Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, one of the winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has attacked UK government plans to divert research funding from basic science into projects that are expected to have a quick financial payoff, says the Guardian.
The shakeup in science funding announced earlier this year is a "huge mistake" that jeopardizes the UK's ability to make discoveries needed to drive technological progress, said Ramakrishnan.
Ramakrishnan moved to the UK from the US 10 years ago to join the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge.
