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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

Brexit row could prompt exodus of senior scientists from UK

Research work in a lab
The UK government has promised to underwrite the funding, totalling about £250m. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

The UK is facing an exodus of star scientists, with at least 16 recipients of prestigious European grants making plans to move their labs abroad as the UK remains frozen out of the EU’s flagship science programme.

Britain’s participation in Horizon Europe has been caught in the crosshairs of the dispute over Brexit in Northern Ireland, meaning that 143 UK-based recipients of European Research Council fellowships this week faced a deadline of either relinquishing their grant or transferring it to an institute in an eligible country.

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