Dear students,

The Department of International Relations of the Faculty of Medicine invites all undergraduate students of all levels to participate in the 3rd Informative Talk on International Student Mobility.

This will take place on Wednesday, August 3 at 4:00 p.m. via Google Meet.
Do you want to participate? Sign up using the registration button below.

For more information or to contact the International Relations Department, please write to the following email rrii.med@uchile.cl.

Very truly yours.
International Relations Department.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile.

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Call for Applications for the Academic year 2024/25, is out now.

Currently, HIAS accepts fellowship applications for the academic year 2024/2025 or later.

Application may be submitted until 31 October 2022 via application@hias-hamburg.de

Join us for the 3rd annual Bringing Chemistry to Medicine symposium, a virtual event featuring talks by leading experts from around the globe working at the interface of chemical and biomedical sciences. Speakers represent expertise across a spectrum of research areas, including therapeutic regulation of transcription and chromatin, computational biology, and chemical biology. The event will span two days with focused themes:

Thursday, July 21: Transcription Therapy
Friday, July 22: Frontiers in Chemical Biology

This Program makes international education accessible by allowing students to take academic courses and participate in co-curricular programs without the need to leave home. It opens up international education opportunities for all students of APRU member universities by providing an immersive virtual student exchange experience through digital technologies and platforms and creating encounters with new ideas, cultures, experts and students from around the world. Registrations are free of charge.

Are you a student who has conducted or is conducting (bio) medical research?
And do you want to take it a step further by presenting your research? Then ISCOMS is looking for you!
Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to present your abstract in front of a broad international audience.

The abstract submission for ISCOMS 2021 is open until the 31st of January 2021!

PRESENT YOUR RESEARCH AT ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING STUDENT CONGRESSES IN (BIO)MEDICAL SCIENCES.
The International Student Congress Of (bio)Medical Sciences, also known as ISCOMS, is a non-profit organisation made up of students that aims to promote student research and the international exchange of it.

Academic Excellence and Social Impact

Again, in 2019, the University of Chile was highlighted as the No. 1 University in Chile and one of the most important in Latin America, for the most prestigious measurements at the international level, which measure aspects such as the quality of research , the impact of work on its graduates and also of the academic work of the University.

Office of International Affairs.

We are very pleased to announce that UTokyo will continue to provide hands-on laboratory experience to undergraduate students through the Amgen Scholars Program in 2020 as one of the host universities of Amgen Scholars Asia Program (https://amgenscholars.com/asia-program ).

The objective of the program is to provide undergraduate students from different countries, including Japan, who are committed to or who are considering a career in biology or related sciences and planning to continue to graduate studies, with eight weeks (from June 9 to August 8, 2020, including Amgen Scholars Asia Symposium) of biomedical research experience in the basic and translational sciences. Opportunities for the students to gain valuable hands-on experience in research will be provided by 15 research laboratories in six of the graduate schools and research institutes of UTokyo (Graduate School of Medicine, Graduate School of Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Institute of Industrial Science).

Additionally, there will be opportunities for the students to take part in events, such as Japanese cultural events, exchange events with UTokyo students, etc., organized to maximize their experience as Amgen Scholars at UTokyo.

Each Amgen Scholars will receive a stipend to cover their return travel and living expenses, in addition to paid accommodation, during the program.

UTokyo Amgen Scholars Program applicants must be undergraduate students who are:
- Enrolled in colleges or universities worldwide that award a bachelor’s degree (or its equivalent); and
- At the minimum, have completed their first year of undergraduate study at the time the summer program begins, and
- Not graduating before the summer program begins, and will resume their undergraduate studies for at least 1 semester or 1 quarter after the end of the summer program.

UTokyo Amgen Scholars Program applicants must also:
- Have a strong record of academic performance, and
- Have good working knowledge of English, demonstrated by a minimum TOEFL (iBT) score of 72, IELTS overall band score of 5.5, Cambridge English FCE, TOEIC L&R score of 785, or TOEIC S&W score of 310, if not a native English speaker or English is not their first language, and
- Have an interest in pursuing a Ph.D.

Application for the program is now open online and will close at 3:00 PM on February 3, 2020 (Japan Standard Time).

To learn more about the UTokyo Amgen Scholars Program, please click the button below

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by e-mail at amgenscholars.adm@gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp

EURAXESS Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) links researchers in Brazil and other LAC countries with Europe. Free information and events on research funding, research careers and collaboration opportunities.

EURAXESS Brazil, now EURAXESS Latin America and the Caribbean, has been serving researchers in all fields interested in collaborating with and/or pursuing a research career in Europe since 2013.

University of Groningen and Universidad de Chile’s Matchmaking Event is a three-day academic seminar that will gather and researchers from both institutions, thus creating a space where the topics of Data Science & Mathematics, Evolutionary Biology, Infection & Immunity, Neurosciences, Oncology, and Public Health will be presented and discussed.

This event aims to bring together some of the best researchers in Chile and Groningen. It has the specific purpose to identify joint research projects.

1. Invitation for Future Leaders to Science, Policy and Innovation Summit and Action Programme at the University of Cambridge    https://www.shapinghorizons.org

Are you a young leader from Latin America or the UK hoping to use science, policy and innovation to drive change? We are now selecting the most promising future leaders to become Future Leaders and attend Shaping Horizons taking place at the University of Cambridge.
 
Shaping Horizons will gather 150 young leaders from across the UK and Latin America to engage with senior world leaders and discuss common challenges faced by both regions. Some of our featured speakers are: Dr. Robert Muggah (Research Director, Igarape Institute), Prof. Renato Ribeiro (former Minister of Education, Brazil), H.E.R. Carlos Sersale Di Cerisano (Argentine Ambassador in the UK), Sen. Gustavo Petro (former Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia).
 
Future Leaders will also help to create evidence-based policy reports for governments on issues covered during the summit. Furthermore, Future Leaders sharing similar interests will work in groups in order to design and pitch a project related to a particular theme of the summit, feasible enough to be implemented by the Future Leaders in both regions, under mentorship of Cambridge academics and Shaping Horizons partners. Finally, Future Leaders will become part of a bilateral network of leaders tackling some of the most pressing problems faced by the UK and Latin America.
 
Applications will run between March 31st and April 14th. Please see link below to start your application! https://www.shapinghorizons.org/apply
 
2. “Horizon 2100 - International Youth Online Competition of Scientific and Creative Works” invites you to apply  http://www.futurible.space/

3. Vancouver Summer Program de Britsh Columbia University:   https://vancouversummerprogram.ubc.ca/faculty-medicine

4. Abel Tasman Summer of Research 2019:  ISCOMS, Research Internship & Summer Schools de   UMCG:  https://www.groningenbiomed.com/practical/abel-tasman-talent-programme

Undergraduate students from different countries will study at the Faculty of Medicine this first semester. Some of them come for short stays, research internships, and /or medical rotations.

The Faculties of Medicine, Physics and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile, and the Hannover Medical School, Germany (MHH), represented by Prof. Dr. Thomas Lenarz, ENT, Clinical Director representing the Board of Directors of the University of Hannover, signed a Letter of Intent for international collaboration that aims to strengthen academic cooperation. The Letter of Intent includes
a) Visits by the members of each institution, for different periods of time, in accordance with a program to be jointly developed by the three Faculties on topics of common interest.
b) Participation of scientists from faculties and experts from both institutions, in joint activities such as advisory work, courses, seminars, research projects and other collaboration.
c) Use of facilities by graduate students from each institution to conduct research, short stays, and academic collaborations.
Hannover Medical School is among the highest performing universities in Germany. Its achievements in research and teaching in medicine have given the School a leading position among German university clinics. The outstanding research achievements as the only university in Germany with an exclusively medical focus were highlighted by its participation in initiatives of federal and state excellence, where the Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH) was classified as "the most successful university in northern Germany" and "The best university" Clinic at the national level. "It is of a great prestige for the Faculty of Medicine to be associated with such a prestigious institution.”

November 19/20/21 - Delegation of Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile travel to the University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia to participate in the IX Seminar in Basic Biomedical Sciences. Six researchers and academics from the Doctoral Program in Biomedical Sciences and a representative from the Office of International Affairs of the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile traveled to Colombia to participate in the IX Biomedical Sciences Seminar on November 19 and 20, 2018 at the Headquarters of University Research (SIU), University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia. The visit was sponsored by the Faculty of Medicine and the Basic Biomedical Sciences Academic Corporation, University of Antioquia. The participation of the Chilean delegation in the seminar is part of the various joint international activities between both Institutions. Additionally, members of the delegation met with authorities from the University of Antioquia’s Faculty of Medicine with the aim to advance in the development of an agreement that strengthens both universities as part of the University’s South-South internationalization strategy.

Dr. Suarez-Balcazar is professor and head of the Department of Occupational Therapy. She received her PhD from the University of Kansas in Child and Developmental Psychology, with a concentration in Community Psychology. She holds an affiliate appointment in the Department of Psychology at UIC. Her research interest and expertise covers several interrelated areas: development, implementation, and evaluation of community-based healthy lifestyles interventions for youth and young adults with disabilities and their families; the study of cultural competency and its role in addressing health disparities; and the study of community capacity building for evaluation. Her research is conducted within a community-based participatory research approach and empowerment framework. She is currently directing a community engagement research project supported by The Chicago Community Trust in which she is examining the impact of a culturally tailored health promotion community intervention. This work is being conducted in partnership with El Valor. She was elected President-elect of the Society for Community Research and Action (APA, Division 27). Her visit at the Department of Occupational Therapy of our Faculty is part of the internationalization process seeking international collaboration at the graduate level with the University of Illinois.

On Tuesday, September 25, 2018, the Office of International Affairs of the Faculty of Medicine hosted Dr. Juan Iovanna, director of the Department of Translational Medicine and Head of the Center for Cancer Research (CRCM) and faculty member at the Aix Marseille Universite, France. Dr. Iovanna is an expert on pancreatic diseases with emphasis on both experimental and clinical studies from which interesting results have been obtained by analyzing the sample taken from human pancreatic cancer and its sensitivity (or resistance) to the different chemotherapy agents. Dr. Iovanna met with a group of academics and researchers from the Faculty of Medicine to explore international collaboration.