Daniel Bueno
At the end of last year, a group of 20 Italian scientists who live abroad created a virtual research network against cancer, named Viron (English acronym for Virtual Italian Research in Oncology Network). The idea came from Michele Pagano, an Italian researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a professor of pathology at the University of New York, who for twenty years has made his career in the US. The objective of the initiative is to foster collaboration between Italian scientists who carry out research into oncology outside the land of their birth, bringing together many investigators in the basic areas and specialists in more applied studies. Maps of all the clinical studies on cancer in Italy are already available on a site created especially by the group (www.viron.org). “The Viron network is open to scientists of all nationalities who are interested in research into cancer and in Italy,” comments biologist Mauro Degli Esposti, from the University of Manchester, England, one of the project coordinators. The scientist believes that Brazilian researchers may be interested. “Our website is being put together in English and Italian and it would be marvelous to have members from Brazil too,” says Esposti.
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