Dear Colleagues,

The 2017 Champalimaud Research Symposium, with the theme “Physiology: From Development to Disease” will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, 9–11 October, 2017. The Symposium will be a single-track scientific meeting with 14 invited speakers.  It will focus on modern physiology in development, aging, immunity and cancer, bridging cutting edge biology research with disease oriented research, and will feature 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 will serve 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 is 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 will reflect the vision for our research.

The symposium will be held at our centre on the stunning waterfront in Lisbon, and will also feature a social program that will give participants the chance to explore this beautiful and historic city. We expect that the unique venue, together with the exciting list of invited speakers, will foster a lively and stimulating scientific meeting.

For all details please see https://symposium.research.fchampalimaud.org/, where the full list of presenters is available.

Participants of the conference are cordially invited to contribute original research papers or reviews to this Special Issue of Cells. All the papers will be peer-reviewed according to the standard procedure of Cells. Five feature papers fully free of charge, and for other papers 20% discount from the standard Article Processing Charge (APC) are provided.

Dr. Eduardo Moreno
Guest Editor

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