Subvenciones Educativas para el Cuidado de la Salud y Microscopia de Olympus para Latinoamérica
Welcome to the Olympus Health Care and Microscopy Grants Application Site for Latin America
The Olympus Corporation of the Americas Grants Committee (?Committee?) reviews grant applications for monetary support for genuine medical educational functions or events related to disease states, conditions and/or treatments for which Olympus products are used. Olympus is proud of our Grants program and the benefits that it provides to medical and microscopy communities across the Americas. We offer the following information to clarify grant program criteria and requirements.
Our grants process is designed to ensure compliance with anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws such as the United States Foreign Corrupt Practice Act, which is enforced in all of the Latin American countries where Olympus does business.
Understanding anti-corruption laws is quite simple: The laws of your country and the United States (where the Olympus Grants Committee is based) prohibit companies like Olympus from making corrupt payments (or providing other items of value, such as products) to any Government Official to obtain or retain business.
In most Latin American nations, academic medical centers and core facilities (microscopy) qualify as government entities and health care professionals, microscopists and all personnel working for those institutions are Government Officials because of their employment relationships or affiliations with public hospitals, public academic medical centers and core facilities. For this reason, all applicants (health care professionals, microscopists, and any individual or personnel acting on behalf of a Requesting Organization) must understand the following:
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