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The heavyweights of UK health research are joining forces to found a £500 million Centre for Medical Research and Innovation in the heart of London.

The New Year will see the launch of ten new collaborative research projects to be funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG.

President Ralph Eichler has plans for growth and change at the top continental university – with a due measure of Swiss caution.

A Karolinska researcher decided to borrow ideas from computer games to treat children suffering from attention disorders – and ended up founding a company.

Although financial support from the European Union for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology is assured, a big question mark still hangs over funding from industry.

For two years France’s industrial innovation agency put large sums of public money into big company R&D projects. No longer.