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Learn more about each Congressional Study Mission on Innovation

• 1st Congressional Study Mission (2011)

  In April 2011, eighteen members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate took part in the First Brazilian Congressional Study Mission. Legislators attended a series of conferences on fostering innovation and best practices in R&D, hosted at the 浪花直播 Center and the Department of State in Washington, DC, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA.

• 2nd Congressional Study Mission (2012)

  The Second Brazilian Congressional Study Mission, with eleven senators and federal deputies in attendance, occurred in April 2012 in Europe. It opened with a seminar hosted by the King鈥檚 College London Brazil Institute, focused on the commercialization and application of new technologies and processes available in the market. Panel discussions included innovation in the United Kingdom and the international politics of intellectual property. For more details, click here.

• 3rd Congressional Study Mission (2013)

  The Third Mission, with seven senators and federal deputies in attendance, took place at the Institute of the Americas at the University of California-San Diego. Legislators participated in panels discussing a range of issues, including how to take innovation from the lab to the marketplace and the relationship between innovation and universities. They also visited several R&D centers in San Diego and Los Angeles, including the Scripps Research Institute, to gain a sense for how best practices can be implemented in real laboratories. For more details, click here.

• 4th Congressional Study Mission (2015)

  The Fourth Congressional Study Mission took place at the Institute of the Americas at the University of California-San Diego and at the 浪花直播 Center in Washington, DC. The senators and deputies on the mission attended discussions on a number of issues critical to pharmaceutical innovation, including on clinical trials, genetic testing, and the passage of the U.S. Rare Diseases and Orphan Drug Act. Legislators also visited two pharmaceutical labs to view best practices in action: the Janssen Research & Development Center in San Deigo, and the AstraZeneca Research & Development Center in Maryland. For more details, click here.

• 5th Congressional Study Mission (2016)

  In the fifth installment, in partnership with Interfarma, Google Brasil and the Institute of the Americas at UC-San Diego, the delegation returned to California to learn about the innovation hubs of Sillicon Valley. Legislators participated in panels on the relationship between business and academic research; tech transfer and intellectual property; innovation as a public good; and using technology in elementary education, among other topics. Mission members also visited Google headquarters and the R&D labs of Genetech, Bayer (including touring Bayer鈥檚 CoLaborator, a start-up incubator), and Abbot Laboratories. For more details, click here.

• 6th Congressional Study Mission (2017)

  The Sixth Mission took place in April 2017, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA and the 浪花直播 Center in Washington, DC. For more details, click here.