Ten top European life sciences institutes have launched a new alliance to help themselves become more competitive and have a strong, unified voice in European science policy. The new group, EU-Life, had its kickoff here yesterday at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, one of its members. "All of us together, we can really try to make something powerful," says CRG Director Luis Serrano, who co-founded the new alliance.
EU-Life's members, besides CRG and VIB, are the French Curie Institute; the Netherlands Cancer Institute; the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Germany; the European Institute of Oncology, based in Italy; the Portuguese Gulbenkian Institute of Science; the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; the Central European Institute of Technology, based in the Czech Republic; and the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland.
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