Matthew Cobb

And what can be seen as acceptable in one generation is seen as utterly awful in another.

um now the so the creek was set up uh i think it was opened in 2008 something like that to 2009 it's a huge great big building right by king's cross uh and some pancreas so if you come in uh on if you've been in europe and you come in on the eurostar the train

under the channel, you can come out right next to the Francis Crick Institute where his name is literally written in stone.

And so it's devoted to molecular biology and to neuroscience, to the life sciences in general.

And it...

I mean, when it was being proposed, before it was called this, there was a lot of dispute in the British scientific community.

Was it going to just suck up all our money, right?

You know, they were putting all this money into this big project.

And it's in London as well, so those of us who aren't in London got very annoyed.

But I think it has so far proven its worth.

It's run by Sir Paul Nurse, who used to...

run rockefeller and is also the incoming president of the royal society um and it has been tremendous in terms of the work that it's done both on things like um early embryonic development so there's great very important work going on on to understand why miscarriages take place

and to understand, therefore, the very early stages of embryonic development, but also fundamental research on, so what I spent all my career studying on Drosophila, the tiny little fly that scientists study.

There's scientists working on that, not in a biomedical orientation, but just trying to understand fundamental things.

There's people working on ancient DNA.

You know, there's absolutely everything goes on there.

Yeah.

I think they started talking about the funding.

They didn't name it, Bill, after he was there.

Well, a mixture.