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Science 24 November 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5803, p. 1227
DOI: 10.1126/science.314.5803.1227c
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Germany's Max Planck Society is considering opening an outpost in the Sunshine State. This month, society President Peter Gruss visited South Florida to discuss joining the Scripps Research Institute, the Burnham Institute, and several other high-profile research organizations that Governor Jeb Bush has lured to Florida (Science, 1 September, p. 1219). Scripps President Richard Lerner introduced Bush and Gruss during a Bush-led trade mission to Europe last year and has pushed the idea of Germany's premier research organization joining the Florida research pack. If the deal goes through, says Enno Aufderheide, chief of Max Planck's external relations, as many as three of the society's top scientists could take up residence in Palm Beach County. Aufderheide says the new institute would focus on bioimaging to complement the biochemistry, cancer research, and translational medicine research Scripps plans to do at its new campus in Palm Beach Gardens. The deal, worth several hundred million dollars, hinges on financing from state and local sources. No German taxpayer money would fund the new institute, Aufderheide says. The idea is "very attractive but far from a final decision," he says.




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