Nuno Manuel Moreira Dias Rato completed his BSc Degree in Sport Sciences on the 15th June 2018, by the University of Porto - Faculty of Sports and MSc Degree in Clinical Exercise Physiology on the 25th October 2019, by the University of Bedfordshire. Nuno is a contracted researcher in Instituto Universitário da Maia and works as a fellow researcher in a project that is currently funded by the FCT - The Holdage Trial. He has published one article in a peer-reviewed international journal and is co-author of several abstracts that have been accepted for presentation in international congresses. His research focuses on the area of Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Health Sciences. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Hypertension; Cancer; Cardiovascular Physiology; Exercise; Physical Function; Isometric Handrip Training; Athlete's Heart; Left Ventricular Mass; Cardiac Remodelling. Additionally, Nuno has been involved in numerous research projects with cancer patients and has recently been awarded a PhD funding by the Portuguese national funding agency for science, research, and technology for a project entitled 'The impact of physical exercise on the efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer patients–a randomized controlled trial’.