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to facilitate interaction among researchers and other players include the European Union’s Innovative Medicines Initiative which has established more than 40 consortia with financial and in-kind investments totalling two billion euros. Some projects focus on specific health issues, such as Alzheimer’s disease, chronic pain, diabetes and obesity. Others tackle bigger issues, such as drug and vaccine safety and the use of stem cells for drug discovery. The initiative is likely to be extended for a further 10 years with an additional 3.5 billion euros and its success has prompted imitators; last year, the US President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) recommended the US develops something similar.


The government has some supporters for its approach. Christopher Smith of government funding administrator, UKRI, has said the government’s position paper, Supporting UK R&D and Collaborative Research Beyond European Programmes, ‘pledges attractive routes for top talent from the rest of the world to join us here’. And he offers some reassurance for researchers left bereft.


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“In the event of non-association, our most pressing priority will be to provide immediate stability for the UK’s science, research and innovation sector and to implement the practicalities of switching from an established system to a new one. We are setting up the systems for those now, so they will be ready if needed. The issue of how to deal with applications that are ‘in-flight’ at the time of switching to UK alternatives is operationally and legally complex. We are working hard to iron out the details and will update very shortly.” The government, he says is also ‘developing a comprehensive plan of alternatives to Euratom R&T, Fusion for Energy, and Copernicus programmes, including interim measures’.


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Over time, polymers such as polypropylene, nylons and polyesters (the most common in carpets) along with pigments and dyes utilised in the manufacturing process of carpets and furniture will undergo photooxidative aging (UV degradation). The chances are, apart from discolouration occurring, there is also a slow release of harmful VOCs being released into the home.


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This represents an analytical challenge to manufacturers of the materials utilised in production of such products. During the R&D stage, materials likely undergo accelerated UV weathering testing in a Xenon Arc Machine. This helps to determine how a material will perform over time, it is however a lengthy test taking weeks or even months plus provides little chemical information as to why a product may fail.


Using the CDS PhotoPROBE with UV testing capabilities from Analytix it is possible to expose a material to a combination of heat, humidity and high intensity UV light. During the exposure we automatically collect the VOCs evolved and desorb to GCMS for analysis. This provides R&D chemists a level of information not previously obtainable and allows them to look at the chemistry as to why a particular material may not perform well under UV exposure. Better still, the whole analysis takes less than one hour to complete.


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So next time you open your curtains and let the sunlight fl ood in, do you ever wonder what is in the air that you breath? More information online: ilmt.co/PL/BlMR


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Faded furniture and carpets, over time we all notice it. We all have our favourite seat on the sofa and walk the same route across the living room to the kitchen leading to general wear and tear. Then we have the back of the sofa and the patch of carpet that we never walk across but both fade anyway. Chances are they are exposed to direct sunlight?


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Unfortunately, developing comprehensive plans has not been a noted strength of the government and it is GAMBICA’s view that these sticking plasters fail to address the very real threat to the UK’s capability to benefit from and lead collaborative research projects here in the UK. Even in the very short term, the market for lab equipment, lab space and lab expertise in the UK will decline as a result of the failure to find a way forward on the Northern Ireland protocol. But worse, over the long term the ebbing of innovation from the UK would be a body blow to our ability to compete internationally and to maintain our high tech, high wage economy. It is essential that we act now to do what’s right for business, for science and for our ability to lead the scientific innovation which is essential for our health and that of our planet.


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The CBI has been calling for the government to let business into the room to help with negotiations on the Northern Ireland protocol and GAMBICA supports allowing those with skin in the game to lend some de-politicised good sense to the talks.


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If academic research is an important concern for you, we would love to have your support for GAMBICA’s campaign on this hugely important, but woefully under- recognised issue. You can let me have your views by emailing me at jacqueline.balian@gambica.org.uk


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To view the GAMBICA position paper, go to https://www.gambica.org.uk/ resourceLibrary/gambica-industry-position-on-horizon-europe-pdf.html


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