Champalimaud Colorectal Cancer Conference
February 13 & 14, 2023
Lisbon/Portugal

Host Organisers: Amjad Parvaiz, Bill Heald, José Azevedo, Laura Fernandez, Pedro Vieira

The surgical treatment of colorectal cancer continues to advance through development of new surgical techniques and rethinking of previous approaches.

The second edition of Metamersion, the cycle of artistic, scientific, technological and therapeutic immersive events of the Champalimaud Foundation, launches on December 15th with the programme Latent Spaces, taking place at the Champalimaud Warehouse, in the former warehouses of DocaPesca, in Lisbon, in a location that is also in a latent phase, and where the first steps towards the creation of a centre dedicated to Human Neuroecology and Digital Therapeutics are being taken.

This course is promoted by Champalimaud Foundation's Fior Lab, integrated in the congento - Consortium for Genetically Tractable Organisms - initiatives.

The scientific programme will cover

- Protocols for preparation of human cancer cells for injection;
- Generation of zebrafish xenografts (microinjection in the perivitelline space);
- Metastatic assay;
- Protocols for immunofluorescence;
- Mounting xenografts for confocal imaging;
- Confocal session.

Venue

Champalimaud Center for the Unknown, Lisbon

Everything around a malignant tumour and its metastases, from its so-called microenvironment to the patients themselves as individuals, influences cancerous growth, and ultimately the outcome of the disease. This is the take-away message from CRSy2022 – the three-day international scientific symposium that took place at the Champalimaud Foundation, in Lisbon, from 19 to 21 October.

Portuguese painter Armanda Passos (1944-2021) will be honoured at the Champalimaud Foundation Exhibition Centre in the first retrospective of her work.

The exhibition opens on November 16 at 12 pm and runs until December 30, 2022, and is curated by Fabíola Passos, the Artist’s daughter. As an addition to the exhibition, a retrospective book was also published containing the text “A powerful imagination” signed by Professor Raquel Henriques da Silva.

This public event, organised by the RAISE (Researchers in Action for Inclusion in Science and Education) consortium composed of the NGO Native Scientist, the Champalimaud Foundation and the Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM), joined the 49 ERNs that took place in 25 European countries on the same date.

Two editions of the European Researchers’ Night will be held at the incredible premises of the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown located in Lisbon.

To reach members of the public from underserved and underprivileged communities, the European Researchers’ Night will be supported by several pre-events and co-created by researchers and members of the public, namely students from the school programmes and artists.

It is with great enthusiasm that we invite you to register for the second hybrid edition of CRSy, to be held at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown (CCU), in a stunning setting on the waterfront in Lisbon, Portugal, from October 19–21.

The overall goal of this event is to highlight examples from international funding entities that are either already piloting or considering implementing different models to allocate research funds, with a particular emphasis on the partial randomisation process, and highlight the perspective of researchers on this topic.

The session will end with a roundtable discussion featuring the views from researchers hosted by Portuguese institutions on whether partial randomisation is an appropriate alternative to the current peer review process.