BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE IN EUROPE.
European biomedical research is now in full resurgence, 19 years after the devastation of the World War II. The more advanced countries of Western Europe are gradually approaching a position of economic self-sufficiency with respect to research. However, certain problems persist. Lingering nationalism and language differences continue to inhibit Europe from finding its full strength as a scientific community. Educational reforms, manpower planning, and scientific support still lag far behind the technologic recovery of science. International pooling of scientific interests and activities, so necesary for the smaller countries, has been slow to develop. The bonds between American and European biomedical science are extraordinarily strong and healthy, the result of the huge flow of young Europeans to America and of American scientists to Europe for training. These training exchanges have done much more than extend technologic competence. The two communities, one European, the other American, have different attitudes and atmospheres for research, which complement and strengthen each other. The benefits which lie in collaborative research and training among laboratories of the two communities are becoming more and more apparent and no doubt will lead to new levels of creativity and productivity in biomedical research.
D035843:Biomedical Research; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D012106:Research; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D012586:Science
EUROPE; MEDICINE; RESEARCH; RESEARCH SUPPORT; SCIENCE