A Nobel Prize winner and former President of the Royal Society, Sir Paul Nurse is Director and Chief Executive of the Francis Crick Institute. Science research has some of the most to lose from a less open Britain post-Brexit and so the sector will need to make its case forcefully. Nurse will be at the forefront of the science lobby given his high personal standing and wide connections. His review of the Research Councils was one of the key building blocks for the government’s Higher Education & Research Bill and reforms to the research landscape now on the horizon, and although controversial in some quarters, the review only enhanced the reputation of this classic big hitter.
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Paul Nurse
A Nobel Prize winner and former President of the Royal Society, Sir Paul Nurse is Director and Chief Executive of the Francis Crick Institute. Science research has some of the most to lose from a less open Britain post-Brexit and so the sector will need to make its case forcefully. Nurse will be at the … Continued
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