Research Methods and Techniques
Code
1071000
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Henrique Manuel Paixão dos Santos Girão
Teaching language
Portuguese/English
Objectives
The overall aim of this course is to provide students with research competences and transferable skills necessary to design a scientific research project, including general laboratory techniques and methods used in biomedical research. The course includes a technically-oriented module on "Laboratory Techniques", in which experts will be presenting the most recent advances in various biomedical research techniques, particularly relevant in the context of basic, translational and clinical research. In the other two modules, the formal and scientific aspects of a grant proposal will be covered. In this context, the students in groups, integrating a multidisciplinary team of 3-4 people, will have to prepare a scientific grant proposal on a scientific field identified by the coordinators. These proposals will be further discussed and improved with the help of a panel of scientists specialists in the themes covered by the projects.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
1. How to design a novel and competitive grant proposal
2. Molecular mechanisms in metabolic disease
3. Research in neuropsychology of ageing
4. Clinic Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases
5. Animal models of ageing
6. Functional bioimaging
7. Cellular Bioimaging
8. Biostatistics
9. Foundations of genetic and chronic diseases
10. Clinical Trials and new therapeutic approaches
11. Neuropsychology evaluation and cognitive ageing.
Bibliography
n/a
Teaching method
Seminars and presentation and discussion of a scientific grant proposal.
Evaluation method
Evaluation will be based on the written proposal and its oral presentation.
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