The global pandemic is brutally exposing how reliant the EU – and the rest of the world – is on high quality research, collaboration and data sharing. These lessons must be applied in Horizon Europe  

Funding vaccine, drug and diagnostic development is the world’s one exit strategy from the pandemic

Race to halt the epidemic has prompted intense collaboration among researchers and public health officials worldwide - leaving the blame game to governments

EIT Health is matching hospitals and clinics with advice, computer resources, data tools and equipment. But much of its research is on ice, as all available hands go to fighting the pandemic

A €3M EU-funded research project is pulling together a ‘drug box’ from compound libraries around Europe for rapid screening against the crystal structure of the new coronavirus in some Europe’s largest supercomputers

Overworked scientists from a broad range of disciplines are helping make this ‘the most quantified outbreak of all time’

Based on the JRC design, a German biotech has manufactured enough material to validate 60 million tests

The biggest problem in finding a cure or vaccine isn’t money. It’s lack of coordination. We need a better way of identifying the global research gaps for this 21st century Manhattan Project of health

The coronavirus crisis is leading to lower emissions across Europe and around the world. But these reductions are temporary  - and, despite a  postponement of the global climate summit, experts say now is not the time to put green energy research and climate policy on lockdown

This won’t be the last big global health crisis, warns Pierre Meulien, director of the EU’s Innovative Medicines Initiative