The RISE-Health Doctoral Student Committee (CED RISE-Health) will be launched on 27 March at 14:00. The initiative, developed by doctoral students from the country’s largest research unit, will take place in a hybrid format, in room 4 of the FMUP Medical Research Centre and online.

‘The creation of the RISE Health CED aims to unite doctoral students through useful and innovative initiatives, in order to strengthen the links between the centres through the younger members,’ says Lara Fonseca, current president of the RISE-Health CED.

In addition, with a focus on bringing doctoral students closer to RISE-Health, the initiative should include the participation of Fernando Schmitt, coordinator of the RISE Research Unit and Associated Laboratory, and other renowned RISE-Health researchers.

Note that RISE-Health has strong links with higher education, supporting various training programmes in different study cycles.

Admission is free upon previous registration.

About RISE-Health

The unit RISE-Health is the result of the merger of the Centre for Health Technology and Services Research (CINTESIS), the Cardiovascular Research and Development Unit (UnIC), the Centre for Drug Discovery and Innovative Medicines (MedInUP) and the Centre for Research in Health Sciences (CICS-UBI).

Headquartered at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP), this new research unit has management centres in five other organic units of the U.Porto (Institute of Biomedical Sciences of Abel Salazar, Faculty of Pharmacy, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Faculty of Sciences and Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences); as well as 8 in other public universities and schools (University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, University of Algarve, University of Aveiro, University of Beira Interior, University of Madeira, Nursing School of Porto, Health Sciences School of the Polytechnic of Porto and Nursing School of the Polytechnic of Santarém); and 3 in private universities and schools (Fernando Pessoa University, Portucalense University and Santa Maria Health School).