On February 11, GIMM Oeiras hosts the next edition of Out of Our Box seminar, featuring João Garcia da Fonseca, Chief Technology Officer at Inflammatix and founder of biosurfit.

Trained as a physicist, João has spent over 20 years transforming applied physics into clinically deployed diagnostic systems. His work integrates microfluidics, optics, automated sample preparation, molecular amplification, and machine-learning–based interpretation. In this talk, João will share his journey from traditional immunoassays and hematology to advanced Host Response diagnostics based on mRNA quantification and ML models, highlighting the challenges and innovations behind end-to-end development, industrialization, and regulatory approval of multiple CE-marked and FDA-cleared IVD platforms.

The session offers a unique glimpse into how multidisciplinary teams turn scientific ideas into life-saving diagnostic tools, bridging physics, biology, and clinical application.