A network of more than 3,000 physicians and biomedical scientists of Greek or Cypriot descent in the USA, UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Belgium, Italy, Ireland, Austria, Finland, Spain, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Czech Republic, Norway, Singapore, Japan, Albania, Azerbaijan, China, Denmark, Egypt, Hungary, Kuwait, Jordan, Malta, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Slovenia, Turkey, Russia and Luxembourg

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News
- Open Discussion: Brain Drain in Greece - "How to transform a problem to a solution",
12 May 2017, Hellenic Pasteur Institute
- 6th WHBA Summer School (13-21 May, 2017)
- 14th World Hellenic Biomedical Congress (Athens, May 21, 2017)
- 2nd International Congress of Controlled Release Society - Greek Local Chapter​
- Presentation on Graduate Studies in Germany
- Presentation on "Medical training in the USA"
- New WHBA Executive Board (2014-2018)
- 1st WHBA post-graduate symposium in Clinical & Translational Medicine (Feb 22-24, 2013)
- 10th World Hellenic Biomedical Congress, Cyprus Nov 2012
- The WHBA in the Euroscience Open Forum 

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News of the WHBA societies

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Announcements

- University of Athens bestows Honorary Doctorate Distinction on John P. Ioannides
- 4th BTCure Workshop on Animal Models of Disease; 18-20 September 2016, ATHENS. 
- EMBO Workshop on Nuclear Function and Cell Fate Choice, 18-22 Sep, 2016
- pHealth 2016 | 13th International Conference on Wearable, Micro & Nano Technologies for Personalized Health, 29-31 May 2016, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- Awards for two past-presidents of the WHBA
- EuroCMR_ level 1, endorsed by EACVI (course director Sophie Mavrogeni)
- Dale E. Wurster Research Award in Pharmaceutics to Prof. Panos Macheras (University of Athens, Greece)
- Catalogue of the most influential Greek scientists (from the book of Dr. John Ioannidis, University of Ioannina & Stanford University, USA; "Παραλλαγές Πάνω στην Τέχνη της Φυγής και Ένα Απονενοημένο Ριτσερκάρ - Εκδόσεις Κέδρος")
- Research funding opportunities in Europe (FP7 and Horizon 2014-2020 - Liaison Office Administration, Research Committee, University of Ioannina)
- Databases of Greek physicians and scientists abroad
-  2012 World university rankings

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Research training

- Graduate studies in Sweden & The Netherlands
- Graduate studies in Switzerland
- Graduate studies in the UK
- Graduate studies in Germany
- Graduate studies in the USA 
- College and graduate students research exchange program in the USA
- Research opportunities in the UK
- Education and training in European and US biotech companies (Fondation Santé)

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Medical training

- Medical specialization in the USA
- Medical training in the UK for Greek nationals 
- Medical specialization in Germany
- Medical education and specialization in France 
- Medical training in Australia
- Medical specialization in Psychiatry in Switzerland
- Medical student exchange program between Boston Univ. and the Univ. of Crete
- "The Residency Database" - Information about medical residency in more than 40 countries

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THe WHBA is a network of over 2,000 clinicians and biomedical scientists of Greek descent in more than 30 countries in the world

Support the mission of the World Hellenic Biomedical Association to expand the  network and enhance the scientific profile of Hellenes physicians and bioscientists abroad

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APPLICATIONS
(June 15 - September 15, 2017)

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 ​Υπογράψτε
​τη Διακήρυξη του Παστέρ

​Sign the
​Declaration of Pasteur

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Διαφυγή Πνευματικού Δυναμικού της Ελλάδας. Πώς ένα πρόβλημα μπορεί να γίνει αξιοποιήσιμο;

Brain Drain in Greece:
How we can transform a problem to a solution.

Watch the Discussion
​Via the ERT website

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Geographical distribution of WHBA members

Positions

- Post-Doctoral position (Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA)
- Postdoctoral Scientist/Fellow (Northwestern University, ​Chicago, IL, USA)
- Stavros Niarchos Foundation - FORTH Fellowship for Ph.D candidates (Heraklion or Ioannina, Greece)
- Post-Doctoral Researchers (IMBB-FORTH, Heraklion or Ioannina, Greece)
- Post-Doctoral Fellow position (Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA)
- Position of an Assistant Professor at the Pharmaceutical Dept of University of Patras, Greece (Human Physiology)
- Research positions available at BSRC Alexander Fleming in Athens, Greece
- Post-Doctoral Research Scientist Position (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)
- MIT Computational Biology Group, Positions available