RESEARCH PROJECTS:

2003                Research project in biomedical law at the Faculty of Law of Roger Williams University (Rhode Island, EUA), with a scholarship from Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (Luso-American Foundation for Development, FLAD)

2003                Research project in biomedical law at the Faculty of Law of American University and the Faculty of Law of George Washington University (Washington, EUA), with a scholarship from Rangel Sampaio Foundation

2006                Research project in biomedical law at the Faculty of Law of Barcelona University, Spain, with a scholarship from Rangel Sampaio Foundation

2007                Research project in biomedical law and constitutional law at the Kennedy Institute for Ethics, Georgetown, Washington D.C. (EUA) with a scholarship from Gulbenkian Foundation

2007                Research project in biomedical law at the European Institute, Florence, Italy, with a scholarship from Rangel Sampaio Foundation

2008                Participation in the Helsinki project, Valência, Spain.

2009                Continuation of the participation in the Helsinki Project, in New York, USA.”

2014-2015        Start-up research grant (SRG) from Macau University. Title: Medical Law. 

2015 - 2018      Multi Year Research Grant (MYRG) from Macau University. Title: Reproductive issues: juridical contextualization of reproductive techniques, genetics and new medical technologies. Some lessons from other legal orders

2015-2018        Multi Year Research Grant (MYRG) from Macau University. Title: Medical liability, medical acts and patient’s safety. How can the legal and judicial experiences worldwide help to provide a legal framework for Macau and China?

2017                Participation in the international project ‘Medically Assisted Reproduction’, organized by the Faculty of Law of Oporto University (FDUP) and Centre of Juridical-Economical Research (CIJE).

2018                Participation in the GESSUS PROJECT, an international project on surrogacy financed by the Spanish Government

2019                Participation in the PANELFIT project (as portuguese rapporteur), about the protection of private data on European member states (PANELFIT project has received funding under the European Union’s H2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 788039).

2020                Participation in the research project ‘Advanced Directives Across Asia’, organised by the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law of the University of Hong Kong, the Law Society of Hong Kong, the Ethox Centre (University of Oxford) and the United Kingdom Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities (University of Oxford, the United Kingdom)

2020                Participation in the research project ‘Responsibility For Public Health in the Lusophone World: Doing Justice in and Beyond The Covid Emergency’, approved by the World Health Organization, under the call ‘The Ethics of Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response’.

2021                  Participation in the research project ‘Legal regulation of certain issues related to vaccination’, organised by the International and Comparative Law Research Center (Russia), with a report on vaccines and vaccination policies in the People’s Republic of China.

2021                Participation in a research project on biosafety, funded by the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, with the project number: CP-030-2021. Project title: ‘Legal and Regulatory Issues Associated with Synthetic Biotechnology (Biosafety). Period: 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022; total: 480,000 RMB (57,779 euros).

2021                Participation in the project ‘Covid-19 Litigation Initiative’, an initiative coordinated by the University of Trento (Faculty of Law) within an International Network of judges and legal scholars (INJS). A first Study on “Covid 19 Litigation” has been commissioned by the World Health Organization (December 2020).

2021                Participation in the research project ‘Regulation of Biomedical Research Data Generated from the Shenzhen Synthetic Biology Automation Infrastructure’, resulting from the collaboration between the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.