ECTS - Escola de Ciências e Tecnologias da Saúde

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Organic unit dedicated to teaching and research in the fields of Sciences and Technologies applied to health, including medicine, medical devices and nutrition

Director

Teacher Doctor Luís Monteiro Rodrigues

Presentation

The School of Health Sciences and Technologies (ECTS) of the Universidade Lusófona is the fundamental element of the educational project of this university in the fields of health, always affirmed in the coherence and quality, pedagogical and scientific of its initiatives, and sustained:

In laboratory teaching, essential for the development of a culture of "experimental teaching"
In the evaluation and permanent monitoring of quality

Bringing together multiple competences in different areas of human health, ECTS has been developing, in recent years, a wide range of training courses at the level of its undergraduate courses (1st cycle, 2nd cycle and Integrated Master's) while still maintaining close links with similar structures of Nursing and of Health Technologies taught at the Escola Superior de Saúde Ribeiro Sanches.

The set of activities of an advanced nature (postgraduate) carried out since 2003, fully conceived in the philosophy of Bologna, has special significance. This also reflects a vast investment in infrastructure, material and human, materialized over the last 10 years, demonstrating Lusófona's commitment to the development of these areas of "knowledge", making it possible to reinforce this technical and scientific rationality, which makes the Lusófona University an essential partner for the development of the health sector in the Portuguese-speaking world.

Research Units

The Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies (ULHT) has, since its beginning, paid the greatest attention to research and development (R&D) as fundamental instruments in its growth strategy in the various health domains. Thus, continuing the various initiatives that, in this context, were built over the years, it was formally created in 2011 o CBIOS - Center for Research in Biosciences and Health Technologies at Universidade Lusófona, where several I&D projects are developed, having as main areas of intervention:

Pharmacology and Toxicology
Safety and efficacy of topical products
Medicine Delivery
Nutrition and Food Sciences
chemistry and phytochemistry
Public and Environmental Health
Animal health
Nursing and Health Technologies

In this context, the potential (material and human) of the CBIOS is at the service of all training activities, especially in the Integrated Masters in Pharmaceutical Sciences and in the Degree in Nutrition Sciences, where students at an early stage can have contact with the I&D.

Publications

Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Research (BBR)

Trata-se da Newsletter of ECTS, regularly published since 2003. It is a generalist publication, aimed at specific audiences of ECTS (undergraduate, graduate and professional training), serving as a vehicle for information on its achievements, initiatives and expectations, technical, scientific, and cultural.

Facilities

The course's teaching activities take place on the Lusófona University Campus (Campo Grande-Lisboa) where there are all the necessary equipment and infrastructure for the theoretical and applied teaching of the subjects covered by the course's syllabus. The following equipment and facilities stand out:

Library Vítor de Sá
Library de Saúde

Laboratory of:

Clinical and Biological Analysis
Bioengineering
Biology
Clinical Biochemistry
Biochemistry
Microbiology
Biomedical Sciences
Galenic Pharmacy
Informatics and Computing
Computers and Electronics
Analytical chemistry
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Pharmaceutical technology

lab

Support System for Scientific and Technological Infrastructures

RISEBITESA - Network of Innovation in Services and Education in Biosciences and Health Technologies

Operation Code: LISBOA-01-0162-FEDER-001170
Eligible Investment: 1.816.275,46 € (in overbooking)
co-financing of PORLisboa: 726.510,18 € (in overbooking)

Description: This Operation aims to “consolidate to expand” innovation competencies in Health Sciences and Technologies of Escola de Ciências e Tecnologias da Saúde of the Lusófona University of Humanity and Technologies to the National Scientific and Technological System (SCTN) and to the national and international business fabric. Since 2007, the Nucleus of I&DT from the Department of Health Sciences, seed of the CBIOS, joined in Scientific-Based Pedagogical Programs with the Grupo das Clínicas S. João de Deus in the planning of a mobilizing and innovative pedagogical strategy including the acquisition and valorization of NMR-Magnetic Resonance equipment Nuclear and others (image mainly) in a biomedical research network. This network has hosted part of the Curricular Internships of Radiologists trained at ERISA- Ribeiro Sanches School of Health (remaining components of the Internships are in Public Hospitals- eg: S. José, Sta Maria-) in a protocolized network for the professionalization of finalist students.

The CBIOS is organized into two main research groups - the Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Technology Group (PTT) and the Food Science and Phytochemistry Group (FSP). Operation RISEBITESA made it possible to consolidate the considerable investments made by CBIOS in order to guarantee state-of-the-art monitoring, extending its intervention capacity to veterinary sciences, and to the Knowledge Transfer Centre, recently created and integrated into the CBIOS, with a TTO- Technology Transfer Officer, privileging the transfer of technologies to the productive sector. This Operation is intended to enhance intra and extra synergies at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidade e Tecnologias, for the benefit of society: members who form the bridge between research in Health Sciences and users, SCTN researchers, companies and customers -users of pharmacies, hospitals and clinics that are permanent host institutions for projects, including translational medicine. Only a scientific and technological infrastructure with modern equipment, accredited tests and a management system that ensures customer satisfaction will ensure the conditions for the development of skills in the technological and health management areas relevant to the competitiveness of companies in our business fabric. which will be able to absorb the technologies and results of research and/or the dissemination of knowledge in production.

To achieve these goals, CBIOS has developed an appropriate governance model (Business Intelligence and Business Performance Management). The CBIOS strategic plan for 2015-2020 is focused on (a) developing, promoting and disseminating research in the Intra-Institutional Network of Schools and Laboratories for Health Sciences and Technologies; (b) consolidate knowledge and skills of advanced business training in specific areas of health sciences and technologies; and (c) attract new national and international partners, partnerships and business contracts in greater numbers than the current one.

Start Date: 2007/01/18
Date of the conclusion: 2014/11/21