The Champalimaud Foundation is pleased to announce the 5th edition of the international course Pathology Updates 2025, and the 2nd to be hosted by the Foundation, taking place from 15 to 17 September 2025 in the Seminar Room at the Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon.

Organised in partnership with Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, this course builds on the success of the 2024 edition and continues its mission of offering high-impact, practice-oriented updates in surgical pathology and cytopathology.

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. 

“I love talking about the molecular structure [I discovered]”, said Ardem Patapoutian, who leads a lab at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, as he was presenting his work to an audience gathered at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), in Lisbon, last week. “It's very easy for me to talk about it when I have PowerPoint slides, but what if I'm in a restaurant or in a bar and I want to tell someone about how it works? I decided to get a tattoo of the structure and I want to share it with you.”

What drives someone to fear their own thoughts, or an Ethiopian schoolgirl to eat the wall of her house, bit by bit? Why do millions of us get stuck in loops of doubt and dread? And what does it mean to have a brain that simply won’t let go?

The Auditorium of the Champalimaud Foundation will be the stage for artists and scientists to share with the public their ideas for the future, in a sequence of lectures/performances anchored in reality or hand in hand with fiction. A unique event where the affinities of art and science are revealed in their curiosity for the unknown.

The Champalimaud Foundation opens the applications to the 5th edition of the Fundamentals of Medicine Postgratuate Course, a unique course designed for life sciences researchers interested in exploring medical terminology, concepts, and issues, with a focus on fostering collaboration between researchers and medical doctors. 

The Hands-on Molecular Tools workshop aims to cover the fundamental principles and standard techniques used in Molecular Biology and will be taught by experts from CF, FCT-UNL and FCUL/cE3c.

This course will incorporate theoretical and practical classes, where the participants will acquire experience on RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis, PCR, restriction enzyme digestion, electrophoresis, plasmid DNA isolation, as well as, bioinformatics analysis and experimental design of a cloning project. 

It was a happy coincidence: the final text of the Recommendations of the Multidisciplinary and Multiprofessional Working Group on the Clinical Use of Psychedelic Substances was released on the same day that the Portuguese National Health System announced its decision to fully reimburse the treatment of resistant depression with a substance called esketamine.

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Position overview

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Post-Doctoral Fellow to join our dynamic research team at the Botton-Champalimaud Pancreatic Cancer Centre. This prestigious center is dedicated to advancing pancreatic cancer research and treatment through innovative approaches and multidisciplinary collaboration.

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Offer Description

A Call for one research fellowship (Bolsa de Investigação) for a Game/VR Developer is open at Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr.