Flávio Costa, MSc in Biochemistry, is currently a Research Technician at Center for Innovative Care and Health Technology (ciTechCare), Polytechnic of Leiria. He has a BSc (2016) and MSc graduation (2019) in Biochemistry, from Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto and Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute, Portugal. In his MSc thesis, entitled "On the role of adenosine-sensitive P1 receptors in human chondrogenesis" he 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 designing and writing a winning project under the RESEARCH4COVID-19 funding call by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) with a project entitled “Purinome-rejuvenated autologous STEM cells against COVID-19. Who´s gonna win the ageing battle?”. Results were presented at the European Alliance for Global Health Transformation 2022 Annual Summit, through the joint Research and Innovation Action (EUGLHORIA) Seeding Conference, hosted by Lund University-Sweden. He joined ciTechCare in 2021 as a Research Fellow to work in ForPharmacy project, funded by FCT and Compete2020, a co-promotion project led by the pharmacy-dedicated international IT company Glintt. His work was focused on herb-medicine interactions and antimicrobial resistance survey and prevention as an integrated service in the Portuguese pharmacies. During this period, he won an international mobility exchange grant to do a brief laboratory internship at the 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 to write an opinion article for a local newspaper, Diário de Leiria, on the subject of antimicrobial stewardship. In October 2023 he was hired as Research Technician in ciTechCare based CeliAct(TIV) project: “Translocation, Inflammation and Virulence: dissecting mechanisms of gluten-microbiota interactions in Celiac Disease”, funded by Beyond Celiac Foundation. Under CeliAct(TIV) project scope, he is currently doing another international internship, at the Celiac Disease Research Center, University of Tampere, Finland. His research interests are antimicrobial stewardship, herb-drug interactions and Celiac Disease.