• Safety Assessment of Chemicals
• Antimicrobial Resistance
• Microbe-Host interactions in human diseases

Aligned with the National Investment Programe for Disease Prevention, one of the key pillars for the development of the Portuguese Economic and Social Recovery Plan, which focuses on the prevention of highly prevalent diseases through changes in nutritional and lifestyle-related behaviors. Safety assessment, both from human and environmental health perspectives, is a challenge for Academia, Industry, Regulatory entities and Consumers/patients, with high social-economic impact.