The Teaching Lab is much more than a classroom. It’s where students, from their first experiments to their PhDs, develop the confidence to ask questions and test ideas.

Used daily by researchers and students alike, this space is a hub for building and refining scientific setups, and a venue for workshops and courses that welcome new minds every year.

It has reshaped how science is done at the Champalimaud Foundation. By empowering students, it strengthens entire research teams.

The symposium will bring together national and international experts to explore the dynamic evolution of the field, with a special focus on the close collaboration between radiology and surgery.

Diagnostic and interventional radiology are currently undergoing remarkable transformation. New imaging methodologies are redefining precision and diagnostic capability, achieving unprecedented levels of accuracy and clinical impact. Innovations such as photon-counting CT technology and ultra-fast MRI protocols are rapidly expanding the horizons of medical imaging.

Host

Rita Fior, PhD, Cancer development and innate immune evasion Lab

Venue

Seminar Room

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.

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.