The pursuit of academic and scientific excellence is one of the core principles of the philosophy of the Postgraduate Program in Immunology and Inflammation (PPG-II). In this sense, we understand that this excellence is inevitably linked to internationalization. Scientific collaborations, strengthening ties with major research institutes around the world, participation in and organization of international scientific events, offering courses
and disciplines that are taught entirely in English, as well as student exchanges certainly raise the methodological level and verticalize scientific questions, as does the entire production of PPG-II.

Highlights:

1) Participation of PPG-II in several notices that allow student mobility to large research centers such as the “sandwich” exchange scholarships PDSE-CAPES, Fulbright, CAPES/PRINT and others.

PPG-II PhD students participating in PDSE/CAPES, CAPES/PRINT, Fulbright among others.

– Mariela Pires Cabral Piccin – Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris VI (France) – 2015 (PDSE-CAPES)

– Carolina Gonçalves de Oliveira Lucas – Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Zurich (Switzerland) – 2015

– Isabela Silva de Castro – National Institutes of Health (NIH – USA) – 2015 (PDSE-CAPES)

– Luiz Ricardo da Costa Vasconcellos – Hôpital Necker – Enfants Malades (France) – 2015 to 2016 (PDSE-CAPES)

– Sabrina Pires Maciel – Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (USA) –2016 to 2017 (PDSE-CAPES)

– Rhana Berto da Silva Prata – National Institutes of Health (NIH – USA) – 2017 (PDSE-CAPES)

– Morena Scopel de Amorim Mendonça – University of Connecticut – Health Center (USA) – 2017 (PDSE-CAPES)

– Jamil Zola Kitoko – New York University – School of Medicine (USA) – 2018 to 2019 (PDSE-CAPES)

– Rômulo Leão Silva Neris – University of California Davis (USA) – 2020 (Fulbright)

– Kamila Guimarães Pinto – National Institutes of Health (NIH – USA) – 2019 to 2020 (CAPES/PRINT)

– Luan Firmino Cruz – Université de Lausanne (Switzerland) – 2019 to 2020 (CAPES/PRINT)

– Yasmin Mucuna Mustafá – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (USA) – 2021 (CAPES/PRINT)

– Guilherme Afonso Melo – Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (USA) – 2021

– Victoria Cortes Bastos – Yale University (USA) – 2022 to 2023 (CAPES/PRINT)

– Marina da Silva Ferreira – University of Texas (USA) – 2023 to 2024 (CAPES/PRINT)

– Gustavo Meira Chaves de Assis Pereira – Rockefeller University (USA) – 2023 to 2024 (CAPES/PRINT)

– Hector Franco Barbosa Rhault Loponte – University of Groningen (The Netherlands) – 2023 to 2024 (CAPES/PRINT)

– Philippe Caloba Oliveira de Mattos Cruz – Universitatsspital Basel (Switzerland) – 2024 to 2025 (PDSE-CAPES)

2) Joint Supervision Agreement between PPG-II and the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands) for Double Doctorate of student Hector Franco Barbosa Rhault Loponte.