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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondent

EU scraps 115 grants for UK scientists and academics amid Brexit row

A cancer research scientist at work in a laboratory
Just 18 of 150 academics who applied for funding will take up the grants but must move to an EU institution to get the funds. Photograph: Image Source/Alamy

British scientists and academic researchers have been dealt a blow after 115 grants from a flagship EU research programme were terminated because of the continuing Brexit row over Northern Ireland.

One academic said he was “relieved” to be exiting the country and feared the UK was going down a “dark path” like Germany in the 1930s.

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