Champalimaud Research
champalimaudr.bsky.social
Champalimaud Research
@champalimaudr.bsky.social
Non-profit organisation - Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

Neuroscience & Cancer Research
Science Communication & Outreach

https://www.fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud-research
⭐️We wish you Happy Holidays!
As we celebrate 20 years, we are reminded that our journey was shaped by Many People, towards Many Futures
We invited our community to add portraits to #20Years20Stories exhibition, since the history of an institution is a collection of the stories of those who shape it
December 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
📣 It’s time to save the date for next year’s Champalimaud Research Symposium (CRSy26): 14 to 16 October 2026!
The CRSy26 will explore the theme 🟫🟦🟧 “Neural and Immune Codes in Cancer”.
👉 The call for abstracts will open on 27 January 2026 here: symposium.fchampalimaud.science
Stay tuned!
December 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
#20Years20Stories Collection
2️⃣0️⃣Defining moments with Leonor Beleza
Leonor Beleza’s story shows us how a single call set everything in motion
📝 Full story: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/phone-c...
May we never run out of stories capable of transcending time.
🔗 www.fchampalimaud.org/20-years-20-...
December 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
#20Years20Stories Collection
1️⃣9️⃣ Defining moments with @megancarey.bsky.social
Megan Carey’s story tells us about big dreams and big ideas that came true.
📝 Full story: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/intangi...
🔗 Collection: www.fchampalimaud.org/20-years-20-...
December 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🧠 Treating Bipolar Depression: How repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) is changing the game
🔍 A review from the Neuropsychiatry Unit reveals rTMS as a promising treatment. This technique is available at the new Digital Neurotherapeutics Centre.
📖 fchampalimaud.org/news/why-tra...
December 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
👀 The applications to the International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme at the Champalimaud Foundation are open until 31 Jan 2026.

❓ Still deciding if the INDP is for you? Then check out our curriculum in a nutshell!

👉 Don’t miss this opportunity! More info here: fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...
December 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
20 Years, 20 Stories Collection
1️⃣8️⃣ Then and now with Zachary Mainen
Zach Mainen’s story is a reminder that the future isn’t fixed, it’s built through continuous adaptation.
📝 Full story: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/blank-s...
🔗 Collection: www.fchampalimaud.org/20-years-20-...
December 16, 2025 at 6:15 PM
#20Years20Stories Collection
1️⃣7️⃣ Then and now with Maria João Villas-Boas
Maria João Villas-Boas’s story is full of humour, joy and pride.
📝 Full story: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/frontie...
🔗 Collection: www.fchampalimaud.org/20-years-20-...
December 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
💫 The #20Years20Stories Collection is now open!
We hope you to have you visiting, exploring and reflecting on the stories that continue to shape the Champalimaud Foundation (CF).
🗓️ 15 Dec 2025-16 Jan 2026
⏰ Monday to Friday, 9h-18h
📍CF’s Exhibition Centre
Info: www.fchampalimaud.org/events/showi...
December 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🧠Save the date for the 4th YPP 2026 Conference, meeting co-organised between Young Parkies Portugal and the @champalimaudf.bsky.social, in which we will discuss the future of Early-Onset Parkinson's!
🗓️10-11 April 2026
📍 Champalimaud Foundation Auditorium
🎟️ More info soon
🇵🇹Event held in Portuguese
December 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
#20Years20Stories Collection
1️⃣6️⃣ Building community with Joe Paton
Joe Paton’s story tells us about the Champalimaud Foundation’s (CF) ambition to bridge science and medicine.
📝 Full story: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/crossin...
🔗 Collection: www.fchampalimaud.org/20-years-20-...
December 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
#20Years20Stories Collection
1️⃣5️⃣ Building community with António Parreira
António tells us about a journey filled with bold ideas and shared purpose always connecting clinical care and community spirit.
📝 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/buildin...
🔗Collection: www.fchampalimaud.org/20-years-20-...
December 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Today we honour the memory of Adam Kampff, whose passing leaves an immense void in our community.

We are profoundly grateful to Adam. The best way to honour him is to continue innovating, collaborating, and sharing generously, as he taught us. Thank you, Adam Kampff.
December 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
#20Years20Stories Collection
1️⃣4️⃣ Linking research & clinic with Henrique Veiga-Fernandes
Henrique’s story tells us how a building can shape the way people, science and medicine come together.
📝 Full story: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/institu...
🔗 Collection: www.fchampalimaud.org/20-years-20-...
December 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
👏 Congratulations Juan Álvaro Gallego on his project “SELECT” being selected in the ERC Consolidator 2025 Call!

🧠 SELECT will investigate the neural mechanisms underlying the learning, execution and adaptation of skilled movements at multiple brain areas

👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/two-lif...
December 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
#20Years20Stories Collection
1️⃣3️⃣ Linking research and clinic with Maria João Cardoso
This story shows how personalised care and the fusion of science and medicine are shaping the future of patient treatment.
📝 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/between...
🔗 www.fchampalimaud.org/20-years-20-...
December 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Albino J. Oliveira-Maia, neuropsychiatrist at the @champalimaudf.bsky.social, President-Elect of the Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health (2026-2029).

💬 “I hope to continue extending science and innovation to those who most need it." - Albino

Find out more here: shorturl.at/lG1T9
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
@champalimaudf.bsky.social just installed a custom-built 18-Tesla horizontal-bore MRI scanner – the strongest for in-vivo imaging – to advance preclinical research non-invasively in neuroscience and cancer.
Full story: shorturl.at/pGREa

#PreclinicalResearch #Neuroscience #Cancer #MedicalImaging
December 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
#20Years20Stories Collection
1️⃣2️⃣ Behind the Scenes with Joaquim Teixeira
Joaquim Teixeira’s story is an example of how fast adaptation to new roles and projects helps shape the future of an institution.
📝Story: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/invisib...
🔗Collection: www.fchampalimaud.org/20-years-20-...
December 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
#20Years20Stories Collection
1️⃣1️⃣ Behind the Scenes with Cátia Feliciano

Cátia's story tells us about curiosity, ingenuity and reinvention.

📝 Full story: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/story-a...
🔗20 Years, 20 Stories Collection: www.fchampalimaud.org/20-years-20-...
December 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
🧠 Applications for the International Neuroscience Doctoral Programme (INDP) @champalimaudf.bsky.social open until 31 January 2026.
☀️ Join our vibrant and international research community in sunny Lisbon!
🔗 fchampalimaud.org/champalimaud...
December 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🔵 Join us for the upcoming COpS!

📣 Marta Moita, Behavioral Neuroscience Lab

📣 Joaquim Alves da Silva, Neural Circuits Dysfunction Lab

🎤Moderated by Rita Fior, Cancer Development and Innate Immune Evasion Lab

🗓️ 15 Dec, 12:00
📍 CF Auditorium
👉 www.fchampalimaud.org/events/champ...
December 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
#20Years20Stories Collection
1️⃣0️⃣ Tech and tools through time with Gonçalo Lopes
Gonçalo shares how the willingness to build, and share, the tools he needed to understand how the brain works ended up shaping his path.
📝 www.fchampalimaud.org/news/bonsai-...
🔗 www.fchampalimaud.org/20-years-20-...
December 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
#20Years20Stories Collection
9️⃣ Tech & Tools Through Time with João Santinha
João’s journey reveals how technology can transform care when guided by human purpose.
📝 Full story: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/humanit...
🔗20 Years, 20 Stories Collection: www.fchampalimaud.org/20-years-20-...
Humanity of and in the future | Champalimaud Foundation
20 Years, 20 Stories — Tech & tools through time with João Santinha
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December 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Champalimaud Foundation researchers were recognised by the #PfizerResearchAwards2025 for advances in personalised medicine and metabolic regulation. Congratulations to Rita Fior & Bruna Costa and Henrique Veiga-Fernandes & colleague Marko Šestan!
👉 Full story: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/pfizer-...
November 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM