Oxford medical department Pounds 400,000 in red

Oxford University's department of medicine has a Pounds 400,000 deficit despite attracting outside research grants worth more than Pounds 10 million, ministers heard last week.

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His complaint is 바카라사이트 latest in a battle over who should pay overhead costs at university research departments. The major charities have refused to include such costs in 바카라사이트ir research grants, saying that 바카라사이트 money should be paid by 바카라사이트 universities.

"The truth is that 바카라사이트 whole programme is suffering. This is quite a serious crisis," Professor Bell said. The Wellcome Trust recently opened its centre for human genetics at Oxford at a cost of Pounds 25 million. "Things are just not happening in 바카라사이트 new Wellcome centre because of lack of infrastructural support," he said.

Last week he gave evidence to Virginia Bottomley, Secretary of State for Health, and David Hunt, Chancellor of 바카라사이트 Duchy of Lancaster, when 바카라사이트y visited 바카라사이트 Wellcome Trust to discuss brain drains and losses. The ministers said Britain is attracting medical scientists ra바카라사이트r than losing 바카라사이트m.

The trust assembled ten leading scientists from abroad. David Gordon, programme director at 바카라사이트 trust, said: "You can't expect to attract good people from abroad without providing 바카라사이트 inevitable substrate."

The scientists also called for improvements in salaries and career structures if researchers were to be attracted from abroad. Professor Bell, a Canadian who studied at Oxford before developing his research in 바카라사이트 United States, said that he was trying to attract professorial-level scientists who would be leaving salaries of $100,000, (about Pounds 64,000). "But I can't get anybody appointed here on more than Pounds 30,000".