The Champalimaud Foundation ( pt, Fundação Champalimaud) is a private

biomedical Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine)

research foundation. It was created according to the will of the late entrepreneur

António de Sommer Champalimaud Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular mal ...

, in 2004. The complete name of the foundation honors the mother and father of the founder and is ''Fundação Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr. Carlos Montez Champalimaud''. It is located in

Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...

, Portugal.

Overview

The mission of the Foundation is "to develop programmes of advanced biomedical research and provide clinical care of excellence, with a focus on translating pioneering scientific discoveries into solutions which can improve the quality of life of individuals around the world." The foundation undertakes research in the fields of neuroscience and oncology at the modernistic Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon, opened in 2011. Research into visual impairment is undertaken via an outreach program. The Champalimaud Clinical Center (CCC) is a modern scientific, medical and technological institution providing specialized clinical treatment for oncology. The Center develops advanced programs for research of diseases. The CCC tries to customize the therapies in order to achieve more effectiveness in controlling and treating the diseases. It was designed by Indian architect Charles Correa.

Management

The management of the Foundation consists of Board of Directors, General Council, Scientific Committee, Ethics Committee and Vision Award Jury. The acting President is Leonor Beleza appointed by António Champalimaud in his will.

António Champalimaud Vision Award

The award was established in 2007 to recognise contributions to research into vision. In even numbered years it is awarded for contributions to overall vision research and in odd numbered years for contributions to the alleviation of visual problems, primarily in developing countries.

Recipients

Source
Champalimaud Foundation
*2018: Jean Bennett, Albert Maguire, Robin Ali, James Bainbridge, Samuel Jacobson, William W. Hauswirth and Michael Redmond *2017: Sightsavers and CBM (Christoffel-Blindenmission) *2016:

Christine Holt Christine Elizabeth Holt FRS, FMedSci (born 28 August 1954) is a British developmental neuroscientist. She has been Professor of Developmental Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, since 2003 and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cam ...

(University of Cambridge), Carol Mason (Columbia University), John Flanagan (Harvard Medical School) and

Carla Shatz Carla J. Shatz (born 1947) is an American neurobiologist and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Medicine. She was th ...

(Stanford University) *2015
Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology (KCCO)
Seva Foundation and Seva Canada *2014: Napoleone Ferrara, Joan W. Miller, Evangelos S. Gragoudas,

Patricia D'Amore Patricia Ann D'Amore is a professor at Harvard Medical School, where she is the Charles L. Schepens Professor of Ophthalmology, and Professor of Pathology. Early life and career D'Amore grew up in Everett, Massachusetts and graduated from M ...

, Anthony P. Adamis, George L. King and Lloyd Paul Aiello ''for the development of Anti-Angiogenic Therapy for Retinal Disease''. *2013: Nepal Netra Jyoty Sangh, Eastern Regional Eye Care Programme, Lumbini Eye Institute and Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology *2012: David Williams for the application of adaptive optics (AO) to the eye; and

James Fujimoto James G. Fujimoto is Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a visiting professor of ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. ...

, David Huang,

Carmen A. Puliafito Carmen Anthony Puliafito (born 1951) was an American ophthalmologist and academic administrator. From 2007 until March 2016, he was dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC. In 2017, the ''Los Angeles Times'' revealed that Puliafito had engage ...

Joel S. Schuman Joel S. Schuman, MD, FACS is Professor of Ophthalmology, the Kenneth L. Roper Endowed Chair, Vice Chair for Research Innovation, co-director of the Glaucoma Service at Wills Eye Hospital, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Drexel University Sc ...

& Eric Swanson for the development of optical coherence tomography (OCT) *2011: African Programme for

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Control *2010:

J. Anthony Movshon Joseph Anthony Movshon (born December 10, 1950 in New York City) is an American neuroscientist. He has made contributions to the understanding of the brain mechanisms that represent the form and motion of objects, and the way these mechanisms co ...

and

William Newsome William Thomas Newsome (born June 5, 1952) is a neuroscientist at Stanford University who works to "understand the neuronal processes that mediate visual perception and visually guided behavior." He is a member of the National Academy of Science ...

*2009:

Helen Keller International Helen Keller International combats the causes and consequences of blindness and malnutrition by establishing programs based on evidence and research in vision, health and nutrition. Founded in 1915 by Helen Keller and George A. Kessler, the orga ...

*2008: Jeremy Nathans and King-Wai Yau *2007: Aravind Eye Care System

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