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Institutions can retool to make research more rigorous

Big moves to rebuild the scientific infrastructure are possible.
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  1. Ulrich Dirnagl

    1. Ulrich Dirnagl directs the QUEST Center at the Berlin Institute of Health.

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Five years ago, I was part of a small group of ‘activists’ who convinced the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), where I work, to try out a set of reforms intended to improve the trustworthiness, usefulness and ethics of research. Things grew from there: three years ago, with the help of government grants and some nudging by a retired local politician, we secured €2.5 million (US$2.9 million) per year for efforts to build up incentives and technologies that increase rigour.

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Nature 588, 197 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02905-1

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