21 August 2024

Check Up #25 - Did you know that certain claims about cancer risks are actually myths?

Here are some recurrent unproven claims:

12 August 2024

Pink Elephants in the Brain? How Experience Shapes Neural Connectivity

How do we learn to make sense of our environment? Over time, our brain builds a hierarchy of knowledge, with higher-order concepts linked to the lower-order features that comprise them. For instance, we learn that cabinets contain drawers and that Dalmatian dogs have black-and-white patches, and not vice versa. This interconnected framework shapes our expectations and perception of the world, allowing us to identify what we see based on context and experience.

07 Aug. 2024

Open Position for a Gastroenterologist

Clinical Centre
Application Starts: 07 Aug. 2024

The Champalimaud Clinical Centre intends to admit a newly qualified specialist in gastroenterology, with a maximum of 24 months of specialist, and who seeks to develop interventional endoscopy skills, in all the range of its techniques, including the biliopancreatic area, but also with a focus on the resection of early lesions, echoendoscopy and palliative approaches. 
 
The Champalimaud Clinical Center intends to admit on a full-time basis and full dedication. 
 

Inês Dias

International Congress on Neurodegenerative Diseases

Co-organised by Fundación CIEN, Fundación Reina Sofía, and the Champalimaud Foundation, this scientific congress aims to bring advances in research in the fight against Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases to the public, and above all, to raise awareness to advance the search for global solutions and responses due to their social consequences.

18 July 2024

Breast cancer: first scientifically validated guidelines on the usefulness of the imaging exam known as FDG PET/CT

Experts from two international nuclear medicine societies (EANM and SNMMI) have joined those from important societies of various other medical specialities involved in the care of breast cancer patients – including oncology, surgery, radio-oncology and breast imaging – to draw up a set of recommendations, based on scientific evidence, on the correct utilisation, in breast cancer, of a medical imaging exam. The exam in question has been used for several years and involves radioactive substances, in this case a glucose analogue called fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG).

11 Jul. 2024

2 Postdoctoral Fellows at Tissue Immunity Lab

Research
Application Starts: 11 Jul. 2024

THIS CALL IS NOW CLOSED 

 

Champalimaud Foundation (Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr. Carlos Montez Champalimaud), a private, non-profit research institution in Lisbon, Portugal, is looking for a 2 Postdocs to join our team at the Champalimaud Research Program. 

The selected candidate will:

The position

09 July 2024

Four Researchers in Portugal Elected as EMBO Members

Now, Megan Carey from the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), Mónica Sousa from the Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S), Ricardo Henriques from the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), and Rui Oliveira from IGC and the Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida (ISPA), become EMBO Mem

Innovative High-throughput Approaches to Understanding and Combating Cancer

Host

Adriana Sánchez Danés, Principal Investigator, Champalimaud Research


Venue

Seminar room


Abstract

To overcome the complexities of cancer and pave a path towards a cure, the McManus Lab is developing innovative approaches that consider both the genetic drivers of the disease and its interactions within the cellular environment. Join Dr. McManus to explore new technologies and methods to combat this multifaceted complex human disease.

04 July 2024

Bridge AI: Spearheading Responsible AI in Portugal

Bridge AI is a collaborative effort involving the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Research and Development in Lisbon (INESC-ID), and Unbabel, among others. The initiative is part of the broader goal to align globally competitive AI innovation with European principles and values.

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