Be Open to International Collaborations Posted on July 25, 2008 Developing partnerships around the world can advance your research, believes Flavio Kapczinski (bio).

So I think one thing that I would strongly recommend would be to engage in networks of collaboration.

Let's say if you want to do a clinical trial, it's much easier to get the results and the patients if you can collaborate with other researchers like yourself. And I think another thing is to be open because the usual thing is that you want to collaborate with the person that is next door to you.

Let's say I work in a hospital, and there is a very good genetic section there. And the natural thing that is that I would collaborate with them.

But it turned that we developed a partnership with a group in Vancouver, Canada, and then we work in a better way with them. And it's easier, it works better than if you were working with the group next door.

So I think that with all we have with the Internet, the possibility of going back and forth to different countries, I think what we need to find is what will be the good person to collaborate with you, not the one that would be easier, but the one that would help you to get what you need and what you want.

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