# Champalimaud Foundation, Champalimaud Clinical Centre

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## TL;DR

Lisbon's private research foundation and clinic, known for advanced breast cancer guidelines, digestive cancer surgery and cancer-neuroscience research.

## Summary

The Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown opened in 2010 on the Lisbon waterfront as a neuroscience and cancer research institute with an attached clinical centre. Fátima Cardoso directs its breast unit and chairs the international ESO-ESMO Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) consensus guidelines, the digestive unit is a reference for rectal cancer organ preservation and pancreatic surgery, and the radiation oncology department was among the first in Europe to install new-generation stereotactic and MR-guided systems. Research groups study cancer-nervous system interactions, exosome-mediated metastasis (Bruno Costa-Silva), tumour immunology and computational oncology. The foundation also runs the Champalimaud Vision Award and public engagement programmes.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: Fundação Champalimaud; Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
- City: Lisbon, PT
- Type: research-institute
- Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20200904070334/https://fchampalimaud.org/en/

## Sources

- Homepage (archived copy): https://web.archive.org/web/20200904070334/https://fchampalimaud.org/en/

## Connected records

- cancers: [Colorectal cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/), [HER2-positive breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-her2-positive/), [HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/), [Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/pancreatic/)
- fronts: [Radiation Therapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/), [Surgery & Interventional](https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/)
- technologies: [Liquid biopsy (ctDNA)](https://onco.cc/technologies/liquid-biopsy/), [MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/mr-linac/), [Robotic & minimally invasive surgery](https://onco.cc/technologies/robotic-surgery/), [SBRT / SABR (stereotactic radiotherapy)](https://onco.cc/technologies/sbrt/)
- institutions: [European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)](https://onco.cc/institutions/esmo/), [Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil](https://onco.cc/institutions/ipo-lisboa/)
- people: [Leonor Beleza](https://onco.cc/people/leonor-beleza/), [Teresa Cotta-Dias](https://onco.cc/people/teresa-cotta-dias/)
- bottlenecks: [Metastasis is understood least and studied last](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-metastasis-biology/)

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