This recognition affirms the dedication and collaborative effort of countless individuals over the years in building the diverse and sophisticated infrastructure necessary to support a world-class, cutting-edge biomedical research centre.

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.

The Informatics Technology Department Unit at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, is looking for a Junior Data Manager dedicated to designing business intelligence processes and harmonising corporate, medical and research data for extraction of relevant metrics. It will be your job to liaise between the different branches of the institution.

A Call for one Research fellowship (Bolsa de Investigação) for a 3D/VR Developer is open at Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr. Carlos Montez Champalimaud (Champalimaud Foundation) in the context of the project entitled “Research Infrastructure for Digital Therapeutics”, with reference “LISBOA2030-FEDER-01316800” from the call Nº “LISBOA2030-2024-15”, funded by the: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), through the Lisbon Regional Programme 2021-2027.

At the Champalimaud Colorectal Cancer Conference, last February, Gina Brown, from the Imperial College London, questioned the validity of the current staging strategy for colon cancer. Indeed, research shows that lymph nodes are not the main culprit in colon cancer spread, and can actually be a sign that the patient’s immune system is fighting back. 

Coordinated by Professor Ana Santos Almeida, principal investigator of a translational laboratory at the GIMM Foundation - Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM-CARE), this study will take place at the Champalimaud Foundation, in collaboration with Dr. José Azevedo, surgeon of the Colorectal Cancer Group of the Digestive Unit of the Champalimaud Clinical Center, and at the Hospital de Santa Maria, with the participation of oncologists Professor Luís Costa and Dr. André Mansinho.

Host

Albino Oliveira-Maia, MD, PhD, Neuropsychiatry Unit

Venue

Seminar room

Host

Margarida Caio, Stem Cells and Regeneration Lab

Venue

Seminar room

A Call for one Research Fellow for a Master student is open at Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr. Carlos Montez Champalimaud (Champalimaud Foundation) in the context of the project entitled “Viscerosensory patwhays in nutrient postingestive signalling”, with reference “PTDC/SAU-NUT/3507/2021” from the call Nº PTDC2021, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), through Portuguese National Funds (PIDDAC).

A New Player in Pancreatic Cancer

The team found that some pancreatic cancer cells gain a major survival edge by carrying copies of critical cancer genes—such as MYC—on circular pieces of DNA that exist outside chromosomes, the structures that house most of our genetic material. Known as ecDNA, these genetic rings float freely in the cell nucleus, enabling tumour cells to swiftly ramp up gene expression, change their shape, and survive in otherwise hostile environments.