Terrible news for science in Portugal. The Gulbenkian Foundation is killing off the IGC. This will leave the Champalimaud as the only truly independent international research center in the country.

publico.pt/2023/03/22/ciencia/

* in the life sciences, I don't know all of what's out there in other fields.

@schoppik Yes, especially because they would be dumping a basic science institute in favor of 'translational' research

@schoppik Foundation will close IGC and move funding and some groups to the biomedical Molecular Medicine Institute of Lisbon University - which coincidentally is where the new Foundation President and the board member handling this came from (Vice Dean and Dean, respectively, per the piece you cannot open).

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@schoppik It plays into a larger translate only framework from Europe - soon it will become like the medieval scholastic tradition here: only translators of previous work, no new ideas

sciencebusiness.net/news/Horiz

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