Date: 12/16/2008
TUMSPR News: The President of US National Academies’ Institute of Medicine, Dr. Harvey Fineberg, President of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. John Mendelsohn, Dr. Glenn Schweitzer, director of the Office for Central Europe and Eurasia of National Research Council, met with TUMS’ chancellor, Dr. Bagher Larijani, to deepen and boost scientific collaborations and establish a sister cancer institute in the region, on December 3rd, 2008.
President of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. John Mendelsohn, The President of US National Academies’ Institute of Medicine, Dr. Harvey Fineberg, President of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. John Mendelsohn, Dr. Glenn Schweitzer director of the Office for Central Europe and Eurasia of National Research Council, Dr. Marry Wilson, professor of infections diseases from Harvard School of Medicine, Mrs. Mendelsohn, producer of scientific documentaries and other members of the delegation met Dr. Larijani, the chancellor for Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) to evaluate ways of bilateral scientific collaboration and to establish a cancer sister institute in the region on December 3 and 4, 2008.
Dr. Larijani, TUMS’ chancellor, briefing the guests on TUMS history, research centers, educational programs, health system hierarchy and University's international branch, pointed out the high position the university had achieved globally for the number of bone marrow transplants, more than 2000, it had performed.
In response to the question put forward by Dr. Finegerg to whether collaborations had been limited to only holding workshops or not, the chancellor mentioned the university's diverse scientific cooperations with UNESCO, ISESCO, UNICEF, South African Universities, the French Universities of Lyon and Claude Bernard, Graz University in Austria, George Washington University,University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, Universities of Ottawa and Alberta in Canada, UCLA and Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, France and the exchange students program for Emergency Room specialty and the NIH Grant for TUMS GI cancer research center.
In response, Dr. Fineberg called that volume of cooperation as well-established and already in place that just had to be deepened and boosted.
On cases of scientific articles rejection by some US journals, Dr. Fineberg believed the added value the papers could have benefited upon editing might have been the cause and Dr. Schweitzer believed that the ban was something from the past which had been lifted three years ago upon strong demonstration by the scientific community in the USA and asked any new cases to be reported to be investigated and treated accordingly.
Later on, Dr. Mendelsohn, in his presentation, introduced the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, its first rank among American universities, the services it offered to more than 9000 patients annually, the 12000 patients presently participating in clinical trials, the high number of trainees and staff and the half-a-billion-dollar budget the center received for its research activities for discovering new medications for cancer patients, discovering cancer genes and relevant drugs to stop the disease and finally the center’s sister institutes distributed in different geographical areas of the world and the wish to create one in the Middle East by the cooperation of TUMS.
The delegation visited TUMS Cancer Institute and the Museum of the History of Medicine on December 3, 2008. On the next day, Dr. Mendelsohn visited TUMS Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center (EMRC) and closely witnessed the achievements by the center in talks to the chancellor who runs the research center too and later on he paid a visit to Hematology and Oncology Research Center and Tehran Heart Center.
The last meeting was arranged with NGOs active in helping cancer patients and trying to build a huge cancer center in Tehran in the afternoon, on December 4th, 2008. Dr. Mendelsohn met the heads of the NGOs and the building's plan, its facilities, and the prospects of the hospital were the center of discussion.
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