This was the starting point for RTP’s programme Hora de Agir, which dedicated one of its episodes to carbon neutrality in healthcare, highlighting the path the Champalimaud Foundation is taking to become the first healthcare institution in the world to operate on 100% clean energy. The programme featured João Silveira Botelho, Vice-President of the Champalimaud Foundation, who stressed the urgency of transforming how healthcare consumes energy and resources.

Albino J. Oliveira-Maia is the Director of the Neuropsychiatry Unit at the Champalimaud Foundation and Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at NOVA Medical School in Lisbon. He is also President-Elect of the Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health, President of the Scientific Council for the Portuguese OCD Foundation and President of the Ethics Committee at the Institute for Addictive Behaviours and Addictions.

The three-year grant, worth $1 million, is part of the largest-ever grant programme launched by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), which aims to support promising scientists at critical junctures in their careers. Correia was one of 15 researchers selected to share a total of $15 million to pursue paradigm-shifting ideas in cancer biology, with the ultimate aim of improving patient outcomes.

Could radiotherapy become the standard for lung cancer treatment? Could Artificial Intelligence (AI) help oncologists in treatment selection? Should many more resources be devoted to prevention, namely populational screening for this cancer? 

Cancer experts gathered at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), in Lisbon, for the third edition of the Lung Cancer Fight Club, to debate for a day on these and other issues.

Host

Adriana Sánchez-Danés, PhD, Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Lab

Venue

Seminar Room

"How the brain tracks the body (without satellites!)"

Eugenia Chiappe, Sensorimotor Integration Lab
 

"Cellular plasticity in the brain: mechanisms linking tissue repair and tumorigenesis"

Christa Rhiner, Stem Cells and Regeneration Lab
 

Moderation

Albino Oliveira-Maia, Neuropsychiatry

The Champalimaud Foundation (CF) was one of four institutions, together with more than 20 individuals (health and pharmaceutical specialists, clinicians, nurses, health managers, etc.) to receive this year the Ministry of Health’s Medal for Distinguished Service - Gold Class, rewarding the work they developed for the benefit of Health in Portugal. The medals were awarded on April 7th, during a ceremony marking World Health Day which took place at the Champalimaud Foundation, in Lisbon.

This procedure was done within the framework of the newly launched Programme for Minimally Invasive Robotic and Endoscopic Breast Surgery, an initiative developed by the Champalimaud Foundation as part of the surgical treatment options offered to selected breast cancer patients, representing a significant advancement in surgical innovation and patient-centred care.

Host

John Krakauer, MD, Director of the Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology

Venue

Seminar Room