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When Obama moved to open relations, just a few days later, we re-framed the letter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very important that it appeared in a very high impact journal,\u201d he added. \u201cThe <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em> is one of the best-respected journals in the world. Our hope is that by putting it there, we would receive strong press coverage that might influence U.S. lawmakers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In October 2014, Cohen and other 35 foreign researchers travelled to Havana to attend the inauguration of a new research facility at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2015\/04\/15\/1504973112.full.pdf\">Cuban Neuroscience Center<\/a> (CNEURO, for its Spanish acronym), and the celebrations for the 24th anniversary of its foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cohen\u2019s invitation came from his friend and collaborator, Pedro Valdes-Sosa, CNEURO General Vice-Director for Research, and a member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences (ACC).<\/p>\n<p>The next step then was to secure the required clearance to travel to Cuba, a process that according to Cohen was tortuous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very tedious to get the permits,\u201d he said, \u201crequiring a fair amount of bureaucracy. It was not possible to get a standard permit for this from the U.S. government, as these take months to obtain and there wasn\u2019t sufficient time for that. I was able, however, to obtain a permit under the general license for scientists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the annoyance of dealing with the bureaucratic apparatus, the travellers had to experience other inconveniences as a consequence of the delay, such as not having the opportunity to buy plane tickets at reasonable prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe flights became VERY expensive, because I could not make travel arrangements until the permits had cleared, which meant booking at the last minute,\u201d said Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, having Cuba as a destination meant that they could not cover those expenses with institutional resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI paid for the trip from personal funds,\u201d he added, \u201cas there was no possibility of using support from the grants that fund my research due to the embargo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the three days they were in Cuba, they witnessed first-hand what they would describe as \u201cCuban enthusiasm for biomedical science\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45945\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45945\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pnas-cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-45945 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pnas-cover-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"pnas-cover\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pnas-cover-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/pnas-cover.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover of a previous issue of PNAS, the magazine that published the opinion article.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOur Cuban colleagues have been leading contributors to the international scientific community,\u201d they wrote, highlighting the achievements of Cuba in the fields of biotechnology and the biomedical sciences, as well as the opportunities available for U.S.-Cuban partnerships in atmospheric sciences, geology, computational biology, and oncology nursing.<\/p>\n<p>In reference to the obstacles the U.S. embargo has meant so far for scientific cooperation, they said that those political barriers are \u201cartificial, arbitrary, even demeaning to both Cuban and U.S. scientists, and are a source of awkwardness in the greater worldwide community of scientists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So far dominated by political and economic interests, U.S.-Cuba talks could benefit from the input scientists from both countries could provide, something that would help to ensure that new policy agreements take such opportunities for scientific benefit into account.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the scientific community, the authors of the article asked the government to explore immediately available and longer-term steps, such as \u201caddressing the sharing of 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