Richard L. Hudson

‘Every war is a health crisis,’ says Karolinska Institutet’s Ole Petter Ottersen. Medical and other faculties must plan for the long haul – condemning Russia´s military aggression without sacrificing academic freedom

Boris Lushniak, Obama-era health official and now a university dean, offers guidelines for academics debating if they should sever Russian scientific ties. The goal: get Russian scientists to ‘look at the facts’

Leading US university ends 11-year deal with Moscow-area innovation hub Skolkovo, fueling international academic debate over continued collaboration with Russian science

Christian Ehler says the EU should suspend Horizon payments to Russia, as Germany freezes all research ties with Russia in unprecedented move

As Science|Business this month marks the 1000th issue of its newsletter, we republish our investigation into how and why the ERC lost its then-president in a 2020 fight over the agency’s mission. After an extensive search, molecular biologist Maria Leptin was named president in 2021. This article first appeared 29 October 2020.

As Antoine Petit begins his second term at the top of France’s biggest research organisation, he details an ambitious vision to strengthen French science

At the Science|Business Annual Conference, US and EU officials say they’re planning to discuss further research agreements in climate, health, digital and other fields. After Trump, this is, ‘a real turning of the page’

Surprise departure of Eric Lander could affect Biden science agenda – on cancer, climate, R&D budgets and scientific talent

Money, globalisation, entrepreneurship: some of the ways we have seen the research community evolving since the 2005 start of publication

A new round of €384M in Canadian grants wins applause from the R&D community, but also questions about how fast science and technology budgets can keep growing