The EU has mobilised fairly quickly, with a good mix of funding for research on the coronavirus pandemic, says Matthias Kleiner, president of the Leibniz Association

The COVID-19 pandemic provides a stark illustration of why we need effective tools for sharing health data in Europe, say four MEPs

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

The Scientific Council of the ERC, the European Commission and Horizon Europe rapporteur Christian Ehler react to Mauro Ferrari's resignation letter published by the Financial Times on Tuesday.

Mauro Ferrari quits after just three months at helm of EU research agency, citing “uncoordinated” COVID-19 response. But MEP Ehler denounces the move as ‘window-dressing’

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