Mauro Ferrari left the European Research Council on 7 April after its scientific council called for his ouster. By Nicholas WallaceScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.Last week’s noisy resignation of Mauro Ferrari as president of the €2.2 billion European Research Council (ERC)—the European Union’s foremost funder of basic research—revealed a rift over its approach to research on the coronavirus pandemic.
Ferrari’s departure, just 3 months into the job, also showed the limits of an ERC president’s power to influence the course of a funding agency that prides itself on its independence.On 7 April, the same day Ferrari stepped down as ERC president and chair of its Scientific Council, he released a statement to
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