The European Commission has announced today (January 28) the selection of the Human Brain Project (HBP) as one of its two winners of the Future and Emerging Technologies Flagship Projects, an European initiative which aims to address the greatest challenges of modern science.

Rui Costa and Zachary Mainen from the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme are amongst the, more than, 200 researchers involved in this project.

The CNP’s Leopoldo Petreanu is one of 28 scientists named as recipients of HFSP Young Investigator grants.

Do we always make better decisions when we take more time to think?
Or are there decisions where more time doesn’t really help?

Megan Carey

Norte-Americana, 38 anos
Investigadora principal do “Laboratório de circuitos neurais e do comportamento”. Do Centro de Investigação de Neurociências da Fundação Champalimaud, onde está desde 2010. Fez o doutoramento na Califórnia e um pós-doc na Faculdade de Medicina de harvard. Entre os vários prémios que recebeu, foi nomeada pelo Instituto Médico Howard Hughes, nos EUA, como uma das futuras líderes de ciência no seu país.

April was a full month for CNP outreach! CNP researchers participated in a range of outreach events including presentations and discussions before wide audiences in TEDxO’Porto, Culturgest and Tertúlias de Jornalismo e Literatura, hosting an exciting Ar event, visiting and speaking at schools and participating in a science communication contest, all in the spirit of sharing science with everyone.

Susana Lima

Interviews with portuguese fashion magazine “Máxima” printed May edition.
“Chemistry, love at first sight, we know that it exists and in humans it is very visual, but its much more than that (…)”

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Paving the way for thought-controlled prostheses

Alfonso Renart was interviewed by Antena 1, a Portuguese radio station, as part of a story about Spanish people living in Portugal. Listen what Alfonso says about science and how he feels about Portuguese and Spanish way of thinking.
Listen to the full story here

Mundo na Escola is a programme from the Portuguese Ministry for Education and Science which aims at bridging the gap between schools and arts, sciences and literature.
Joe Paton and Marta Moita explain why is the sky blue…
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O neurocientista Zachary Mainen, que fundou e dirige o Programa de Neurociências da Fundação Champalimaud, defendeu hoje que se deve continuar a investir em ciência fundamental, mesmo quando os fundos escasseiam e a ciência aplicada parece mais importante.