Three years ago, everyone seemed to want neuroscientist Zachery Mainen. Janelia Farm Research Center, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's prestigious new hub in Ashburn, Virginia, had just made a generous offer to recruit him and his frontier studies on decision-making. His current employer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, made a more tempting counter offer. But it was a third, unexpected proposal that he couldn't refuse. Even though the research centre in question did not yet exist. And even though it was in Portugal.
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