Lucas França arrived at University College London in 2016 for a PhD program in Neurosciences. During the studies intervals, França acts, in his third mandate, as President of the Brazilian Association of Postgraduate Students and Researchers in the United Kingdom (ABEP-UK).

In 1991, Vania Braga participated in a post-doctorate program in the Imperial Cancer Research UK (currently Cancer Research UK). Today she is a professor in the Imperial College, where she works on cellular signaling in cancer biology. She presides the Brazil Forum, which strives to be a reference for Imperial College students and works involved or interested in Brazilian matters or working with Brazilian institutions.

After studying a doctorate in Unicamp, Wen Hwa Lee studied post-doctorate in the United States, moved to France and currently is the head of the Oxford Martin Programme on Affordable Medicines, from University of Oxford, a program for the development of affordable medicines in the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC).

França, Braga and Lee talked about their experiences on connection with Brazilian researchers in Brazil and United Kingdom during the Brazilian Diaspora of Science, Technology and Innovation in the UK Workshop, on February 14th, in London.

The experiences lived by the Brazilians in the UK reinforce the old idea that the “Brain drain” can be replaced by the “Brain circulation”.

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