📣 You can now check the #CRSy25 ⚪ programme! Explore the main themes: 🔎 Scaling up ➰ Cybernetic Loops 🤖Models and Robots 🎟️ symposium.fchampalimaud.science/registration-1 👉 symposium.fchampalimaud.science/programme 🗓️15-17 October 📍Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon @protocollabs.bsky.social

For this #PostdocAppreciationWeek, step into our labs, say “Hi” to our postdocs and find out what they have been up to! 🫰🧬🔬 They are key members in the labs, playing an important role in mentoring, communicating research findings + securing funding. Join us in celebrating them 🙌 #PAW2025

Catch up on the latest #LeafingThroughScience #podcast 🎙️ where neuroscientist @nicolecrust.bsky.social @upenn.edu joins Hedi to explore how we think about the #brain that could transform how we understand and treat its #disorders 🧠💭👇 🎧: rss.com/podcasts/lea... 📺: youtu.be/vlW6i-A_Awc

🔵 Join us for the upcoming COpS! 📣 Effective Neural Dynamical System Memming Park, Neural Dynamics Lab 💬Moderator: Klaas van Gisbergen 🗓️ 29 Sept, 12:00 📍 CF Auditorium 👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/events/champ...

Welcome to our class of 2025 PhD students in 🧠Neuroscience & 🔬Cancer! This week, they dove into the Champalimaud Research culture with a very busy (+ fun) schedule, from 🔎Ethics in Science sessions, to 🍕Pizza & Quiz night! Wishing them great success in the journey ahead!

What if #braindisorders 🧠 aren’t broken parts to be fixed 🛠️ but hurricanes to be redirected? 🌪️ Find out in the latest #LeafingThroughScience #podcast🎙️with neuroscientist @nicolecrust.bsky.social as we address one of humanity’s biggest challenges. 🎧: rss.com/podcasts/lea... 📺: youtu.be/vlW6i-A_Awc

⏰ You still have 1 week to secure your spot to join us and leading experts for a conference on gynaecological and urological cancers! 🔎 📅 22 September 2025, 14:00-19:00 🎟️ Register here: shorturl.at/oLWFu 💬 🇵🇹 This conference will be conducted in Portuguese

🚀 We’re proud to celebrate 2 researchers who have won @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants 2025 worth €3.49M! 👏 👨‍🔬 Joaquim Alves da Silva – how the #brain initiates movement & #Parkinsons 👨‍🔬 Marko Šestan – nervous-immune system interactions & #infection control 🔗 Read more: shorturl.at/3kbcb #ERCStG

🧠 How does the #brain decide? 🤔 A new @nature.com study from @intlbrainlab.bsky.social‬, including @champalimaudf.bsky.social, reveals the first brain-wide map of #decisionmaking 🗺️ 🔗👉 shorturl.at/AACXF #Neuroscience #OpenScience

#PhDone! Congratulations to our new #Doctor, Carlos Bilreiro, from the Preclinical MRI Lab and the Radiology Service at Champalimaud Foundation. We wish you all the best for your future, Carlos 👏

⏱️ There’s only one month until the “Psychedelic Therapy: From Evidence to Equity” symposium! 🗓️ 1 October 📍 Champalimaud Foundation Auditorium 🎟️ Registration and more information: www.fchampalimaud.org/events/psych...

The best night of the year is almost here! 🌕 The #EuropeanResearchersNight on 26 Sep brings #science closer to the public through #free + #open to all #exhibitions, #talks + #handsonactivities. @champalimaudf.bsky.social will run 2️⃣ special activities in 2️⃣ different locations. Read to learn more! 👇

The Champalimaud Research (CR) Colloquia Series is a weekly seminar programme open to everyone, where a speaker is invited to give a talk at the Foundation. 🔎 Check our September calendar and join a discussion on 🧠 neuroscience or 🦠 physiology & cancer research. 🔗 forms.gle/21J3GfPFMwm9...

👏 Congratulations to Marcelo Mendonça for his project being selected in the Science4Policy 2025 call, promoted by the Centre for Planning and Evaluation of Public Policies (PLANAPP) in collaboration with the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)!

Get one more taste of summer while (re)visiting the "Brain's Heart” with Hedi and @g-leng.bsky.social‬ in Ep5 #LeafingThroughScience! 🎧 rss.com/podcasts/lea... 🎥 youtu.be/et_T1gpXoHU And with all episodes (re)visited, tune back in Sept for new stories that feed your brain! @mitpress.bsky.social

🐠 Joana Monteiro, Fish Platform📍@champalimaudf.bsky.social, has joined again the science outreach programme from #NativeScientists, #CientistaRegressaàEscola! Curious to know which activities were developed? Take a look at the pictures! 👉 More about this programme: www.nativescientists.org/cre

🤖 Can AI help reduce the need for invasive prostate biopsies? 🩻 A study from @champalimaudf.bsky.social shows that AI can support radiologists in identifying prostate cancer, potentially avoiding biopsies in around 20% of cases. 👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/artific... 📔 pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...

The Medica AI 2026 ⚡PRE-SALE continues. Secure your spot at the best rate! €49 until 16 Sep 2025 €59 17 Sep 2025 - 16 Jan 2026 €79 17 Jan 2026 - 20 Jun 2026 €99 after 20 Jun 2026 📅 16 Jul 2026 📍 Champalimaud Foundation 🎟️ Registration: www.fchampalimaud.org/events/medic...

Enjoy a palm tree's shade to (re)listen to Ep4 of #LeafingThroughScience, with @anilseth.bsky.social & Hedi discussing 📘 ‘Being You: A New Science of Consciousness’ 🎧 rss.com/podcasts/lea... 🎥 y2u.be/d6EKSYn2MZo (re)imagine your summer + tune-in for mind-bending stories. 🌴🌀 @faberbooks.bsky.social

It is time to step into the crowd and get your Early Bird ticket for the #CRSy25 ⚪ ! 🎟️ Register before 5 September: symposium.fchampalimaud.science 🗓️ 15-17 October 📍 Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon Join the conversation about #NeuroCyberneticsAtScale

#Milestone for #PsyPal Consortium: The first patient has joined the first EU-funded multi-site clinical trial on psilocybin therapy, 🍄 for psychological and existential distress in people with progressive, life-limiting illnesses! More on this project here: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/first-p...

(re)visit the truth about obsessive- compulsive disorder (OCD) & (re)listen to Ep. 3 of #LeafingThroughScience, with David Adams + Hedi discussing ‘The Man Who Couldn't Stop: The Truth About OCD’ 🎧https://rss.com/podcasts/leafing-through-science/2048642/ 🎥https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egha5lB1lw8

💻 🧠 It's a wrap for this year’s @cajal-training.bsky.social at the @champalimaudf.bsky.social! We hosted the ‘Interacting with Neural Circuits’ course, with Isaac Bianco, Susana Lima and Tiago Branco as directors, and the ‘NeuroAI’ course with Fabian Sinz, Leyla Isik, Mariya Toneva and Srini Turaga.

💻 🧠 It's a wrap for this year’s @cajal-training.bsky.social at the @champalimaudf.bsky.social! We hosted the ‘Interacting with Neural Circuits’ course, with Isaac Bianco, Susana Lima and Tiago Branco as directors, and the ‘NeuroAI’ course with Fabian Sinz, Leyla Isik, Mariya Toneva and Srini Turaga.

(re)think our most poetic organ🫀& (re)listen Ep2 #LeafingThroughScience! (re)visit Sian Harding + Hedi discussing ‘The Exquisite Machine: The New Science of the Heart’ 🎧 rss.com/podcasts/lea... 🎥 youtu.be/00jc2JU97cc (re)imagine your summer + tune-in for mind-bending ☀️🌀stories. @mitpress.bsky.social

🍄 Interested in psychedelic therapy & how it can reach more patients? 👉 Psychedelic Therapy: From Evidence to Equity. Whether you're in clinical practice, research, or policy, join this event in about psychedelic therapy. 🗓️ 1 Oct 📍 Champalimaud Foundation 🎟️ www.fchampalimaud.org/events/psych...

☀️There is a heat-wave coming, so take the time to (re)listen Ep 1 of #LeafingThroughScience! (re)visit Hedi and Moheb Costandi talking about the book Body Am I 🧠 🎧: rss.com/podcasts/lea... 🎥: youtu.be/TFza42DxlL8 @mitpress.bsky.social (re)imagine your summer and tune-in for mind-bending ☀️🌀 stories.

(1/2)As we wrap up Medica AI – The Conference 2025, we opened the ⚡PRE-SALE ⚡ for 2026. The future of medicine is being redefined by artificial intelligence. Be part of the conversation 🚀 📅 Save the date: 16 July 2026 📍 Champalimaud Foundation 👉 Get your ticket now: www.eventbrite.pt/e/medica-ai-...

#PhDone! Congratulations to our new #Doctor, Teresa Serradas Duarte, from Learning Lab and Neural Circuits and Behaviour Lab at Champalimaud Research. We wish you all the best for your future, Teresa 👏

📣 Registrations for the 2nd Botton-Champalimaud International Pancreatic Cancer Conference (BCIPCC) are now open! 🗓️ 29 Oct -1 Nov 📍 Botton-Champalimaud Pancreatic Cancer Centre & @champalimaudf.bsky.social 🎟️ www.bcipcc.org

In Ep 5 - Part 2 of the #LeafingThroughScience #podcast🎙️🎥, we unpack more secrets from the “heart of the brain” ❤️🧠, from multilingual neurons 🗣️ and the science of obesity to brain transplants that literally reset time ⏰ 🎧: rss.com/podcasts/lea... 🎥: youtu.be/I9qyDXLkAoo @mitpress.bsky.social‬

🙌 We are celebrating AI Appreciation Day - a date dedicated to the recognition of AI breakthroughs in science, tech and healthcare, w/ the start of Medica AI - The Conference 2025! 🥼Today, we bring together clinicians, researchers, and innovators to explore the next generation of medicine.

👏 Congratulations!! Projects from the Champalimaud Foundation were selected in the MSCA Doctoral Networks: 💫ELEVATE - Christian Machens & Joe Paton + KU Leuven 💫INTEGRATE - Albino Oliveira-Maia & Carolina Seybert + University of Groningen CF is also Associated Partner in a project w/ Noam Shemesh

👏 Congratulations to Michael Orger for his project “AI-Enhanced Zebrafish Screening: A Low-Cost Solution for High-Throughput Biomedical Research” being selected in the ERC Proof of Concept 2025 Call, promoted by the European Research Council! @erc.europa.eu #ERCPoC #Grants #Neuroscience #Science

💥Good news! You have now until 18 July to submit your abstract for the ⚪ Champalimaud Research Symposium 2025! 🏆 The three best posters and the best talk will be awarded a money prize! We’re looking forward to receiving your submissions 🙌 🔗 More information: symposium.fchampalimaud.science

🧠 In Ep 5 – Part 2 of our new #podcast #LeafingThroughScience 🎙️👀: ⏰A brain transplant that resets time. 🗣️Neurons that switch languages. 💊A molecule that curbs appetite, boosts libido & even gives you a tan. 🎧: rss.com/podcasts/lea... 🎥: youtu.be/I9qyDXLkAoo @mitpress.bsky.social‬

🎯Join us for a conference on gynaecological and urological cancers to discuss the prevention, treatment and challenges of these cancers. 🗓️22 Sept 📍Champalimaud Foundation Auditorium 👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/events/confe... 🎟️Free, but registration is mandatory: forms.gle/zzcMCnqtZsqw... 💬In Portuguese

🙌 Medica AI - The Conference is SOLD OUT! We look forward to welcoming everyone that registered on 16 July to discuss with doctors and technologists the new AI innovations and their implementation in medical practice. 📅 16 Jul 📍 Champalimaud Foundation 👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/medica-ai-co...

#PhDone! Congratulations to our new #Doctor, Ana Carolina Rodrigues, from Computational Clinical Imaging Group at @champalimaudf.bsky.social. We wish you all the best for your future, Ana Carolina 👏

The 2024 @champalimaudr.bsky.social Annual Report is out! 🧠🔬🎭🌄💡 👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/sites/defaul... While we wait for the printed edition – which this year will have a wrapped surprise 🎨👀 – you can explore the digital version now. Creativity ✨. Co-creation 🤝. A year of going beyond 🚀.

Meet your hypothalamus - a tiny region of the brain, with a giant impact on your life. Join Hedi in Ep5 of the #LeafingThroughScience #videopodcast🎙️🎥, as Gareth Leng unpacks the surprising secrets of the “heart of the brain”❤️🧠 🎧 rss.com/podcasts/lea... 🎥 youtu.be/et_T1gpXoHU @mitpress.bsky.social

💥 We are extending the application deadline to the hands-on #MolecularBiologyToolsWorkshop until July 14th! This workshop is taught by @champalimaudf.bsky.social (CF), FCT-UNL and @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social. 🗓️4-8 Sept 📍CF 🔗Registration: www.fchampalimaud.org/events/4th-e... ⏱️Deadline: 14 July

🙌You can still register to #MedicaAI - The Conference, where doctors and technologists will bridge the gap between AI and its implementation in the clinic. 📅 16 Jul 📍Champalimaud Foundation 👉Programme: www.fchampalimaud.org/medica-ai-co... 🎟️ Deadline: 16 Jul. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medica-ai-...

The Champalimaud Research Colloquia Series is a weekly seminar programme open to everyone, where a speaker is invited to give a talk at the Champalimaud Foundation. 🔎 Check our July calendar and join a discussion on 🧠 neuroscience or 🦠 physiology & cancer research. 🔗 forms.gle/21J3GfPFMwm9...

#PhDone! Congratulations to our new #Doctor, Joaquim Contradanças, from Vision to Action Lab at @champalimaudf.bsky.social. We wish you all the best for your future, Joaquim 👏

⚪ Would you like to join the #CRSy25VolunteeringProgramme? Sign up by 12 Sep 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... ➡️Get #free access to the #CRSy25 scientific & social programme ➡️Interact with #InternationallyRenownedScientists ➡️Gain #valuable #experience in the research ecosystem

🍽️ Appetite. 😡 Aggression. 🧒 Puberty. 👶 Parenthood. Is there anything the #hypothalamus isn’t involved in? Join our new #podcast #LeafingThroughScience 🎙️ as we shine a torch 🔦 into this deep, dark cave of the brain 🧠. 🎧: rss.com/podcasts/lea... 🎥: youtu.be/et_T1gpXoHU @mitpress.bsky.social

#PhDone! Congratulations to our new #Doctor, Mirjam Heinemans, from Behavioural Neuroscience Lab at @champalimaudf.bsky.social. We wish you all the best for your future, Mirjam 👏

👏 Congratulations to Rita Fior on receiving a Grant from Núcleo Regional do Sul da Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro (NRS-LPCC) in partnership with the Oeiras Municipality (Oeiras Valley)!

🔬 The blueprint of life is in our hands 👉 Join us for “Medica AI: The Conference”. Explore how AI & Genomics are transforming how we understand, treat and prevent disease. 📅 16 July 📍 Champalimaud Foundation 🎟️ Register: medicaai.eventbrite.co.uk 🔗 More info: www.fchampalimaud.org/medica-ai-co...