Barcelona-The Spanish government is giving hospital-based clinical researchers more freedom and cash in an effort to boost their role in the nation's biomedical research effort. Health minister Ana Pastor unveiled a package of measures this week that is intended to boost collaboration between hospitals, universities, and research centers, liberate hospital-based researchers from clinical duties, and even lead to the creation of spin-off companies at hospitals. "The present structure of biomedical research, dividing the basic and clinical arms, is artificial and inappropriate," Pastor told Science. She said she wants to foster "a culture of innovation in public hospitals."
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