Champalimaud Foundation - Lisboa, Portugal[
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Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown is a research institute based in Lisbon focused in biomedical science particularly in the fields of cancer research and neuroscience.
It was named after the parents of António Champalimaud, the benefactor.
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Location: Lisboa, Portugal
Date Posted: 12/06/2011
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THE STRUCTURE:The Champalimaud Foundation:The Champalimaud Foundation (
visit link) is based in Lisbon, Portugal and was created at the bequest of the late Portuguese industrialist and entrepreneur, António de Sommer Champalimaud. As stipulated by António Champalimaud prior to his death, Leonor Beleza, former Portuguese Minister of Health, is the Foundation’s President.
The foundation Investigation Centre features diagnostic and treatment units for cancer patients on the lower floors and research labs above, aimed at research on cancer and neuroscience. It supports individual researchers and research teams working at the cutting edge of biomedical science. It aims to stimulate novel theoretical and practical methodologies by utilising the experience of both research scientists and medical practitioners.
The impact of progressive research – basic, applied and clinical - is typically far-reaching, affecting how illnesses and diseases are diagnosed and treated throughout the world. The Champalimaud Foundation aims to maximise the work being done in the fields of cancer research and neuroscience. Another primary objective is to make advances in the field of international vision research. As a result of this, the Foundation intends to make a significant contribution to the fight against vision-related illness and disease.
As it is a private organization, the scope for the research initiatives and funding programmes of the Champalimaud Foundation is unrestrained by national borders. If a particular country is in a better position – governmentally, clinically and/or institutionally – to accommodate a certain type of biomedical research, the Foundation has the flexibility and freedom to respond quickly and to lend its support.
The Champalimaud Foundation has a long-term commitment to supporting biomedical science.
The Foundation and it´s facilities are officially named Anna de Sommer Champalimaud and Dr. Carlos Montez Champalimaud Foundation, in honour of the benefactor’s parents.
THE PERSON:António de Sommer Champalimaud Anna de Sommer Champalimaud and Dr. Carlos Montez Champalimaud (a Construction and Cement Industrial) were the parents of António de Sommer Champalimaud (Lisbon, Lapa, 19 March 1918 – Lisbon, Lapa, 8 May 2004) a Portuguese banker and industrialist who in 2004 was the wealthiest man in Portugal. He earned his fortune with insurance, banking and cement industries which were nationalized after the Carnation Revolution of 1974. After living in exile in Brazil for seven years, he returned to Portugal and rebuilt his companies.
In the last years of his life he became interested in Medical Investigation, particularly in the fiels of Vision, Neuroscience and Cancer and in his will he left the amount of 500 million Euros to the creation of a Foundation.
He also created the António Champalimaud Vision Award, an annual award of € 1.0 million, the biggest in this area.