Catarina Raposo and João Santos, students and researchers from the University of Algarve, and João Batina, a student at the University of Lisbon, were the big winners of the regional round of the Famelab Portugal 2018 competition, which took place on 1 March, at the University of Algarve .
Those selected will participate in the national semifinal, which will take place on March 18, at the Pavilhão do Conhecimento, in Lisbon.
Researchers from the Center for Research in Biomedicine (CBMR) at UAlg, Catarina Raposo and João Santos, focused their presentations on cancer and heart problems, respectively.
Catarina Raposo, Master's student in Oncobiology, spoke about “The superpowers of cancer”, being the most voted on by the public, seeking to understand and show which mechanisms are responsible for the resistance of tumor cells to chemotherapeutic drugs.
João Santos, doctoral candidate in Mechanisms of Disease and Regenerative Medicine, presented the paper “Heart, the engine of the human body”, establishing a comparison between the functioning of the human cardiac system and the functioning of a car engine.
João Batina, on the other hand, attending the 3rd year of the Anthropology course at the Superior Institute of Social and Political Sciences, focused on the theme “A bear for a far far away galaxy”, using as an example, a minimal but “indestructible” living being ”, who has even traveled to space.
The winner of the FameLab Portugal 2018 national final will participate in the Cheltenham Science Festival, UK, in June 2018, where he will compete in the FameLab international finals together with the other international winners.
In Portugal, this initiative is promoted by the British Council and the Ciência Viva – National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture. In the Algarve, it is a partnership that included the participation of the Live Science Centers of Lagos, Algarve and Tavira and the University of Algarve.
FameLab is the world's leading international science communication competition, in which each competitor has three minutes to demonstrate their ability to communicate the most diverse scientific topics, using mainly words and gestures, without the help of multimedia support. Competitors are judged on the content, clarity and charisma of their presentations.
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