Host

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

Venue

Seminar Room

This was the starting point for RTP’s programme Hora de Agir, which dedicated one of its episodes to carbon neutrality in healthcare, highlighting the path the Champalimaud Foundation is taking to become the first healthcare institution in the world to operate on 100% clean energy. The programme featured João Silveira Botelho, Vice-President of the Champalimaud Foundation, who stressed the urgency of transforming how healthcare consumes energy and resources.

The three-year grant, worth $1 million, is part of the largest-ever grant programme launched by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), which aims to support promising scientists at critical junctures in their careers. Correia was one of 15 researchers selected to share a total of $15 million to pursue paradigm-shifting ideas in cancer biology, with the ultimate aim of improving patient outcomes. 

She is the only awardee based in Portugal and one of a small number of researchers selected outside the United States.

Could radiotherapy become the standard for lung cancer treatment? Could Artificial Intelligence (AI) help oncologists in treatment selection? Should many more resources be devoted to prevention, namely populational screening for this cancer? 

Cancer experts gathered at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), in Lisbon, for the third edition of the Lung Cancer Fight Club, to debate for a day on these and other issues.

"How the brain tracks the body (without satellites!)"

Eugenia Chiappe, Sensorimotor Integration Lab
 

"Cellular plasticity in the brain: mechanisms linking tissue repair and tumorigenesis"

Christa Rhiner, Stem Cells and Regeneration Lab
 

Moderation

Albino Oliveira-Maia, Neuropsychiatry