhD and Master’s students of the MIT Portugal Program had an in-depth, hands-on opportunity to learn about, and practice, how to become innovators and entrepreneurs. The session was organized by Luis Perez-Breva from MIT, and was based on his experience teaching innovation “hands-on” at MIT, within MIT-Portugal (through the bio-innovation module and Bio-Teams), and within other MIT international programs. In a truly “boot-camp” fashion, the participants deep-dived intensively, and in an interactive way, into the innovation theme.

Final presentations of the 4^th Edition of the Bio-Innovation Teams

This year's BioTeams 2011 took place in the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Lisbon, on July 13^th. The 4^th Edition of the Bio-Innovation Teams (BioTeams) gathered an audience of PhD students, principal investigators, industry representatives and Sponsors. Bioteams is a mandatory course of the advanced program in Bioengineering Systems of the MIT Portugal Program, with very particular characteristics. During a full semester the students are given real technologies, selected from Portuguese labs, and are asked to engage in a search to evaluate and exploit their market potential.

MIT Portugal: Fostering Science and Technology based University-Industry Relationships

On July 6^th, São Jorge Cinema in Lisbon was the setting for “This is America”, an event organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Portugal that included a session entitled "MIT Portugal: Fostering Science and Technology based University -Industry Relationships."  The session was conducted by the National Director of the MIT Portugal Program, Professor Paulo Ferrão, who along with Robin Lemp (Assistant Director of MIT Portugal Program at MIT) and Graça Didier (American Chamber of Commerce in Portugal) greeted the attendants. An impressive and diverse group of speakers, both from academia and the business world, were present at the event, whose purpose was to explain how the partnerships created between Portuguese universities, industry, and MIT, within the context of the MIT Portugal Program, are creating value to the Portuguese economy.