Microbe Talk - Conversations on Collaboration: Sir Paul Nurse on collaborative working and Horizon Europe

Posted on October 20, 2023   by Katie O'Connor

In this episode of Microbe Talk, our Policy and Engagement Officer Katie chats to Sir Paul Nurse, Director of the Francis Crick Institute and former President of the Royal Society. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of protein molecules that control the division of cells in the cell cycle and has since received over 70 honorary degrees. In this episode, Katie and Paul talk about the importance of collaboration and co-working in science, and discuss the UK’s recent re-association with Horizon Europe, the EU funding programme for research and innovation.

 

You can read a full transcript here. 

You can read the official Microbiology Society response to the UK’s re-association with Horizon Europe, here.

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