Singapore biotech drive loses star UK scientists
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Top scientists David and Birgitte Lane are set to leave Singapore to take up new positions at Scotland's University of Dundee, which could complicate the city-state's multi-billion dollar biotechnology ambitions.
Cancer expert Lane and his wife Birgitte, a skin cell expert, would return to Scotland in January to lead the new Division of Molecular Medicine at Dundee's College of Life Sciences, a statement on the university's Web site said.
The Singapore government, which has attracted some of the world's top researchers to its shores in a bid to build up its biomedical industry, downplayed the move.
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Sir David Lane... seen this man when I was doing my attachment at IMCB before.
Someone highly-respectable.
I'm starting to wonder if there would be any setbacks in the science-driven opportunities in Singapore. Doubting much about any backward progress though, judging on how well we have gained with our biomedical industry in the economy.
