THIS RECRUITMENT PROCESS IS CLOSED.

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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 Research Technician.

This one-day event will bring together clinicians, researchers, patient representatives, policymakers and ethicists to explore the landscape of psychedelic-assisted care through the lens of the four pillars of medical ethics: beneficence, autonomy, non-maleficence, and justice.

The symposium will delve into safety, regulation, therapeutic practices, and future directions to ensure equitable access to psychedelic-assisted care.

The future of medicine is being redefined by artificial intelligence. From digital twins and precision medicine to AI-driven medical imaging and large language models, cutting-edge technologies are transforming the way we diagnose, treat, and prevent disease.

Sleep disturbances in breast cancer patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy – designed to shrink the tumours prior to surgery – are one of the common side effects of these treatments, which can not only exacerbate other side effects, but also impact prognosis. One of the possible, non-pharmacological strategies to mitigate these disturbances is thought to be physical exercise.

Following Episode 5 - Part 1, where we explored the hidden world of the hypothalamus and the “love hormone” oxytocin, this second part of Hedi’s conversation with neuroendocrinologist Gareth Leng takes us even deeper.

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Offer Description

Applications are welcome for a Research fellowship (Bolsa de Investigação) for a Master’s student to develop their Master’s thesis. The successful applicant will join our team at Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths. One of the reasons for this is that it is difficult to detect and diagnose at an early stage because the currently available methods are impracticable at the population level. 

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%. 

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.