Professor Susan M. Gasser, now director and group leader emeritus of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), shares the crucial aspects behind the FMI’s world-class reputation in basic research, her thoughts on the importance of public-private collaboration, and her perspectives on the European research ecosystem. Since February 1, Dr Gasser is the Director of the ISREC Foundation, which has established a new translational cancer research institute in Lausanne, called the Agora.
Europe has the tools to advance in both basic and translational research but on the latter, it perhaps needs to simplify its processes and expand both scope and working models
