Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr. Carlos Montez Champalimaud (Champalimaud Foundation), a private, non-profit research institution, is opening a call for a Physiotherapist.

A legacy that changed rectal cancer

When Professor Heald first described TME, local recurrence rates after rectal cancer surgery in many centres were 20-30%, with devastating consequences for patients. By insisting on meticulous, sharp dissection in the “holy plane”, respecting embryology and removing the mesorectum as an intact package, he showed that local recurrence could be reduced to single digits, with corresponding gains in survival and function.

The Day Hospital is a place where treatment meets compassion. 

Here, patients receive systemic treatments, namely chemotherapy, in an environment designed to promote comfort, privacy and reassurance.

Individual treatment booths allow family members to be present, creating moments of support throughout the care journey.

Nurses and doctors remain close at every step, carefully monitoring treatments, responding to patients’ needs and ensuring personalised and attentive care.

As part of a Marie-Curie Doctoral Network (ELEVATE), we are offering a PhD student position. The proposed project sits at the interface of computational neuroscience and neuromorphic engineering, and is embedded within a strong network of European academic and industrial partners.

Host

Inês Ramos, PhD, Tissue Immunity Lab

Venue

Seminar Room

Host

Michael Orger, PhD, Vision to Action Lab

Venue

Seminar Room

The delegation was composed of Maria Würth, granddaughter of Prof. Reinhold Würth and Executive Vice President of the Würth Group for Arts and Culture, accompanied by her husband, who met with the Champalimaud Foundation’s leadership and the directors of the clinical and scientific teams to review progress and discuss next steps for this long‑term collaboration.

The Principal Investigator’s Office is a space where ideas are challenged, discoveries take shape and research moves forward.

Here, researchers get together to discuss projects, share findings and debate scientific publications. It is a space for mentoring, project management and learning – where emerging questions spark new possibilities.

Through dialogue, critical thinking and collaboration, individual efforts become collective progress.

Holt, who identified the Champalimaud Foundation as a supporter of research recognised by the prize, shares the $1 million award with Professor Kelsey Martin, Professor Erin Schuman and Professor Oswald Steward “for the discovery of local protein translation in neurons and establishing its importance for brain development and plasticity.” The Kavli Prize, awarded every two years, honours scientists whose discoveries have transformed our understanding of the universe, the nanoscale and the brain.