The undergraduated and postgraduated students of the Universitat de valencia's Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry will be able to make mobilities in the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center thanks to the agrrement of educational and reseaching colaboration that is signed this Tuesday by both institutions. The agreement implies the development of projects of combined research and other activities according to the plans aproved annualy. The first activity planned for this celebration is a scientific symposium in the University of Valencia.
The Vice-Principal for the International Relations, Olga Gil, and the Faculty's dean, Federico Pallardó, will chair the signing of the agreement together with the vice-dean for the Strategic Development and professor of Internal Medicine from the UT Southwestern Medical School, Dwain L. Thiele. The event, which will take place at 17h at the Faculty's "Salón de Grados", will count on the participation of member of both delegations of Dallas and Valencia, the first one is led by the mayor, Mike Rawlings, and the second one is led by the deputy mayor Alfonso Grau, since this colaboration agreement is framed in the twinning of Valencia with the texan city.
The UT Southwestern Medical Center of Dallas is an American university leader in the investigation with biomedical science in a worlwide level and, among their teaching staff there are five Nobel winners. Federico Pallardó claims that this colaboration is "very positive for the students and researchers of the University of Valencia, because it implies a very rewarded exchange because of the scientific and educational high level of the Dallas' centre, as well as the international sight of medicine that this agreement provides.
MAGNETIC RESONANCE AND CANCER
Regarding the lines of researching, Pallardó points out that it is still soon to announce them, even so, "the priority subjects for the University of Valencia as well as for the UTSW will be, in first place, the magnetic resonance and the research connected to cancer"
Por su parte, la vicerrectora de Relaciones Internacionales y Cooperación, Olga Gil, apunta que el acuerdo con el UT Southwestern Medical Center se encuentra dentro de los compromisos de internacionalización de la Universitat de València y de acuerdo con el objetivo estratégico de diversificar los tradicionales ámbitos de intercambio de nuestros estudiantes que hasta ahora son mayoritariamente el europeo y el iberoamericano.
On her behalf, the Vice-Principal of International Relations, Olga Gil, indicates that the agreement with the UT Southwestern Medical Center is framed in the agreements of the University of Valencia's internationalization and it's in accordance with the strategic aim of diversifying the traditional fields of exchanging of our students who are mainly European and Latin Americans.
Last update: 23 de july de 2013 08:12.
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