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. 

She is the only awardee based in Portugal and one of a small number of researchers selected outside the United States.

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

Host

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

Venue

Seminar Room