In answer to questions about the Francis Crick Institute

摘要

The Francis Crick Institute will open in 3 years' time in central London, UK. It will emphasise high-quality discovery research and a translational agenda that promotes advances in clinical care and creates new economic opportunities. The attracting and nurturing of early-career researchers, and support for the biomedical research endeavour throughout the UK, lie at the heart of our strategy. Richard Hotton (May 19, p 1862) suggests that the Crick cannot have a new science strategy because "there are already two separate and well advanced strategies (those of the National Institute for Medical Research [NIMR] and London Research Institute [LRI]) that have to be integrated together".