London, May 19 -- The UK is rolling out a series of long-term funding initiatives aimed at attracting top researchers leaving the United States, amid renewed policy shifts, budget cuts, and changing research priorities under President Donald Trump's administration.
Institutions including the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering are offering multi-million-pound packages to lure global talent in fields such as quantum computing, climate technology and antibiotic resistance.
The moves are designed to offer stability and safeguard British science from political turbulence abroad - what insiders are calling efforts to "Trump-proof" UK research, according to The Financial Times.
Sir Adrian Smith, president of the Royal Society, said...