Teresa Martins

Leader

Inspired by UV protective compounds from microbial sources, we propose to develop new active ingredients with enhanced UV-A protection that can be used in the formulation of sunscreens and/or be embedded in the lenses of sunglasses and other surfaces.

Team		Business Element
Mariana Reis	Pedro Leão	Szabolcs Jakab

Vitor Minhoto

Leader

One of the greatest problems in the flight industry is the need of proceeding with an emergency landing when a passenger claims to not feeling good or when specific signs of illness are shown. This involves a great amount of money and time consuming procedures to the flight companies. In order to overcome these problems and to do more accurate diagnostics and better decisions we need a tool that reads the vital signs of the subject and where we can describe basic symptoms, then sends it to a Hospital where a doctor will analyse the data and send his official opinion about what is really happening.
Our main objective with this project is to design a model that takes into account the vital signs that we need to record, the technology needed to send data, what will be the destination of that data, who will evaluate it, and how will the decision be made.

Team		Business Element
Tiago Gonçalves		Abhishek Chatterjee

Teresa Cunha Ferreira

Leader

Computorised Software and Web App for computer, tablets and smart phones based on relational database. MPLAN replaces an absence in the market, and is a user friendly and flexible tool for the management and maintenance of buildings.

MPLAN has different functionalities such as: database management, building inspection and diagnosis, maintenance plans (chronogram of interventions, budget estimation, etc), users manuals (for managers and users).

Team		Business Element
Marta Ferreira		Luís Pedro Ferreira

Sara Freitas

Leader

Small molecules of natural origin represent an invaluable source of chemical diversity and unique novel structures that could be the solution for multi-drug resistance problems as well as their acquisition through a renewable source or alternatively by chemical synthesis. For that reason, exploring new natural metabolites is essential for the development of new anti-parasitic strategies.
The solution herein presented is a new anti-parasitic natural compound, hierridin C, with proved antiplasmodial activity and with potential to be used against other parasitic targets. Hierridin B, a natural alkyl-aromatic metabolite isolated from a marine cyanobacterial strain, had previously been reported as a potent antimalarial agent as well.

Team		Business Element
Adriana Rego	Raquel Castelo Branco	Mariana Franco

Maria Antónia Nunes

Leader

Project SOILIFE presents an eco-friendly procedure that converts olive pomace into a solid substrate. At the end of the process, a non-phytotoxic product is obtained, suitable to be used in agriculture as soil, agricultural additive or agricultural substrate, in particular as soil fertilizer for plant cultivation, soil substrates, or soilless culture additives. This process implies minimal energy cost (using low temperature) and water as solvent in extraction cycles. Besides eliminating olive pomace phytotoxicity, this procedure allows the simultaneous recovery of bioactive compounds with added-value for other industries as food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic.

Team		Business Element
Filipa Pimentel	Anabela Costa	João Ferreira
Beatriz Oliveira

Franciso Aguiar

Leader

O nosso projecto pretende combater a alimentação pouco saudável,promovendo hábitos alimentares melhorados e a confecção de refeições mais saborosas, nos estudantes universitários portugueses deslocados. Tem igualmente como intenção reduzir o tempo destes nas superfícies comerciais, bem como melhorar a sua gestão financeira. Através de uma gestão optimizada das suas refeições, os estudantes estarão também a lutar contra o desperdício alimentar.

Entendemos ser necessária a criação e desenvolvimento de uma plataforma online intuitiva onde o utilizador possa, através de uma assinatura mensal, aceder a um acervo de receitas nutricionalmente equilibradas e atualizadas regularmente. Após a escolha das receitas que mais lhe agrade, o utilizador poderá solicitar a entrega ou o levantamento através de um parceiro do sector retalhista e obter os ingredientes na quantidade exacta para a elaboração das receitas.

Team		Business Element
Bárbara Loureiro FLUP		Nuno Guimarães

Cristina Barbosa

Leader

In one way, we developed and adapted a set of innovation methodological tools that aim to discover, promote and improve skills and competences, in order to identify new insights and translate them into commercially successful products and services. This way, our customized approach brings a multidisciplinary approach (arts, technology, craftwork, etc) together with user-centered design and co-creation.

A digital marketplace to connect the new creations with a large audience is the window to turn all invisible talent into a visible one and promote their own income from the sales of original work.

Team		Business Element
Andreia Passos	José Pedro Rodrigues	Jamil Farkatt

Filipe Pereira

Leader

Our kits use conventional molecular biology reagents to identify the organisms that provided biological material to a complex sample, where no morphological feature can be used. They are particularly useful for analysis of suboptimal DNA samples by targeting high copy number, conserved and short DNA regions. They also target different genomic regions simultaneously (multiplex capacity), with increases the robustness of the analysis. All analyses using our kits are done with conventional laboratory equipment. We have developed kits for identification of humans and domestic species (dogs, cats, cattle, pigs, sheep, goat, etc.), plants, genetically modified organisms (including the first transgenic animal approved for human consumption – the AquAdvantage salmon), etc.

Business Element
José Bonifácio Neto

Ronaldo Martins

Leader

High density scenarios, such as concerts and sports events, represent a challenge to the deployment of mobile solutions. In particular, streaming video and other latency sensitive applications cannot be properly handled by current approaches, without a substantial investment on infrastructure.

Business Element
Gustavo Ferreira

Sara Gomes

Leader

The potent in vivo antitumor activity of our compounds as well as their high selectivity towards the p53-pathway, with no apparent secondary toxicity, make them privileged anticancer drug candidates compared to those currently available.

Team	Business Element
Helena Ramos	Diego Orozco

Rafaela Santos

Leader

One of the most promising alternatives to antibiotics as health-promoting strategies is the use of probiotics as feed additives. Probiotics are “live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amounts confer a health benefit on the host”. They are believed contribute for gut microbiota balance, improve host growth and immune system, compete with pathogens for adhesion sites/nutrients, and produce natural antimicrobial compounds (NAC). These NAC can be metabolites, peptides or proteins and might interfere with bacterial growth and communication.

Probiotic bacteria have been implicated in bioremediation and water quality improvement, and by decreasing the incidence of diseases, probiotics reduce the antibiotic residues in the environment, contributing to the sustainability of aquaculture.

Team		Business Element
Ana Sofia Lavrador	Fábio Rangel	Caio Souza
Paula Enes	Cláudia Serra

Tiago Guedes

Leader

The purpose of this project is to create a tool that is highly adaptable and is able to support the same work of an image specialist of any area. Initially our work will be focused in providing support for different areas:

– Automatic highlighting, tag and classification of regions that are present in images obtained by autonomous underwater vehicle (images from the sea floor).

– Automatic highlighting, tag and classification of regions of interest in mammograms and detection of malignancy in each of them.

– Automatic detection of common objects in images, for example differentiating photos of groups of persons from a single person or objects like cars.

This solution allows the reduction, or even elimination, of time spent by specialists selecting and describing images.

Team		Business Element
Rui Pedro Silva	André Diegues	Catarina Ferreira