• The Team
The Team
A Driver for Change Through Science and Medicine

The best team for a unique project

The scientific issues related to biomedical research require an interdisciplinary approach and that is why the Champalimaud Foundation gathers prestigious and internationally renowned professionals from different areas of expertise and specialisation.

Board

of Directors

Board

of Directors

Leonor Beleza

Leonor Beleza

President

João Silveira Botelho

João Silveira Botelho

Vice President

António Horta Osório

António Horta Osório

Non-Executive Director

Board of Directors

Meet the directors of the Champalimaud Foundation

The President of the Board of Directors is Leonor Beleza, who was appointed, with a lifetime mandate, by António Champalimaud in his will. She is joined by João Silveira Botelho and António Horta Osório, under the current mandate (2020-2024). Of the Executive Committee are members Leonor Beleza (President) and João Silveira Botelho (Administrator).

General

Council

General Council

Meet the General Council

The members of the General Council are responsible for determining the guidelines of the ongoing development of the Foundation, and come from different cultural and professional backgrounds. All are highly considered in their respective areas and all are committed to improving people’s well-being. The President of the General Council is Daniel Proença de Carvalho, and in late 2019, The Queen Sofia of Spain joined as an Honorary member.

General

Council

Daniel Proença de Carvalho

Daniel Proença de Carvalho

President

Aníbal Cavaco Silva

Aníbal Cavaco Silva

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

António Coutinho

António Coutinho

António Damásio

António Damásio

Pedro D'Abreu Loureiro

Pedro D'Abreu Loureiro

Manuela Ferreira Leite

Manuela Ferreira Leite

Paulo Portas

Paulo Portas

Manuel Alegre

Manuel Alegre

Rainha Sofia de Espanha

Rainha Sofia de Espanha

Maria Isabel Barroso Lopes Soares

Maria Isabel Barroso Lopes Soares

Paulo Cardoso Correia da Mota Pinto

Paulo Cardoso Correia da Mota Pinto

Ethics

Committee

Ethics

Committee

José Manuel Cardoso da Costa

José Manuel Cardoso da Costa

President

Adelino Cardoso

Adelino Cardoso

André Valente

André Valente

António Jacinto

António Jacinto

António Parreira

António Parreira

Isabel Palmeirim

Isabel Palmeirim, MD, PhD

Isabel Pavão Martins

Isabel Pavão Martins

José Cunha-Vaz

José Cunha-Vaz

Leonor Parreira

Leonor Parreira

Mário Miguel Rosa

Mário Miguel Rosa

Paula Martinho da Silva

Paula Martinho da Silva

Ethics Committee

Meet the Ethics Committee

The main mission of the Champalimaud Foundation’s Ethics Committee is to ensure the observance of the highest ethical standards in the practice of its scientific activities , analysing every ethical issue inherent to medical practice.

Vision Award

Jury

Vision Award Jury

Meet the Vision Award Jury

The jury of the Vision Award comprises a panel of prestigious international personalities and prominent public figures whose lives have been devoted to solving the problems of developing countries.

Vision Award

Jury

Alfred Sommer

Alfred Sommer

President

Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen

Carla Shatz

Carla Shatz

Gullapalli N. Rao

Gullapalli N. Rao

José Cunha-Vaz

José Cunha-Vaz

Joshua Sanes

Joshua Sanes

Mark Bear

Mark Bear

Paul Sieving

Paul Sieving

Susumu Tonegawa

Susumu Tonegawa

Scientific

Advisory Board

Scientific

Advisory Board

Rui Costa

Rui Costa, PhD

Coordinator

Fiona Watt

Fiona Watt, PhD

Evaluation Coordinator

Alan Ashworth

Alan Ashworth, PhD

Caetano Reis e Sousa

Caetano Reis e Sousa, PhD

Carla Shatz

Carla Shatz, PhD

Catherine Dulac, PhD

Eero Simoncelli

Eero Simoncelli, PhD

Fiona Powrie

Fiona Powrie, PhD

J. Anthony Movshon

J. Anthony Movshon, PhD

Larry Norton

Larry Norton, MD, PhD

Ton Schumacher

Ton Schumacher, PhD

Yasmine Belkaid

Yasmine Belkaid, PhD

Scientific Advisory Board

Meet the Scientific Advisory Board

The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) is composed of internationally recognised scientists and advises the leadership of the Foundation on the direction of scientific pursuit, the quality and impact of the research programmes and investigators.

Fiscal

Supervisory Board

Fiscal Supervisory Board

Meet the Fiscal Supervisory Board

The Foundation is supervised by a fiscal supervisory board, comprised of a president and two members. The members of the supervisory board are appointed by the General Council, at the proposal of its President, for a period of five years, successively renewable, with the term 2020-2024 currently in force.

Fiscal

Supervisory Board

António Soares Pinto Barbosa

President

Maria Teresa da Silva Morais

Maria Teresa da Silva Morais

Member

António Henriques de Pinho Cardão

Member

Director

of the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

Zvi Fuks - Director of the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

Zvi Fuks

Zvi Fuks studied at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem (1962). After fulfilling academic functions at Stanford University in California, he was appointed professor and president of the department of radiation and medical oncology at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem (1976-1984). Later, he became president of the department of radiation oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York (1984-1998 and 2004-2005), as well as its Deputy Physician-in-Chief for Planning (1998-2004). Currently, Dr. Fuks is the Director of the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown.

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