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The Department counts, among its professors, prominent personalities in the international and national panorama, with authoritative positions in National Scientific Societies (of General Surgery, Microsurgery, Plastic Surgery, Medical Oncology, Orthopedics and Traumatology, Pathology and Oral Medicine, Urology), and in National, European and American Research Institutes (ISS Superior Institute of Health, Rome; University of Rome "Tor Vergata"; European Oncological Institute, Milan; Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome; Regina Elena Institute, Rome; Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, France; Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands; MERCK Research Laboratories, NY, USA; Imperial College, London; Apogenix GmbH, Heidelberg Germany; Roche Penzeberg, Germany; TriStar Technology Group Washington DC, USA; CNR of Pisa; Temple University's College of Science and Technology, Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine and Center of Biotechnology, Philadelphia, USA; VU University Medical Center, Department of MedicalOncology, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Phase I - EarlyClinical Trials Unit, OncologyDepartment, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium; Center de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille (CRCM), INSERM U1068, CNRS UMR 7258, Aix-Marseille Université and Institut Paoli-Calmettes; ParcScientifique et Technologique de Luminy, Marseille, France; Zurich University Hospital; New York University and Langone Medical Center; Department of Vascular Surgery, St. Franziskus-Hospital Munster, Division of Vascular Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center; University of Malta, of Valencia, of Munich.

The Department has entered into agreements for the circulation and exchange of human resources (staff and students) in order to stimulate technology transfer and scientific collaboration with foreign organizations and universities. In particular, collaboration agreements are currently active for doctorates with:

University/organization	Paese	Data di inizio	Durata
Department of Oncology at Antwerp University Hospital	Belgio	08/03/2018	3 anni
Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven	Belgio	11/03/2020	3 anni
Faculty of Dental Surgery of the University of Malta	Malta	26/03/2018	3 anni
Institute for bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)	Spagna	16/01/2020	3 anni
Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Temple University	USA	08/03/2018	3 anni

In addition, agreements have been activated aimed at the Erasmus program, which allow students of the CdLM in Dentistry and Dental Prosthetics and the Degree in Dental Hygiene to carry out long periods of study at the University of Malta for a.y. 2019-20:

• enrolled in the CLMOPD: 5 months - n. 2 outgoing students and 2 incoming Maltese students;
• enrolled in the CL in Dental Hygiene: 5 months - n. 2 outgoing students and 2 incoming Maltese students.

Starting from the XXX cycle, the Research Doctorate reserves scholarships for foreign students, regularly covered (1 from Spain, 1 from Iran).

Internationalization activities have been extensively developed within the International Doctorate Course in Experimental Oncology and Surgery starting from 2013 (e.g. the XXIX cycle presents at the end of the course 2 thesis in co-tutorship and issue of double degree with the University of Antwerpen and n.3 Doctor Europaeus) and these actions are progressively more and more intense, with the natural prospect of collaborations also of a scientific nature between research groups not only of the Department in question, but also - thanks to the PhD Course - of other UNIPA Departments with Belgium.

Internationalization activities were also started within the CLMOPD (starting from 2014 a contact person (Dr. Olga Di Fede) was appointed for the Erasmus + Program, finalizing the approval of 2 agreement with University of Valencia and of Munich).

 

In progress, new agreements with the University of Malta, Temple and Antwerp starting from the academic year 2017-18:

Agreement with Malta

Agreements with Temple

 

Finally, again in the context of CLMOPD, visiting students incoming (2 in traineeship), visiting students outcoming (4, of which 2 in traineeship) were carried out in 2016, with achievement for our n. 2 students of 46 credits (23 each).

 

Scientific collaborations of the professors of the Department with other institutes:

• Department of Oral Medicine - Carolinas Medical Center- US (Olga Di Fede)
• University College London and University College London Hospitals Trust, Eastman Dental Institute and Hospital, London - UK (Olga Di Fede)