- The Team
The best team for a unique project
The scientific issues related to biomedical research require an interdisciplinary approach and that is why the Champalimaud Foundation gathers prestigious and internationally renowned professionals from different areas of expertise and specialisation.
Board
of Directors
Board
of Directors
Leonor Beleza
President
João Silveira Botelho
Vice President
António Horta Osório
Non-Executive Director
Meet the directors of the Champalimaud Foundation
The President of the Board of Directors is Leonor Beleza, who was appointed by António Champalimaud in his will. She is joined by João Silveira Botelho and António Horta Osório.
General
Council
Meet the General Council
The members of the General Council are responsible for determining the guidelines of the ongoing development of the Foundation, and come from different cultural and professional backgrounds. All are highly considered in their respective areas and all are committed to improving people’s well-being. The President of the General Council is Daniel Proença de Carvalho, and in late 2019, The Queen Sofia of Spain joined as an Honorary member.
General
Council
Daniel Proença de Carvalho
President
Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
António Coutinho
António Damásio
Pedro D'Abreu Loureiro
Manuela Ferreira Leite
Paulo Portas
Manuel Alegre
Rainha Sofia de Espanha
Ethics
Committee
Ethics
Committee
José Manuel Cardoso da Costa
President
Adelino Cardoso
André Valente
António Jacinto
António Parreira
Isabel Palmeirim
Isabel Pavão Martins
José Cunha-Vaz
Leonor Parreira
Mário Miguel Rosa
Paula Martinho da Silva
Meet the Ethics Committee
The main mission of the Champalimaud Foundation’s Ethics Committee is to ensure the observance of the highest ethical standards in the practice of its scientific activities , analysing every ethical issue inherent to medical practice.
Vision Award
Jury
Meet the Vision Award Jury
The jury of the Vision Award comprises a panel of prestigious international personalities and prominent public figures whose lives have been devoted to solving the problems of developing countries.
Vision Award
Jury
Alfred Sommer
President
Amartya Sen
Carla Shatz
Gullapalli N. Rao
Graça Machel
Jacques Delors
José Cunha-Vaz
Joshua Sanes
Mark Bear
Paul Sieving
Susumu Tonegawa
Scientific
Advisory Board
Scientific
Advisory Board
Rui Costa, PhD
Coordinator
Fiona Watt, PhD
Evaluation Coordinator
Alan Ashworth, PhD
Caetano Reis e Sousa, PhD
Carla Shatz, PhD
Catherine Dulac, PhD
Eero Simoncelli, PhD
Fiona Powrie, PhD
J. Anthony Movshon, PhD
Larry Norton, MD, PhD
Ton Schumacher, PhD
Yasmine Belkaid, PhD
Meet the Scientific Advisory Board
The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) is composed of internationally recognised scientists and advises the leadership of the Foundation on the direction of scientific pursuit, the quality and impact of the research programmes and investigators.
Director
of the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Zvi Fuks
Zvi Fuks studied at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem (1962). After fulfilling academic functions at Stanford University in California, he was appointed professor and president of the department of radiation and medical oncology at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem (1976-1984). Later, he became president of the department of radiation oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York (1984-1998 and 2004-2005), as well as its Deputy Physician-in-Chief for Planning (1998-2004). Currently, Dr. Fuks is the Director of the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown.
