The Nobel laureate Erwin Neher of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry helped lay the groundwork for the European Research Council (ERC), which in the tenth year of its existence is regarded as an international model of a well-run research funding organization. In our interview, Neher talks about important turning points during the early years. They include a petition, without which everything might have turned out differently.
discussion in the EURAB, which directly advised the EU Research Commissioner in Brussels