Chemical and Engineering News: Program Provides Opportunities for Established Scientists to Do Research in Developing Countries

An idea for international scientific collaboration, called the Global Science Corps (GSC), has been put forward by Harold E. Varmus, president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He envisions a program of fellowships that places established scientists from developed countries in universities and research institutions in developing countries. Momentum is building to put his idea — originally put forward in a 2001 speech at the Nobel Foundation in Sweden — into action. GSC is today a program in search of funding that is being managed by the Science Initiative Group, an independent organization concerned with scientific capacity building in the developing world. Full article here.