Science|Business Reporting

Nathalie Moll has been appointed Secretary General of the trade association EuropaBio, and will succeed Willy de Greef on 1 April.

Sanofi-aventis has signed a research partnership with AVIESAN, the French Life Sciences and Healthcare Alliance.

The UK regional development agency One North East is to investigate the role played by the region’s universities in catalysing economic development.

The European Commission and the European Patent Office (EPO) have agreed a two-year extension to the ip4inno programme.

Planting of genetically modified crops fell in Europe in 2009, as countries elsewhere increased adoption and China approved biotech food crops for the first time.