The Accelerator Program marries theory and practice in order to potentiate innovation to help participants accomplish the following goals:

 

* Understand the fundamental molecular basis of health and disease and recognize the growing influence of OMICS and wearable health technologies on healthcare by analyzing state-of-the-art trends and initiatives;

 

* Recognize the main issues that lie at the interface of science, technology, law and ethics in the context of digital health and precision medicine with a specific focus on current regulatory frameworks in Portugal, the European Union and the USA;

 

* Build and develop an entrepreneur toolkit for starting a business in the areas of digital health and precision medicine;

 

* Complete the ideation, prototyping and testing of new business ideas to be presented during the Course;

 

* Be ready to navigate the subsequent development stages of their business ideas toward future launch of their products in the marketplace.