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UK facing ‘brain drain’ of cancer researchers after failure to join EU scheme

Delay joining the Horizon Europe programme making it more difficult to attract and retain the brightest scientists

Top young cancer researchers are leaving the UK in a “brain drain” fuelled by the continuing failure to reach an agreement over the EU’s study programme, scientists warn.

The two-and-a-half-year delay in joining the £85bn Horizon Europe scheme, the largest collaborative research programme in the world, has “damaged the UK’s reputation” and made it more difficult to attract and retain the brightest researchers into the nation’s labs.

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