Host

Miguel Seabra, PhD, Ocular low-cost gene therapy

Venue

Seminar Room

The Open Labs are where scientific research comes to life at the Champalimaud Foundation.

Filled every day with scientists discussing ideas, testing setups, analysing data and challenging assumptions, these spaces thrive on curiosity, collaboration and discovery.

Here, questions are encouraged. Experiments are tested, sometimes fail, and are then rethought, refined and repeated, transforming uncertainty into knowledge.

The Vision Award Office is where ideas are shaped into global recognition.

It is here that the António Champalimaud Vision Award takes form, through careful preparation, collaboration and informed decision-making.

It is also home to the Ethics Committee, where research projects, in particular clinical studies, are supported and rigorously reviewed.

Here, decisions are not rushed. They are considered, debated and refined.

Because creating impact, and recognising it, requires the freedom to think deeply, to question, and to choose with responsibility.

Caring for patients is one of the Champalimaud Foundation’s core purposes, and the Radiotherapy Service supports that mission every day. 

In a highly controlled environment, precise doses of radiation are targeted to treat different types of cancer. 

Behind this precision is a dedicated team of specialised doctors, physicists, nurses and technicians, working together to ensure each treatment is both safe and effective.

Every detail matters. Every decision is guided by expertise, responsibility and care.

Based at the Champalimaud Foundation’s Neuropsychiatry Unit and the newly established Digital Neurotherapeutics Centre, Cotovio is recognised for research that advances a more mechanistic understanding of psychiatric disorders. As part of this distinction, he is featured in the Innovators & Ideas series in Brain Medicine, which highlights emerging leaders in translational neuroscience.
 

Towards causal models in psychiatry

Host

Carlos Minutti, PhD, Immunoregulation Lab

Venue

Seminar Room

Researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation, in Lisbon, have for the first time managed to identify, with an imaging technique, whether nervous impulses in the brain of rats are flowing in a “bottom-up” (feedforward), carrying information about visual input, or a “top-down” (feedback) direction, carrying information about expectations or predictions on a given task or about the perception of the world around us.

A synergy in advanced therapies

Signed in Rome on 28 April, the agreement combines the Champalimaud Foundation’s expertise in adult oncology with Bambino Gesù’s recognised leadership in paediatric oncology and cell therapies. This synergy strengthens the link between research and clinical practice throughout the translational medicine pathway.

The Teaching Lab is much more than a classroom. It’s where students, from their first experiments to their PhDs, develop the confidence to ask questions and test ideas.

Used daily by researchers and students alike, this space is a hub for building and refining scientific setups, and a venue for workshops and courses that welcome new minds every year.

It has reshaped how science is done at the Champalimaud Foundation. By empowering students, it strengthens entire research teams.

Host

Rita Fior, PhD, Cancer development and innate immune evasion Lab

Venue

Seminar Room