From Life Molecules to Global Health (eBook)

Health care demands more and more cooperation and the convergence of all health related sciences, from Life Molecules to Global Health, as was most recently shown by the challenge of the COVID pandemic. This book brings together science contributions from NOVA’s researchers on biology and health, in the format of a broad life construct book. NOVA University has a strong commitment to the Health Sciences, its contributions ranging from the basis of life to mechanisms of disease, public and global health and health related topics, such as economics, health management, ethics, research, communication, education, law and health leadership. The book, “From Life Molecules to Global Health”, is promoted and supported by Fundação Amélia de Mello as part of the commemorations of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Alfredo da Silva, founder of the CUF industrial group and a great promoter of best Corporate Social Responsibility practice in Portugal. It brings together NOVA’s important contributions to the Health Sciences, and is truly a road map of NOVA’s best research, where the reader – the general reader and the learned scientist – will find basic, up-to-date, cutting-edge and innovative information on the full spectrum of biology, human diseases and global health.