Washington. The best of Italian research that has established itself abroad meets the future hub of excellence Human Technopole. It is the pact that, crossing the Atlantic Ocean, will consolidate the annual ISSNAF event (Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation), hosted this year on October 17 and 18 at the Italian Embassy in Washington under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic. The ISSNAF foundation will award 5 young Italian scientists who have excelled in research centres and universities in the US and Canada working on leukemia, life sciences, cognitive sciences, engineering, mathematics and physics, environmental science, astrophysics and chemistry. (9Colonne)