PTDC/CCI-COM/30952/2017 - LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-030952 - COMPETITION FOR GRANTING 1 Research...

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Deadline: 06 Dec 2021

A tender is open for the attribution of one Research Scholarship within the scope of the R&D project PTDC/CCI-COM/30952/2017, funded Programa Operacional Regional de Lisboa, under component FEDER (LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-030952), and by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P., through national funds (PIDDAC), under the following conditions:

1. Work Plan:

Finding appropriate candidates for clinical trials based on patient records is a labor-intensive and error-prone process that requires taking into consideration data on the medical history of patients, their treatments, medications, and results from medical tests. Treating such different kinds of data adequately requires the integration of knowledge expressed in different formats, making use of knowledge bases, such as Snomed CT for describing relevant medical information, expressed in well-established language standards developed within the Semantic Web initiative, as well as data streams. NoHR is a tool that allows its users to integrate and efficiently reason over OWL ontologies and non-monotonic rules, two such standard languages for the Semantic Web. The goal is to explore the capabilities of NoHR to develop an application that helps match patients to clinical trial criteria, including support for explanations for why certain patients have been chosen, which is important to verify whether the right patients have been chosen and to raise acceptance of such automated methods.

2. Workplace:

The work will be developed at the installations of the Department of Computer Science, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, under scientific supervision of Prof. Doutor João Alexandre Carvalho Pinheiro Leite, the contracting entity being NOVA.id.FCT – Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT.

3. Fellowship duration:

The grant has a duration of 4 months, starting in principle in December 2021. The contract may be renewed within the duration of the project.

4. Application deadline and form of application submission:

Application is open between November 22 and December 6, 2021.

Candidates should apply by sending cv, a letter of motivation and declaration on honor that he or she meets the requirements to enroll in a master's, integrated master's, doctoral or non-academic course, via e-mail to Matthias Knorr ([email protected] ) indicating the reference PTDC/CCI-COM/30952/2017/BI/3.

Documents that are of mandatory submission, for purposes of the studentship contracting: bachelor’s certificate in Computer Science (or a corresponding course)* and proof of enrolment in in a master's, integrated master's, doctoral or non-academic course.

* In case of foreign academic degrees, and to guarantee the application of the principle of equal treatment to applicants with national and foreign academic degrees, it is mandatory to submit the recognition of such degrees and the conversion of the respective final grade to the Portuguese grading scale.

5. Applicable legislation and regulations::

Law No. 40/2004, of August 18, amended and republished by Decree-Law No. 202/2012 of August 27 (Statute of the Scientific Research Fellow) and amended by Decree-Law No. 233/2012 of October 29, by Law No. 12 /2013 of 29 January, by Decree-Law No. 89/2013, of 9 July and Decree-Law No. 123/2019, of 28 August; Regulation of Research Grants of NOVA.id.FCT – Association for Innovation and Development of FCT; Regulation of Research Grants of the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. in force (https://www.fct.pt/apoios/bolsas/regulamento.phtml.pt );



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