Visiting Professor
September - November 2019
Walter Ricciardi, past President of the Italian NIH, Director of the Department of Women's and Children's Health and Public Health at the Catholic University and Hospital Gemelli in Rome will be a Visiting Scholar at Jefferson.
European Research & Innovation Days
Brussels, Belgium | 2019 September 24-26
Join this policy conference that serves as a Innovation Hub. This event is about bringing stakeholders together to find opportunities that help shape the future of European research.
NEWS: Jefferson & Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Awarded Erasmus+ Grant
2019 July
Thomas Jefferson University and Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome were awarded an Erasmus KA107 grant supporting student and staff mobility in the areas of Precision Medicine and Vascular Medicine.
Erasmus+ is a European Union program supporting education, training, youth, and sport across Europe. The Key Action 107 (KA107) grant was created to encourage and support transportation between partner countries. Students, faculty and staff will travel from Italy to the United States and vice versa as part of the program.
“Everything is changing on our planet and most of the activities are becoming global,” said IgnazioR. Marino, MD, ScD, professor of surgery at SKMC, senior vice president at Jefferson, and executive director for the Jefferson Italy Center. “Scientific knowledge does not have borders, but borders should also disappear for physicians. A young doctor educated on both sides of the Atlantic will have many more tools to accept and win the challenges of our time. However, at the present time, even the most celebrated thoracic surgeon of Europe cannot touch a patient in the U.S., and vice versa. Exchange programs like the ones supported by the Erasmus+ grant that we just won can help create new education models and break borders. This is what Jefferson and Catholic University are doing together.”