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Contact: Pereira-da-Silva Luís
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Description:

The Research Centre

The Centre for Research on CHLC, EPE was created in October 2009. It has as its main mission is to promote quality research, sustained and organized way, the four hospital centers within it.

Supports all professionals CHLC, EPE involved in health research, including doctors, nurses, psychologists, pharmacists and technicians diagnosis and therapy.

The headquarters of the Research Centre is situated in the hub of Hospital Dona Estefania, there is another pole of the nucleus in the Hospital de Santa Marta.

1. Activity

The Research Centre provides support to projects developed within the clinic and linked to academic post-graduate professionals CHLC, EPE, in the following activity areas:

Study design, data management, statistical and epidemiological analysis and support in publishing results
Search support and formalization of funding applications

The Centre for Research on CHLC, EPE also has as its mission:

Provide advice to the Board of Directors of CHLC, EPE on scientific-technical adequacy of the studies
Register to research carried out CHLC, EPE, allowing their (internal and external) periodic assessment, participating in national and European records of scientific and technological potential, especially IPCTN.

2. Structure

Coordination: Luís Pereira da Silva
Support Office for Projects and Research: Salomé de Almeida
Office of Epidemiology and Statistical Analysis: Ana Luisa Poppy, Daniel Virella, Marta Alves, Pedro and António Martins Nabais
Office of Intra- and Inter-Institutional Coordination: Luís Pereira da Silva
Secretariat: Bruno Soares

Cognitive function
YES
Exercise capacity
NO
Metabolic and ventilator response to exercise
NO
Physical activity monitoring
NO
Cardiovascular exploration
NO
Muscle function
NO
Liver
NO
Muscle
NO
Adipose
NO
Gut
NO
Lung
NO
DEXA
NO
Bod Pod
YES
Fibroscan liver investigation
NO
Pea Pod
YES
Impedancemetry
YES
CT
NO
Ultrasound
NO
MRI
NO
Stable isotope tracers
NO
Skinfolds
YES
Test meal
NO
Dedicated kitchen
NO
Indirect calorimetry
YES
Double labelled water
NO
Calorimetric chambers
NO
Faecal analysis
YES
Clamp studies
NO
Immunology
NO
Genetics
NO
Genomics
NO
Metagenomics
NO
Biochemistry
YES
Histology
NO
Mass spectrometry
NO
Cell culture
NO
Animal models
NO
Proteomics
NO
Metabolomics
NO
Substrate turnover
NO
Nutrient biodisponiblity
NO
Obese
YES
Cardiovascular
NO
Chronic respiratory disease
YES
Malnutrition
YES
Mental disease
NO
Metabolic syndrome
NO
Gastrointestinal disease
YES
Other disease
NO
Ageing
NO
Orthopaedic
NO
Cancer
NO
Healthy
YES
neonates
Paediatric
YES
Diabetic
NO
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