Flávio Costa, MSc in Biochemistry, is currently a fulltime hired Research Technician at CeliAct(TIV) research project, “Translocation, Inflammation and Virulence: dissecting mechanisms of gluten-microbiota interactions in Celiac Disease”, funded by Beyond Celiac Foundation (United States of America), based at Center for Innovative Care and Health Technology (ciTechCare), Polytechnic of Leiria. He has a BSc and MSc graduation in Biochemistry, obtained in 2017 and 2019 at Faculty of Sciences and Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of Porto, respectively. In his MSc work he first authored a review entitled “Adenosinergic signalling in chondrogenesis and cartilage homeostasis: friend or foe?”, published at Biochemical Pharmacology journal (doi:10.1016/j.bcp.2019.113784) and presented his work at the Portuguese Society of Pharmacology (SPF) 2019 Meeting. He was also invited to lecture Pharmacology practical classes to Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and Bioengineering MSc courses. In 2020, Flávio collaborated in the design and writing of a winning research project under the RESEARCH4COVID-19 funding call by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), entitled “Purinome-rejuvenated autologous STEM cells against COVID-19. Who´s gonna win the ageing battle?”. Results were presented at European Alliance for Global Health Transformation 2022 Annual Summit, through the joint Research and Innovation Action (EUGLHORIA) Seeding Conference. He joined ciTechCare in September 2021 as a Research Fellow to work in ForPharmacy, “Future pharmacy as a plug-and-play ecosystem”, a co-promotion project funded by FCT and Compete2020, led by the pharmacy-dedicated international company Glintt. His work was focused on herb-medicine interactions (doi:10.2196/preprints.47649) and antimicrobial resistance prevention as an integrated service in Portuguese pharmacies. During this period, he won an international mobility exchange grant for a brief laboratory internship at Shannon Applied Biotechnology Centre, Technological University of Shannon, Ireland. He was also invited to lecture BSc Nutrition and Dietetics Food Toxicology classes at Polytechnic of Leiria School of Health Sciences, and wrote an opinion article for a local newspaper, Diário de Leiria, on antimicrobial stewardship (ID: 100724218). In October 2023 he was hired as a Research Technician for CeliAct(TIV) project and under that scope, completed a 9-months international internship at Celiac Disease Research Center, University of Tampere, Finland. Preliminary results were presented at 20th International Coeliac Disease Symposium, Sheffield; 10th International Human Microbiome Consortium Congress, Rome; and MET Research Day, Tampere University, Finland. During this internship, he also won a travel grant from The Finnish Coeliac Society to present his work in Sheffield. Currently he is waiting for the final decision on an article submission as first author at Food Chemistry, entitled “Influence of commensal bacteria on the digestive and immunogenic profiles of amyloid-like wheat alpha-gliadin aggregates”, and his concluding writing a second paper on the work developed at Tampere, focused on celiac patient derived bacteria and bacterially digested gliadin on intestinal enterocyte inflammation. Another publication on antimicrobial resistance gut microbiota pool of CeD patients and their first-degree relatives is also under completion. Both as first author and both including international collaborations. These ongoing publications demonstrate his scientific ability and recognition from the project leader and project partners.