Reforms at stake in Italian election

摘要

Virologist Ilaria Capua spent the Christmas holiday planning her exit strategy from Italy, where she is currently director of research at the IZSVe (the Experimental Institute for the Prevention of Animal Diseases), a public veterinary institute in Legnaro, in north-east Italy. Internationally renowned for her work on the H5N1 avian flu virus -and more patient than most with Italy's notoriously obstructive bureaucracy - she finally snapped last November after administrators at her institute blocked her from accepting an offer of generous lab space in a new research centre in a hospital in Padua.