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. 

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.

The Champalimaud Foundation is excited to announce the upcoming course, Pathology Updates 2026, which will be held on September 21st-23rd in the Seminar Room. This course is organised in partnership with Mayo Clinic Scottsdale and Rochester. The 2026 edition marks its 6th iteration and the 3rd to be hosted at the Champalimaud Foundation.

Published in The Breast, the technical pilot study describes the development and feasibility of an augmented reality-guided system for non-invasive tumour localisation. The work is the result of several years of research led by Tiago Marques, Pedro Gouveia and João Santinha, Group Leaders of the Digital Surgery Lab (DSL) together with several team members such as the PhD student Rafaela Timóteo who helped on the project development as well as data acquisition and analysis.

Host

Carlos Minutti, PhD, Immunoregulation Lab

Venue

Seminar Room

Since 2021, CNM has been fostering scientific curiosity, confidence and empowerment among students from underserved communities across the Greater Lisbon area through hands-on experiences, meaningful interactions with researchers and sustained mentoring relationships. 

Host

Miguel Seabra, PhD, Ocular Low-cost Gene Therapy

Venue

Seminar Room

As part of a Marie-Curie Doctoral Network (ELEVATE), we are offering a PhD student position. The proposed project sits at the interface of computational neuroscience and neuromorphic engineering, and is embedded within a strong network of European academic and industrial partners.

Host

Inês Ramos, PhD, Tissue Immunity Lab

Venue

Seminar Room