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Other G20 leaders should step forward to make up shortfall in epidemic response fund, the UK says

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

Wolfgang Burtscher has been appointed to lead the commission’s agriculture directorate general, effective 1 April

The UK-based innovation network, in partnership with media company Science|Business, creates a free online “space” for COVID-19 researchers to find one another across the globe, and team up to find treatments and the funding to support their work

Most students in Europe can’t get to their campuses, and universities are scrambling to put together digital systems needed for remote learning

Now more than ever, international cooperation is needed to fight back against the pandemic. A protectionist approach to R&D will serve no one’s interests

A look at some of the main research teams working to develop a vaccine

Emmanuel Macron announces sudden aggressive budget boost in ‘an effort not seen since the post-war period’

Country famed for cultivating a lively digital start-up scene sets up hackathon competition in hours and awards €5K grants in three days

In exclusive written Q&A with Science|Business, EU commissioner for research, innovation, education and youth vows hundreds of millions for coronavirus R&D but calls on member states to agree on the multiannual budget to avoid delaying critical research.

Further delays to EU multiannual budget would slow down research to deal with coronavirus pandemic, EU research commissioner says

The European Commission’s R&D toolbox in the COVID-19 outbreak includes extended deadlines in Horizon 2020, additional funding opportunities for viral research - and less red tape

Meetings cancelled, workers sent home, conferences postponed as EU officials and lobbyists try to cope with the pandemic