DECRYPTION – The health crisis has also revealed the difficulties of French research: the country trains excellent scientists but many of them choose to go into exile for lack of funding.
The health crisis linked to Covid-19 will have brought our healthcare system to its knees, but also revealed the flaws in our research in the field of infectious diseases. France remains a country that trains excellent scientists, but for many of them it is easier to go into exile to find sufficient funding. In order to remedy this observation, the ministry announced in the midst of the crisis, in December 2020, the creation of a new agency, the ANRS-MIE (National Agency for Research on Emerging Infectious Diseases), responsible for providing a response durable to the problem. But, after three years of crisis, for many scientists, the situation has not changed much.
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“In research, we are used to the long term”, comments Bruno Canard, virologist at Aix-Marseille University and CNRS research director. Himself a specialist in the study of coronaviruses before the appearance of Sars-CoV-2, he struggled for a long time to obtain funding for work…
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