25 June 2025
Episode 5 - The Brain Below: Mating Marathons & the “Love Hormone” (Part 1)
From the “love hormone” and maternal bonding, to why your brain is more like a quantum computer, discover the brain’s secret hormonal languages that drive your behaviour and keep you alive in Episode 5 (Part 1).
Conference on Gynaecological and Urological Cancers
Date and Time
22 September 2025, 2pm - 7:45pm
Location
Auditorium, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon
Topic
This conference will discuss the prevention, treatment and challenges of gynaecological, testicular and prostate cancers with leading experts in the field.
Programme
Presented by Fernanda Freitas
2:00pm – 2:10pm – Opening Session and Tribute to Dr. Henrique Nabais
17 June 2025
The European Research Council (ERC) awards two ERC Advanced Grants to Life Sciences in Portugal
The results of the most recent European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants have been announced today (June 17th). In Portugal, the ERC selected two new projects in the area of life sciences, which in total will receive 5M€.
The ERC funding, worth in total €721M, will go to 281 leading researchers across Europe. In the case of life sciences, 732 proposals were submitted and 83 were selected for funding, which represents a success rate of approximately 11%.
11 June 2025
Episode 4 - Consciousness: From Zombies to Beast Machines
From philosophical zombies and the purpose of dreaming, to measuring consciousness like temperature and why brains aren’t computers, in Episode 4 Seth unpacks the idea that our experience of reality – and of ourselves – is a kind of waking dream, a “controlled hallucination”, shaped by prediction, perception, and the body’s primal drive to stay alive.
His theory of what it means to ‘be you’ challenges how we understand perception – and turns what you thought you knew about yourself on its head.
05 June 2025
Wrapping up the 4th Edition of the Mentoring Programme Ciência di Noz Manera
Following intro sessions that happened at schools back in February, nearly 200 8th-grade students from Escola do Alto do Lumiar (Lisboa) and Escola Dr. Azevedo Neves (Amadora) took part in a series of hands-on/minds-on experiments at both the GIMM Foundation and Champalimaud Foundation (CF) in March.
04 June 2025
Many Possible Futures: How Dopamine in the Brain Might Inform AI That Adapts Quickly to Change
The problem with averages
Imagine you’re deciding whether to wait in line for your favourite meal at a busy restaurant or grab a quick snack at the nearest café. Your brain weighs not just how good the meal might be, but also how long it will take to get it.
Champalimaud Open Seminar (COpS)
"AI/Radiomics 2.0: How to Safely Translate Research Results to the Clinics"
Nickolas Papanikolaou, Computational Clinical Imaging Group
"A New Society of Mind"
Joe Paton, Learning Lab
Moderation
Carlos Minutti, Immunoregulation Lab
Venue
Champalimaud Foundation Auditorium
