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22 July 2026

Ar Event: What storytelling tells us about the human mind

 

It began with a story. 

The auditorium was dark, except for a spot of light illuminating a corner of the stage where we could see a young woman in a red dress with a book in her hands, sitting in a red armchair beside a little table holding a mug and some books, a reading-lamp, and a stack of books lying on an orange carpet.

The storyteller was Saheli Roy, a PhD student in Neuroscience at the Champalimaud Foundation and one of the co-hosts for the evening. She read the beginning of an Indian story about kingdoms and pretenders to the throne. 

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16 July 2026

Honouring the Legacy of Susumu Tonegawa

To us, Tonegawa was not only a giant of world science, he was also a cherished friend of the Champalimaud  Foundation.

Present from the Champalimaud Foundation's earliest and most formative years, he helped shape its scientific DNA, contributing to the model that continues to guide us today: science that is ambitious, rigorous and committed to making a real difference to people's lives. 

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Keeping the psychedelic promise: From bench to bedside

Date and Time

8 September 2026, 14:00 – 18:15

Location

Seminar Room, Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon

About

Over the past two decades, psychedelic research has generated evidence of the therapeutic potential across a range of psychiatric and neurological conditions, bringing new possibilities for treatment and care. As the field continues to advance rapidly, clinical research still needs to overcome current challenges in real-world implementation of psychedelic therapy. 

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06 July 2026

Identifying brain circuits causally related to OCD

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be an extremely incapacitating neuropsychiatric condition. The symptoms of people who suffer from OCD can entail washing their hands or showering over and over again, repeatedly checking whether they switched off the gas in the kitchen or locked their street door. In the most extreme cases, this takes up so much of their time and energy that they become unable to leave their house, to work, to develop meaningful relationships and to interact with other people.

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Lymphatic regulation of germinal center dynamics

Host

Carlos Minutti, PhD, Immunoregulation Lab


Venue

Seminar Room

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Closed-loop control of neural dynamics

Behaviour ultimately arises from the collective dynamics of neural populations across the brain. As part of a large collaboration with academic and industrial partners in the UK, we are developing computational approaches to control the components of these dynamics that underpin specific behavioural variables using electrical stimulation. Ultimately, we are interested in bringing this translational research in primates as treatments for patients with neurological conditions such as epilepsy or paralysis.

Neurotechnologies for movement restoration

Neurotechnologies offer an exciting new approach to target the nervous system at a systems level, complementing more traditional bottom-up treatments such as medications. We are interested in applying our basic neuroscientific findings to the development of brain-computer interfaces that either give people control of external devices or modulate their “brain states” using neuromodulation.

Neural explanations of behaviour

Science is always theory laden: The experiments that one performs and their interpretations are both influenced by the philosophical framework adopted —explicitly or implicitly— by the scientist. We are interested in whether there can be neural explanations of behaviour, meaning whether looking at neural activity can add any explanatory power to studying the behaviour itself. Among the potential neural explanations of behaviour, we focus in those based on neural manifolds, mathematical objects that capture the collective activity of neural populations and their constraints.

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