Physiology from development to disease

The 2017 Champalimaud Research Symposium, with the theme “Physiology: from development to disease” was held in Lisbon, Portugal from the 9th to the 11th of October 2017. The Symposium was a single-track scientific meeting with 14 invited speakers. It focused on modern physiology in development, aging, immunity and cancer, bridging cutting edge biology research with disease oriented research, and featured a keynote lecture from Professor Bob Horvitz, winner of the 2002 Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Sydney Brenner and John Sulston, “for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death”.

This Symposium is a very special event as it served as the inaugural conference to launch the Champalimaud Biology of Systems and Metastasis Research Program. This new research program, together with the neuroscience program, aims at establishing the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown as a premier biomedical research effort. After five successful neuroscience symposia, it was a great pleasure to commence this new phase of the Champalimaud Research with what promises to be this exciting and rewarding Symposium. The diverse list of distinguished speakers shown below will reflect the vision for our research.

Programme 2017

LISBON

9-11th Oct.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Bob Horvitz

INVITED SPEAKERS

Maria Blasco

Paul Frenette

Yasuyuki Fujita

Jonathan Kipnis

Pierre Leopold

Eduardo Moreno

Duojia Pan

Linda Partridge

Josef Penninger

Caetano Reis e Sousa

Carlos Ribeiro

Henrique Veiga-Fernandes

Jean-Paul Vincent

CHAIRS

Eduardo Moreno

Henrique Veiga-Fernandes

Carlos Ribeiro

ORGANISERS AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT

Anna Hobbiss, Ana Casaca, Gil Costa, Catarina Ramos

Meet our Speakers

They are focused on modern physiology in development, aging, immunity and cancer, bridging cutting edge biology research with disease oriented research.

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