Eventos

Rossella Laurano will present on March 8, 2023, at 4:30 pm, at the Américo Amorim Auditorium, a lecture entitled "Patient-personalized wound patches: key tools to achieve successful tissue healing".

Chronic skin wounds affect more than 40 million patients globally and represent a severe growing burden for the healthcare systems, with annual costs expected to exceed $18 billions by 2025. To satisfy the huge demand for effective wound care products, different types of wound dressings have been introduced on the market during the last decades. Furthermore, thanks to the advancements achieved in biomaterial design and processing, biotechnology, imaging and electronic fields, great effort has been devoted to the research and development of innovative formulations able to actively participate to tissue healing. Nevertheless, the lack of patient personalization results in wound dressings with reduced effectiveness. In this scenario, this talk describes the engineering of ad-hoc customizable formulations aiming at solving this critical issue and improving wound dressing capability to effectively enhance tissue healing.

Rossella Laurano (born in Torino, 31.03.1989) graduated in Biomedical Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin in 2014 with a Master’s thesis focused on the design of chitosan-based random and aligned nanofibrous membranes, with the aim to investigate the influence of substrate morphology on Schwann Cells adhesion and proliferation. After her Master’s Degree, Rossella worked in a startup company (Epinova Biotech srl, CEO Prof. F. Renò) as fellowship researcher focusing on thermoplastic scaffold fabrication through additive manufacturing technologies (Fused Deposition Modeling - FDM) for Tissue Engineering applications. In November 2016, Rossella moved back to Polytechnic of Turin, where, in July 2020, she obtained her Ph.D. in Bioengineering and Medical-Surgical Sciences (with honors) with a Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Stimuli-responsive poly(ether urethane) hydrogels for the design of smart patient-specific patches in skin wound treatment”. From August 2020 to December 2021, she worked as Post-Doc Researcher in the same institution in the framework of an Horizon 2020 project on the development of a bone tissue model as a preclinical evaluation tool under the supervision of Prof. G. Ciardelli. Since January 2022, she is a not-tenure researcher at Polytechnic of Turin.

Rossella’s research interests mainly focus on multi-functional biomaterial development, green functionalization procedures and biomaterial processing as bio-inks and mini-invasive delivery systems towards the engineering of patient-specific devices for wound healing and tissue-mimicking constructs as preclinical validation tools. This research activity has produced 16 research papers in international peer reviewed journals, 2 book chapters and 2 research awards from Gruppo Nazionale di Bioingegneria. In September 2022 Rossella was also awarded as Early Career Investigator-2022 from the International Society for Biofabrication as recognition for her contribution to the biofabrication field. She serves as Reviewer and Guest Editor for several international journals and as Topic Editor for Pharmaceutics journal. She has an H-index of 10 with around 300 citations (Google Scholar).

Já está agendado o Fórum do Clube do Investigador, uma nova iniciativa da FEP, especialmente desenhada para vós. Neste clube queremos envolver os estudantes em projetos de investigação em curso na FEP, desde a fase inicial da sua formação académica, gerando novas oportunidades para o seu enriquecimento curricular.

A sessão é de participação livre.

Agenda:

• Boas vindas: Luísa Mota Ribeiro, diretora do CEDH
• Apresentação de projetos por parte dos investigadores
• Perguntas & Respostas

A Católica Porto Business School tem o prazer de o convidar para uma aula aberta do Curso Executivo de Gestão Financeira, subordinada ao tema “Gestão Financeira ou Gestão da Incerteza?”.

O ano de 2022 iniciou-se com a confiança no fim da pandemia e com o Retorno do Crescimento. Terminou com a sustentação do consumo e o aumento da incerteza. Que lições tirar para a gestão dos riscos nomeadamente os riscos financeiros. Será que a inflação veio para ficar?  E as taxas de juro subirão até quando? E o valor dos ativos irá reduzir-se? E que importa isso para a gestão financeira das empresas?

A sessão vai ter lugar no próximo dia 8 de março, pelas 18h30, em formato online (via zoom), e será dinamizada por António Ramalho, Industry Fellow da Católica Porto Business School (CPBS) e ex-CEO do Novo Banco. A introdução estará a cargo do diretor do curso Associate Dean da CPBS com a responsabilidade da Formação para Executivos, Gonçalo Faria.

English below

No âmbito do International Studies Programme, são realizadas conferências abertas à comunidade com oradores convidados sobre temas específicos no âmbito do Direito Internacional e Europeu e das Relações Internacionais.

Com uma variedade de convidados de diferentes origens pessoais e profissionais, os ISP Dialogues fomentam e encorajam o pensamento crítico, contextos interdisciplinares, e uma abordagem abrangente e humanista tanto do Direito Internacional como do Direito Europeu e das Relações Internacionais.

A 6ª conferência do Spring Semester conta com a presença de Madalena Almeida Veiga - assessora jurídica e especialista em PESC do Serviço Europeu de Ação Externa, e é subordinada ao tema “European Union’s reaction to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine: legal and political challenges?”.

Realizar-se-á na Sala Porsche no Edifício Américo Amorim.

Entrada livre, com inscrição prévia.

Certificado de Participação

Caso seja aluno da UCP Porto e participe em, pelo menos, 10 de 12 sessões, pode obter o seu certificado de participação - “ISP Dialogues Spring Semester attendance certificate”

English

Within the International Studies Programme, open conferences to the community will be held with guest speakers on specific themes within the scope of international and European law and international relations.

With a variety of invitees from different personal and professional backgrounds, the ISP Dialogues will foster and encourage critical thinking, interdisciplinary contexts, and a comprehensive and humanistic approach of both International and European Law and International Relations.

The invitee of the 6th Dialogue is Madalena Almeida Veiga - Legal Advisor and CFSP expert at the European External Action Service (EEAS), within the theme “European Union’s reaction to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine: legal and political challenges?”.

Porsche Room - Américo Amorim Building.

The admission is free but requires previous registration.

Attendance Certificate

If you’re an UCP - Porto student and attend to, at least, 10 out of 12 sessions, you can get your ISP Dialogues Spring Semester attendance certificate.