Europe awards a English research rejected four times by the Government
S. BASCO. MADRID.
On day 15, the European Research Council (ERC, European Research Council), as part of its program "Ideas", selected from more than nine thousand jobs a line of investigation by Eduardo Moreno Lampaya, Team Leader Competition Cell-attached to the Molecular Pathology Program-National Research Center (CNIO).
The selection of the research project "Supercompetidores" by the ERC carries a prize of one million euros over five years, half of which Eduardo Moreno will present a report over the course of their work, which delve into the study of the biological mechanism by which cancer cells thrive in pretumorales stages, eliminating the healthy cells without causing malformations or alarm signals. The grant gives the scientist the ability to move their studies to other European research institutions, as it is personal, and Moreno could form a new team outside Spain. However, the head of the Cellular Competition Group CNIO prefer to continue their research in our country.
downward rating
The relevant case is not about being important, the selection of the project by the European Research Council, but that this same line of work was proposed for four consecutive years the Ministry of Education and Science to raise funds for its development and was rejected so many times, each time with a lower valuation than the previous. Repeated disqualification
This has not prevented the Minister of Education and Science, Mercedes Cabrera, congratulated the researcher in a letter sent last day 20, the ABC has had access, which states that the selection of the draft Moreno Lampaya "is a fitting reward for effort and work throughout his career, and an encouragement to persevere in the future. Minister of Education and Science "continues Cabrera, "I want to convey my appreciation and encourage him to continue developing his research within the highest standards of quality."
not appear before the ERC award from the Lampaya Moreno draft should transit "within the highest standards of quality", judging by the opinion of the Ministry and the evaluation committees.
Eduardo Moreno, speaking to ABC, believes that "something strange, the nature of which escapes me, has happened in the Ministry in relation to this project." The investigator has responded to the congratulations of the Minister with an open letter, which has also agreed this newspaper, which communicates Cabrera that "this research project has been rejected four years followed by the agency for assessment of his ministry."
"The first two years, told me not to work," Moreno continued, "that was too ambitious and that there was no evidence that what I was looking for existed ... When it became evident that the project worked and that I was looking for other genes seemed to be ... unofficial so I came to say I was arrogant. This year ... partly because I have no confidence in its evaluation system, I have not even submitted to the call of his ministry. "
'"The next step will have to leave the country? "Asks the researcher ... Essentially throwing me go little by little, and now Europe welcomes me a second time. "
Lampaya Moreno, who did his thesis on the hand of Ginés Morata, Prince of Asturias of Scientific Research, has developed its work, among other places, at the Institute of Molecular Biology of Zurich's Institute of Molecular Biology Severo Ochoa, the CSIC, and now at the CNIO. Is by no means a newcomer, since he has published a great number of papers in leading scientific journals. The latter, on 14 January, "Nature Reviews Cancer ', on how tumor cells thrive on" murder "of healthy cells, their field favorite. And it has lacked the financing of the Community of Madrid, Caja Madrid and Mutua Madrilena.
"squeezed Scholars'
Yesterday, while a group of" fellows squeezed ", belonging to the Federation of Young Scientists, the minister gave Cabrera a symbolic basket of oranges at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Eduardo Moreno commented to this newspaper that "more than a political problem is cultural ... in Spain the authorities are frightened by the bold and innovative projects. You say 'this has not been anyone in the world. " Of course, if has already been made not investigate it. " The young scientist -Madrid, 1970 - believes that "should be amended project appraisal system, which is anonymous here, unlike Europe, and needed, above all, a firm commitment to research and the future."
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