Catarina Raposo, researcher at the Center for Research in Biomedicine (CBMR) of the University of Algarve (UAlg), is in the final of Famelab 2018, the most famous international science communication competition.
With a presentation on “The superpowers of cancer”, the student of the Master's Degree in Oncobiology at UAlg “received rave praises from the jury who highlighted her naturalness, her ability to communicate and the quality of the content presented”, says the Algarve academy.
To the stage of the Pavilion of Knowledge, the researcher took a good cell and a bad cell, who helped her explain to the public why, most of the time, chemotherapy is literally spat out of the patient's body, before it manages to have any beneficial effect on them.
The competition, organized by Ciência Viva – National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture and the British Council, takes place on 12 April at the Coliseu dos Recreios, in Lisbon. Hence the Portuguese representative in the international final in Cheltenham, UK.
In the Algarve regional qualifier, which took place on the 1st of March, at UAlg, João Batina, a student at the University of Lisbon, also passed to the final phase of Famelab 2018.
Each competitor has, in this competition, three minutes to demonstrate their ability to communicate the most diverse scientific topics, using only words and gestures and without the help of audiovisuals.
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