OIA Scientist Exchange Programs
In addition to training in National Cancer Institute (NCI) intramural laboratories, supported under the NIH Visiting program, the NCI Office of International Affairs (OIA) also partially supports training of scientists from low, middle, and upper-middle income countries in U.S. extramural laboratories and in overseas laboratories located in higher income countries. In FY2007, OIA sponsored overseas scientists from Argentina, Belarus, Brazil, Chile, China, France, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine to be trained in cancer institutes, hospitals, and universities located across the United States. Also in FY2007, OIA sponsored trainees from the Ukraine and Turkey to be trained in laboratories located in Poland and the United Kingdom.Each year, individuals from a number of foreign countries participate in the Cancer Prevention and Control Academic Course, offered by the Division of Cancer Prevention. In the period 2003 to 2007, sponsored participants came from Albania, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Georgia, Ghana, Haiti, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Lithuania, Malawi, Malaysia, Morrocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, Russia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, Vietnam, Ukraine, and Zambia.
