"Italian-Americans across the United States, please help out!" This is the bare-bones message from Vito M. Campese, who ranks among the most prominent nephrologists in the field and is current President of the Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation (ISSNAF).   Campese, who was also one of the founding members of the foun...

With this event, the Center for Italian Studies and ISSNAF celebrate Italian achievement and contributions to knowledge in the United States and Canada.   Program Location: Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall - 249 S. 36th Street 2pm The Value of Italian Experience for Success in North America Participants: Vincenzo Berghella, Professor - Di...

by Monica Veronesi   I am pleased to announce that Aldo Roccaro (click here for BIO), M.D. PhD Senior scientist at Harvard will be Young ISSNAF's co-coordinator. He will be working closely with Chiara Gabbi, MD, PhD - our Young ISSNAF Coordinator and Member of ISSNAF's Board of Trustees - to grow and manage Young ISSNAF's activities.  ...

The Consulate General of Italy - The Italian Cultural Institute And The Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation   Cordially invite you to meet ITALIAN BEAUTIFUL MINDS Latest Italian contribution to medical technology and environmental health Wednesday June 4 2014 - Italian Cultural Institute -&n...

In March 2013, an ISSNAF working group composed by renowned researchers presented H.E. Ambassador Claudio Bisognero with a comprehensive set of recommendations to tackle issues related to taxation, vias and other burocratic aspects of the life of Italian researchers in the United States.   The document based its conclusion on a wide survey c...

The Times They Are a-Changin'... also in Italy, thanks of a new generation of startuppers who don't wait anymore for something/somebody else, but take their own destiny in their hands. So said Riccardo Luna - (first from right in the photo) the founder of Wired.it and author of "Cambiamo tutto! Let's change everything! The revolution of innovators"...

Italian history seems animated by the desire to cross the borders of the peninsula and to establish Italianness within a global horizon, bringing it face to face with other societies and different local realities.   From Marco Polo's adventurous voyage to the heroic era of geographic discoveries, from Galileo's cosmic exploration to the dias...

Thursday , January 29th, 2015 early afternoon at the laboratories of Global Good-Intellectual Ventures the ISSNAF-Seattle Chapter Winter 2015 Meeting will take place.   The meeting, held in English, is open to Italians, Italian-Americans, and Italian sympathizers For more information email [email protected] or call Lorenzo Giacani at +...

October 27-28, 2015, Italian Embassy, Washington DC: "Where Italian researchers meet to discuss breakthrough ideas"   The talents and innovators of the Italian diaspora in the United States and Canada will meet the institutions, industry, and academia to help create industrial value, promote scientific research, and provide young and br...

The call for applications for ISSNAF/CNI internships 2013 was closed on May 20th. Many hundreds of applications were received and tutors are selecting finalists. From this roster of finalists, the joint CNI/ISSNAF Commission will select the winners by June 10th The names of the winners will be published on www.issnaf.org and winners will be co...