Host

Henrique Veiga-Fernandes, PhD, Immunophysiology Lab

Venue

Seminar Room

Abstract

TBD

Sobre a participação da Fundação Champalimaud

Em outubro, iremos reunir conhecimento, investigação e cuidados de saúde para promover uma abordagem cada vez mais integrada e personalizada ao cancro da mama. Convidamos-vos a conhecer melhor o que fazemos, como investigamos e de que forma estamos a trabalhar para um futuro com mais prevenção, melhores tratamentos e maior qualidade de vida. Juntem-se a nós para partilhar, debater e apoiar.

Idioma

Este programa será conduzido em português.

Jose Espejo Valle-Inclán, formerly at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)  in Hinxton, United Kingdom, is now a Würth Research Centre of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Group Leader based at the Botton-Champalimaud Pancreatic Cancer Centre at the Champalimaud Foundation. Vincenzo Corbo is an Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering for Innovation Medicine and ARC-Net Research Centre at the University of Verona, Italy, and an Associate Researcher also at the Würth Research Centre of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer.

Today, 28 July 2026, the Champalimaud Foundation and the NOVA University Lisbon signed a five-year strategic partnership agreement focused on scientific research, advanced training and technological innovation, further strengthening collaboration between the two institutions.

The agreement establishes the foundations for joint research and development projects in the areas of health, life sciences and innovation. The aim is to share knowledge, expertise and specialised resources between the two institutions, accelerating the development of new solutions. 

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.