The Trieste lab and its counterpart in New Delhi, India, will each have 30 scientists, 20 postdoctoral researchers and 40 technicians. Many of the staff will be on two- to three-year appointments.
Both Falaschi and the ICGEB's General Director, I.C. (Irwin) Gunsalus, face uncertainty about future funding and the problem of attracting top-quality senior staff. Gunsalus, emeritus professor of biochemistry at the University of Illinois, was named this winter to head the new institute, following the abrupt departure two years ago of Burke Zimmerman, the original project leader who had hoped to become overall director.
Gunsalus, now working with UNIDO in Vienna, plans to join the Trieste center later this year. He recently appointed Krishna Tewari, chairman of the department of biochemistry and molecular Biology at the University of California, Irvine, as director of the ICGEB's New Delhi component. Six years after the ICGEB was first conceived, it has yet ...
