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23 Feb 2021 | Viewpoint
Viewpoint: EU needs a biomedical research lab modelled on UK’s Francis Crick Institute
To boost infectious disease research post-pandemic, Europe should emulate the Crick’s dual approach of running basic research in parallel with translating discoveries to treatments, says Nobel prize winner Michael Houghton
Michael Houghton, 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and Li Ka Shing Professor of Virology, University of Alberta.
Learning the lessons of COVID-19, the EU should modernise its approach to biomedical science, creating its own version of the London-based Francis Crick Institute to carry out and translate infectious disease research, according to virologist and Nobel laureate Michael Houghton.