Research Lines • 
Health and Biomedical Informatics
Leader:
Cátia PesquitaONGOING
| Acronym | Title | Funding Entity | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CancerScan | CancerScan: Smart pathology slide scanner for diagnosis and patient-specific treatment recommendation in oncology | HORIZON Europe | 01/08/2025 | 31/07/2028 |
| DETECT2AD | Two Alzheimer’s - Diagnosing distinct types of Alzheimer’s disease in CSF and plasma | COMPETE20230EUFCTP2030 | 15/07/2025 | 13/07/2028 |
| TRACKD | learning Temporal pRogression pAtterns for Chronic Kidney Disease prognosis | FCT | LASIGE | 01/10/2026 | 31/12/2027 |
| AmbiAccess | Accessible Health Tracking with Ambient Feedback for Visually Impaired People | FCT | 02/02/2026 | 01/08/2027 |
| PlantPathoRec | Recommender system for biological control agents against plant pathogens | FCT | 01/02/2025 | 31/01/2027 |
| RobotsVote | Do robots influence your vote? | FCT | LASIGE | 01/10/2025 | 01/01/2027 |
| QUICK-DNA | QUantum Innovation for Computational Knowledge in DNA | FCT | LASIGE | 17/03/2026 | 31/12/2026 |
| ParkProfile | Temporal Multimodal PD Patients Profiling | FCT | LASIGE | 01/12/2025 | 30/09/2026 |
PAST
| Acronym | Title | Funding Entity | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HfPT | Health from Portugal | IAPMEI / PRR- Portuguese Resilience and Recovery Plan | 01/02/2023 | 30/06/2026 |
| MicroGenAI | Generative Language Models for Unearthing Resilient Microbes in Regenerative Agriculture | FCT | LASIGE | 01/12/2025 | 31/05/2026 |
| IBD | Inclusive by Design: Rethinking Digital Tools for Symptom Tracking and Disease Management | FCT | LASIGE | 14/11/2025 | 14/05/2026 |
| BRAINTEASER | BRinging Artificial INTelligencE home for a better cAre of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and multiple SclERosis | EU H2020 | 01/01/2021 | 30/06/2025 |
| KATY | Knowledge At the Tip of Your fingers: Clinical Knowledge for Humanity | EU H2020 | 01/01/2021 | 30/06/2025 |
| AIpALS | Advanced LearnIng Models using Patient Profiles and Disease Progression Patterns for Prognostic Prediction in ALS | FCT | 01/03/2021 | 28/02/2025 |
| CIRCLES | Controlling mIcRobiomes CircuLations for bEtter food Systems | EU H2020 | 01/11/2018 | 31/10/2024 |
| DKG | Distributed Knowledge Graphs | COST ACTION | 23/09/2020 | 22/09/2024 |
| THOR | Computer Assisted Thoracic Assessment using POCUS | FCT | 01/03/2021 | 29/02/2024 |
| DL-CADET | Deep multimodal Learning for breast CAncer DETection | FCT | 01/01/2022 | 30/12/2023 |
| AWESOME | Awareness While Experiencing and Surfing On Movies through Emotions | FCT | 01/10/2018 | 30/09/2022 |
| BINDER | Improving Bio-Inspired Deep Learning for Radiomics | FCT | 01/10/2018 | 30/07/2022 |
| iCare4U | Decision support system for personalized medicine in ICUs | FCT | 01/06/2018 | 31/05/2022 |
| PREDICT | Personalized therapy for RhEumatic DIseases via machine learning | FCT | 01/01/2019 | 31/12/2021 |
| SMiLax | Semantic Mining with Linked Data | FCT | 01/07/2016 | 31/12/2020 |
| NEUROCLINOMICS2 | Unravelling Prognostic Markers in NEUROdegenerative diseases through CLINical and OMICS data integration | FCT | 01/07/2016 | 31/03/2020 |
| PERSEIDS | PERSEIDS – PERSONALIZING CANCER THERAPY THROUGH INTEGRATED MODELING | FCT | 17/06/2016 | 16/12/2019 |
| MIMED | Mining the Molecular Metric Space for Drug Design | FCT | 01/06/2016 | 30/11/2019 |
| RESISTIR | Sistema de Informação para controlo de infecção inteligente e antibioterapia personalizada | P2020 | 01/04/2016 | 01/04/2019 |
| Acronym | Short Description |
|---|---|
| VETA | Tool that analyses the performance of several variant prediction methods at different levels. |
| KGsim-benchmark | A collection of 21 benchmark data sets for large biomedical knowledge graphs similarity evaluation |
| PPRSSM | A entity linking software based on Personalized PageRank using Semantic Similarity Measures |
| DiShIn | A software package provides the basic functions to start using semantic similarity measures directly from a rdf or owl file |
| MER | A Named-Entity Recognition tool which given any lexicon and any input text returns the list of terms recognized in the text, including their exact location |
| Genodedup | GenoDedup is an algorithm that integrates efficient similarity-based deduplication and specialized delta-encoding for genome sequencing data |
| ChemRecSys | ChemRecSys (Chemical Compounds Recommender System) |
| BiOnt | BiOnt is a system to perform relation extraction using a deep learning system |
| Epidemiology Ontology | Aims at increasing the amount of epidemiological data available, improving disease surveillance systems, and promoting the collaboration among epidemiological researchers |
| AgreementMakerLight | An automated and efficient ontology matching system |
| NAMS | A free Webtool to calculate similarity between molecules based on the structural/topological relationships of each atom towards all the others within a molecule |
| B3PP | A web application that interfaces a machine learning model designed to predict the Blood-Brain Barrier penetration properties |
| DNA Privacy Detector | A method that systematically detects privacy-sensitive DNA segments coming directly from an input stream |
| JDNA | A referential compressor for aligned DNA files |
| Rankores | Allows users to vote on news thus helping with their validation and taking advantage of social networks by sharing news we validate |
| Onde e quem vai ver | An app that allow the user to browse, create and share the best events |
| O Mundo em Pessoa | A collaboration project with Sapo Labs for the celebration of the 125th year of birth of Fernando Pessoa |
| Lusica | A project of automatic collection of music quotes of Lusophone artists from the social networks |
| GIN 2.0 | Devised to design primers within microbial species or genus as broad as possible, for PCR gene-screening projects |
| Missinks | A web application that given a search query identifies the links in the first two pages of a given Google country search engine |
| CMPSim | A web tool that implements a novel approach to measure the similarity between chemical compounds and metabolic pathays using semantic similarity |
| GRYFUN | Allows the visualization, filtering and subsequent analysis of Gene Ontology (GO) annotation profiles |
| CESSM | An online tool for the automated evaluation of GO-based semantic similarity measures |
| Therminfo | A cheminformatics system designed and built with two main objectives in mind: collecting and retrieving critically evaluated thermochemical values, and estimating new data |
| ProteInOn | A web tool focused on calculating GO-based protein semantic similarity |
| CIDS | A user-friendly web tool that calculates different citation statistics |