Geneticist leaves Cambridge for industrial research post

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Peter Goodfellow, a leading British geneticist, has decided to resign from his academic post at the University of Cambridge and join the pharmaceutical company SmithKline Beecham. The private sector can offer more attractive basic research facilities than the academic sector. According to Goodfellow, he has enjoyed working at the university, despite its many financial problems. George Poste, Dir at SmithKline, says that the company is planning to base all future diagnostic and therapeutic products on information about the human genome.

Officials and employees, Pharmaceutical industry, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Geneticists, Goodfellow, Peter, SmithKline Beecham. Pharmaceuticals

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'EU programme should increase support for social sciences'

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European Union ministers believe the EU's fifth Framework programme for research should include more social science input. Rapidly changing economic and political climates in Europe should be researched to a greater extent, according to Netherlands minister of education, science and culture Jo Ritzen. The British Labour party will probably agree with social democrat leaders to boost social science support if it wins the May 1997 general election.

Social aspects, Europe, European Union, Social science research, Cabinet officers, Cabinet officials

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Physicist-turned-ecologist to take top UK advisory post

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Robert May, the Australian physicist-turned-ecologist, was appointed the chief scientific advisor in Jun 1995 and is a perfect choice because of his broad academic and research background. He has been engrossed in the fields of biology and public policy as a Royal Society research professor. May's advisory post will provide him the opportunities to engage himself in the regions ranging from theoretical immunology to stock market behavior.

United Kingdom, Analysis, Biological diversity, Biodiversity, Ecologists, Science consultants

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