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Nobel prize-winning scientist Harald zur Hausen steps down as chair, citing personal reasons. He is replaced by Walter Ricciardi. Bettina Ryll, founder of a patients’ group that has transformed access to novel skin cancer treatments, joins the board

Slim chances for MEP Dan Nica to become Romania’s next EU commissioner for transport

Call for bigger budgets for the European Research Council and culture-related research comes ahead of rocky budget negotiations

Author of government report on Brexit contingency planning for science says UK will need new research funding body, an immigration policy overhaul and money for a wide ‘talent hunt’ if country crashes out of EU

EU’s technology regulator will announce new AI rules in the first 100 days of her mandate. “Some say China has all the data and the US has all the money. But in Europe, we have purpose,” she says

Chair of UK parliament’s science committee, Norman Lamb, predicts UK will support entry to the next EU research programme, ‘almost at any cost, almost whatever the terms’

EU research programme needs simpler rules for paying staff costs, while payments to SMEs are a major source of error and need additional checks