he European Commission has given the go-ahead for the €700 million construction of three pan-European research infrastructures to support the biological sciences, funded by national governments and the EU.In the first, France will coordinate the development of infrastructure for studying how ecosystems respond to environment and land-use change, while the UK will lead the on the creation of an infrastructure to integrate systems biology capabilities to promote applications in pharmaceuticals, healthcare and agriculture. The third new infrastructure, to be jointly handled by France and Germany, will build a reference collection of viruses, bacteria and fungi and make it available to scientists across Europe, for research on infectious diseases, crop pests and bio-security.
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Author: Anna Jenkinson
