Drawing on the success of two previously held international scientific summits, the George Washington University (GW) Office of International Medicine Programs (IMP) and the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) organized a third summit in December 2017, this time convening GW researchers with colleagues in Madrid to focus on increasing research collaborations between the United States and Spain and developing the global physician-scientist workforce.
The summit was developed by the GW Cancer Center, SMHS researchers, and IMP, alongside Spanish co-sponsors Puerta de Hierro Hospital and Research Institute and the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.
Eduardo M. Sotomayor, MD, director of the GW Cancer Center, director of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the GW Medical Faculty Associates, and professor of medicine at SMHS, said one goal of the summit was to find common areas of biomedical interest between the institutions that could lead to strong collaborations. At the end of the summit, areas that emerged for partnership consideration included liquid biopsies in lung cancer and other solid malignancies, biology and immunotherapy of lymphomas, and skin malignancies.
