This award will fund a three-day symposium in Washington, DC, October 24-26, 2011, bringing together leaders in important fields of mutual interest to Brazil and the United States. These fields include bioenergy, climate change, biodiversity and Amazon studies, plant genomics, urban and area studies, optics and photonics, vaccines and drug discovery, stem cells, and tropical diseases. The event celebrates the 50-year anniversary of the São Paulo Research Foundation (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, FAPESP). Brazil is an emerging actor in science and technology as well as financial, agricultural, and energy markets. In addition to these advances, as a large democracy, Brazil is one the United States? critical partners in the world. A joint scientific meeting is fitting to commemorate FAPESP and, moreover, to solidify the future of the US ? Brazil partnership.
" to bring together leaders in important fields of mutual interest to Brazil and the United States 2) When the grant was renewed and transferred to the current PI (Wondwossen Gebreyes) under the direction of the former PI (Daniel Janies) in 2011, it was agreed to use the remaining funds to develop and strengthen further partnership between Ohio State University and Brazilian partners. Two of the major goals were organizing a training workshop on and international congress in collaboration with partners in Brazil. This grant originally entitled as "A symposium celebrating 50 years of FAPESP and the Scientific Partnership between Brazil and the United States" was funded as part of the 50th anniversary of FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) by organizing a three-day symposium to bring together leaders in important fields of mutual interest to Brazil and the United States. The original PI, Dr. Daniel Janies and his collaborators from the U.S. including the current PI (Wondwossen Gebreyes) successfully organized a three-day workshop in which 25 speakers both from Brazil and the US came together in Washington DC from October 23-26, 2011. The FAPESP anniversary was completed successfully and the feedbacks we received were very positive and encouraging. When the grant was renewed and transferred to the current PI (Wondwossen Gebreyes) under the direction of the former PI (Daniel Janies)l in 2011, it was agreed to use the remaining funds to develop and strengthen further partnership between Ohio State University and Brazilian partners. Two of the major activities accomplished successfully using part of the funds from this grant included organizing a pre-congress international workshop " Molecular epidemiology and applications in foodborne, nosocomial and vector-borne infectious diseases of global significance" at in Porto De Galinhas, Brazil, August 11 to 14, 2013. A total of 55 participants from …number of countries attended the training workshop. In addition, in collaboration with Brazilian and other partners we have in the US, Africa and Asia Pacific, we organized a an international congress "2nd International Congress on Pathogens at the Human-Animal Interface (ICOPHAI): One Health for Sustainable Development" in which 275 attendees from more than 40 countries participated. Through the NSF and other co-sponsorship grants, we were able to sponsor 106 participants from various countries and a through partial funding from this grant, we are able to sponsor selected participants from Brazil and the US. Detailed information available on the website at (www.icophai2013.org).
