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US draws Swiss researchers

This content was published on May 9, 2002 Christian Simm, who heads the Swiss Science and Technology office in San Francisco, has studied the phenomenon. “I prefer to call it brain circulation,” he told swissinfo. “Until I’m dead or retire, no one can say I’ve been drained to the US.” Simm, who has a doctorate in engineering physics from the federal institute of…

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Novartis chooses Boston area as new research hub

This content was published on May 7, 2002 The company is to spend $250 million (SFr398 million) building a new institute, which will direct Novartis’s global drug research. CEO Daniel Vasella said the location had been chosen because of its proximity to the “best medical researchers in the world”. Novartis has already poached Dr Mark Fishman, a Harvard professor, to head the new…

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Swiss fear exodus of best scientific brains

This content was published on May 7, 2002 Novartis’s announcement that it is to build a $250 million (SFr398 million) research facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has provoked a frenzy of soul searching in the Swiss scientific community, which fears losing its best brains to the United States. Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella openly admits that he decided to relocate the company’s research headquarters from…

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Novartis chooses Boston area as new research hub

This content was published on May 7, 2002 The company is to spend $250 million (SFr398 million) building a new institute, which will direct Novartis’s global drug research. CEO Daniel Vasella said the location had been chosen because of its proximity to the “best medical researchers in the world”. Novartis has already poached Dr Mark Fishman, a Harvard professor, to head the new…

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Swiss engage US in small talk

This content was published on May 7, 2002 “Many people believe nanotechnology is one of the fields in which the next technological revolution will take place. So I think it is important for Switzerland to be part of it and to be part of it early,” said co-organiser Christian Simm from the Swiss science and technology office in San Francisco. Scientists, companies and…

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Novartis moves research headquarters to United States

This content was published on May 7, 2002 The multinational announced on Monday it was opening the new research facility – the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research (NIBR) – – in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company plans on making an initial investment of $250 million (SFr398 million). The new centre will oversee all research activities in Europe, the United States and Japan. Around 400…

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Swiss urged to confront silent killer

This content was published on May 6, 2002 During a two-day congress, which starts on Tuesday, representatives from medical, charitable and religious groups are to debate the causes and solutions to suicide, which experts say is still a taboo subject in Switzerland. A key goal is also to petition the Swiss government to become more proactive in fighting the problem. Every day, four…

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Erfurt murders prompt soul-searching in Switzerland

This content was published on May 4, 2002 Swiss cantonal education directors said they were considering additional measures to defuse violence among pupils. The statement was in response to last Friday’s shootings at Gutenburg Gymnasium in the German town of Erfurt, where a former school pupil gunned down 13 teachers, two students and a policeman before committing suicide. The incident has sparked much…

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To boldly go in Afghanistan

This content was published on May 4, 2002 When Henri-François Morand arrived in Afghanistan two years ago as the SDC’s deputy coordinator, he started out by visiting all the projects that benefited from Swiss support. His travels took him all over the country – by car when the roads allowed, but just as often by horse or on foot. “Those are among my…

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