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Tutti Johansson Falk

Caterina Biscari stays on as Chair of LEAPS

2 October, 2020 by Tutti Johansson Falk

Caterina Biscari, Chair of LEAPS

The LEAPS General Assembly is delighted to announce its unanimous approval of Dr. Caterina Biscari as the Chair of LEAPS for another year (2021). Caterina Biscari is since 2012 Director of the ALBA Synchrotron in Barcelona, Spain, and, as a physicist, developed her scientific career in several European laboratories, especially in Italy and at CERN.

“It has been a huge honour to have served as Chair of LEAPS in 2020 and it is with great pleasure and renewed enthusiasm that I accept to continue working for LEAPS success.”

The LEAPS family cordially congratulates Caterina.

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LEAPS endorse the Manifesto for EU COVID-19 research

22 September, 2020 by Tutti Johansson Falk

“Endorsing this manifesto for Covid-19 research is a natural step, given that many of the LEAPS members have been instrumental in research about the virus since the start of the outbreak. Making the results of the research broadly available as soon as possible is vital to ensure a fast and safe route to developing a vaccine and better treatments”, says Caterina Biscari, Chair of LEAPS and Director of ALBA Synchrotron.

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Analytical Research Infrastructures of Europe (ARIE) join forces to face COVID-19 and other viral and microbial threats

16 September, 2020 by Tutti Johansson Falk

After the joint position paper published as a pre-release in July, in which the Analytical Research Infrastructures of Europe (ARIE) presented their plan to tackle Horizon Europe Missions,  the ARIE enhanced its cross-border, multidisciplinary collaboration to offer Europe a strong and valid weapon against the present COVID-19 challenge and other potential viral and microbial threats.

Viral Threats PaperDownload

To read the paper directly, please use this link.

“With this paper, once again, the Analytical Research Infrastructures of Europe (ARIE) have demonstrated their multidisciplinary strength”, says Caterina Biscari, Chair of LEAPS and Director of the ALBA Synchrotron in Spain. “The varied and complementary analytical techniques available in the ARIE, coupled with the strong scientific European networks, have enabled to join efforts and battle the sudden, unexpected challenges of the present COVID-19 pandemic”.

The ARIEs are centres of scientific and technological excellence and represent the widest and most mature set of research infrastructures in the world. Supporting a growing community of some 40,000 researchers across Europe, and indeed the globe, they bridge scientific disciplines, academia and industry, and function as multi-faceted science and technology enablers. ”They have already demonstrated that they are able to stand together to confront societal challenges such as cancer and COVID-19, ” says the coordinator of the ARIE working groups, Mirjam van Daalen, vice-Chair of the LEAPS coordination board and Chief of Staff of the Photon Science Division at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland. ”Their unique capacities, skills and cultures – often reflected in their position on the ESFRI Roadmap – are critical to the analytics and characterisation of Viral and Microbial threats.”

“The technical expertise of the ARIEs has an impressive track record in fostering the development of critical technologies for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in medicine and health,” highlights Helmut Schober, Chair of LENS and Director of the leading European Neutron Source ILL in Grenoble, France. “The combination of high-end infrastructure and expertise at the different ARIEs is unmatched in the world and it forms an ideal base to develop new and existing multi-disciplinary approaches to tackle infectious agents,” adds Schober.

ARIE Horizon Europe Mission PaperDownload

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