The latest issue of “Exame Informática” highlights national startups that stand out in the healthcare fields. We are proud to announce that one of the focused startups is an INESC-ID startup: HeartGenetics, the digital health company that adds intelligence to genetic data.
The HeartGenetics CEO and INESC-ID researcher Ana Teresa Freitas gives a brief explanation about why Portugal is a good market test for the company products, even though its a market with a sales rate very low.
The Portugal Smart Cities Summit took place in Lisbon between 11th and 13th of April at the Centro de Congressos de Lisboa.
This is an event that brought together opportunities and exhibitions for conferences and networking, sharing knowledge about all sectors that involve the emerging concept of smart cities.
Representatives of the 308 municipalities were present, among exhibitors at the fair, participants in the conferences or visitors of the technological show.
INESC-ID participated with the Biklio app of the European project TRACE.
This is a unique event in Portugal with the showcase of approximately 200 innovative projects, of which 50 startups and the presence of representatives of the European Commission.
On the fourth edition of the IST PhD Open Days initiative, that took place on March 21st and 22nd at Salão Nobre of IST, Phd Students Renata Castelo Branco and Filipa Correia got, respectively, first and second place in the Pitch Competition.
Renata´s pitch, “Illustrated Algorithmic Design”, is within the frame of the research she´s being carrying out in the research group led by INESC-ID Researcher António Leitão, in Programming for Architecture.
Filipa´s presented “Collaboration in Social Robotics”, a research topic she has been exploring at GAIPS, group led by INESC-ID researcher, Ana Paiva.
The main goal of this event is offering the opportunity to more than 1.000 PhD students of socializing and sharing their research, skills and expertize not only with the rest of the academic community, but also with the several representative of companies that will be attending this event.
The Goals of the competition were:
On March 13, INESC I&DT units participated in workshop “Systems and technologies to support institutions in occurrence management and territorial planning” in Coimbra. The aim of the event was to present projects under development and under preparation related to the theme. Presentations were made by members of INESC TEC, INESC ID, INESC Coimbra, INESC MN and INESC INOV, followed by a wide discussion on possible opportunities, paths to follow and collaboration between the various units, in order to develop systems and methodologies that can meet the needs of Portuguese institutions and companies.
On the International Women’s Day, Isabel Trancoso, researcher at INESC-ID, talked to students from Pedro Nunes and Passos Manuel High Schools at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.
Among five others prestigious scientists (Cláudia Cavadas, Maria Salomé Pais, Maria João Bebianno, Zita Martins and Amarilis de Varennes) Isabel Trancoso, through an informal dialogue, inspired the young audience, talking about her research area and sharing a story related to a very special object.
https://www.facebook.com/pavilhaodoconhecimento/videos/10156299791831738/?v=wall&viewas=0
Fernando P. Santos and Francisco C. Santos from INESC-D/GAIPS, together with Jorge Pacheco from the University of Minho, developed a new computational model that shows how simple moral principles need to be to maximize cooperation, even in complex environments. The results of this study were published in Nature on March 8, 2018.
The model developed constitutes a new computational framework (based on Boolean algebra and game theory) to investigate the complexity of moral judgements, and the results extend the existent knowledge about the evolution of cooperation in human societies: surprisingly, the authors find that, out of the 65536 norms analyzed, and among the few cooperative norms that promote cooperation, some translate into extremely simple moral judgements, that even overlook the past reputations of individuals.
The work may provide important clues on policy-making and the design of reputation systems – pervasive in nowadays web platforms and systems supporting sharing economies – in which is fundamental to understand the norms that are able to provide maximal levels of cooperation, while maintaining simplicity for the sake of enunciation, understanding, communication, internalization and effective implementation.
Reference: Fernando P. Santos, Francisco C. Santos & Jorge M. Pacheco, Social norm complexity and past reputations in the evolution of cooperation, Nature 555, 242–245 (08 March 2018)
More info here: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25763
and here: http://gaips.inesc-id.pt/
The ceremony for the prestigious Prize “Prémio Prof. Luís Vidigal” and diploma was held within the 18th Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference on March 5, 2018, Monday, at 14:00, at the IST Congress Center.
The ceremony was attended by Prof. Luís Miguel Silveira, researcher at INESC-ID, Vice-President of IST and Member of the Management Committee for the “Prémio Prof. Luís Vidigal” award, Prof. Leonel Sousa, INESC-ID Director and President of IST DEEC Department, and Prof. Carlos Salema, President of the Telecommunications Institute and several other members of the IST community.
The prize “Prémio Prof. Luís Vidigal ” annually distinguishes “the master thesis that gather the best scientific, innovation and quality features”, as pointed by Luis Miguel Silveira.
Among the twenty four thesis submissions, the jury decided to award, ex-aequo, the thesis “Generalized Paxos made Byzantine, Visigoth and Less Complex” ” presented by Miguel Pires, Aero-space Engineering MSc, advised by Rodrigo Rodrigues, INESC-ID researcher, appointed as “the best of all master thesis”. Also awarded, the thesis “Design and Implementation of a 20 kW, 12000 RPM Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) for the IST Formula Student Powertrain” by João Sarrico, Physics Engineering MSc, advised by Profs. Paulo José da Costa Branco and João Filipe Pereira Fernandes, IST DEEC Department.
Warmest Congratulations to the award-winning candidates, as well as their scientific advisors.
The team of the project IT MEDEX attended the Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference (JEEC).
The IT-MEDEX project conducts front-line research within collaborative healthcare scenarios where 3D medical images play an important role. This project is devoted to the study and advancement of uses of technologies such as interactive surfaces (tablets, tabletops, vertical displays), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) applied to clinical and surgical scenarios.
Rui Prada, researcher at INESC-ID, spoke on TSF about the toys of the future.
The European EIT Health program selected HeartGenetics as one of its most successful startups.
This Success Story has now been published on the EIT Health webpage https://www.eithealth.eu/-/heartgenetics.
Ana Teresa Freitas, Researcher at INESC-ID and CEO of Heartgenetics, explains why this merit award is so important for the startup:
“For Heartgenetics, being selected to participate in EIT Health GoEurope 2016, meant that we were awarded with a €50k grant that allowed us to fund a market study for evaluating the cardiovascular genetics market in Europe, which in turn enabled us to realign our strategy for European markets. The programme also gave us access to a greater network of Portuguese start-ups and entrepreneurs and access to EIT Health partners across Europe”.
EIT Health promotes healthy living, active ageing and improvements in healthcare by leveraging big data and new technologies, identifying and removing barriers to innovation, and building on education and talent creation.