This week in UK&I in brief: NSF planning ‘global research council’, Animal procedures up, Welsh university merger planned, and more.
NSF head planning ‘global research council’
Subra Suresh, director of the US National Science Foundation, is keen to start talks about a “global research council”, he told a meeting at the Royal Society in London on 13 July. Suresh said he plans to host an international meeting in Washington on the process of scientific merit review as a first step. He was speaking after meeting the heads of research councils of the G8 nations, last week.
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