On the 3rd of October, a full day pre-meeting summit was held on the KPro, the revolutionising keratoprosthesis developed by Claes Dohlman, laureate of the 2022 António Champalimaud Vision Award, receiving it shortly after his 100th birthday. The summit celebrated Dohlman’s legacy with recent advances partly funded by the award and innovative work from around the globe. 
 

The regatta coincided with Portugal's Implantação da República holiday and the 14th anniversary of the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Boats set sail at 11:00 am, with participants and spectators gathering at the Champalimaud Foundation’s waterfront amphitheatre.

With fully functional inpatient and recovery units, as well as operating rooms, the Centre is now prepared to significantly expand the Champalimaud Foundation's capacity to treat pancreatic cancer patients. With a dedicated team of specialists in the treatment and research of this type of cancer, the Centre's mission is to deliver the highest standard of clinical care.

We are a fundamentally visual and social species, and being able to almost instantly recognise particular faces, as well as facial cues, are crucial tools for interacting with our conspecifics and navigating our complex social world.

This congress reaffirmed the collaboration between the two countries in the research and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, a condition with a higher incidence in aging societies like those of Spain and Portugal, and with a profound economic and social impact.

The laureates of the 2024 António Champalimaud Vision Award are researchers Margaret Livingstone, Nancy Kanwisher, Doris Tsao (from the United States) and Winrich Freiwald (Germany) for their innovative contributions to understanding the neural mechanisms underlying facial recognition.  
 
The collective work carried out by these researchers has led to significant advances in the field of visual neuroscience, demonstrating how the brain processes and recognises faces, a fundamental aspect of social interaction and human cognition.
 

Claes Dohlman, emeritus professor of Ophthalmology and former chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Mass Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School, died on July 14, 2024. He was 101.

Often recognized as the “father” of modern corneal science, Dohlman shared the 2022 António Champalimaud Vision Award with Gerrit Melles, from the Netherlands Institute for Innovative Ocular Surgery in Rotterdam.

Bridge AI is a collaborative effort involving the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Research and Development in Lisbon (INESC-ID), and Unbabel, among others. The initiative is part of the broader goal to align globally competitive AI innovation with European principles and values.

The images created during the daily scientific and medical endeavours at the Champalimaud Foundation can be as beautiful and compelling as any work of art. To the untrained eye, these images might also appear baffling, but, if you know what you’re looking at, they may just reveal information that can spark discoveries, contribute to the improvement of patient quality of life and maybe even alter our understanding of reality.

The images created during the daily scientific and medical endeavours at the Champalimaud Foundation can be as beautiful and compelling as any work of art. To the untrained eye, these images might also appear baffling, but, if you know what you’re looking at, they may just reveal information that can spark discoveries, contribute to the improvement of patient quality of life and maybe even alter our understanding of reality.