UK-led cancer and climate trials at risk as British researchers become liability
by Anna Fazackerley from Science | The Guardian on (#4JB4Y)
Projects headed by UK universities have fallen sharply since Brexit vote
British researchers say they are being shut out of bids for major European research partnerships, or asked to keep a low profile, because of fears that the threat of a no-deal Brexit could contaminate chances of success.
An analysis by University College London of the latest EU research funding data shows that UCL and eight other Russell Group universities were running around 50 big European research collaborations a year in 2016, but only 20 in 2018.
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