Gannon to depart SFI
SFI Director General, Prof. Frank Gannon has recently announced that he is to leave SFI in the coming months, to take up the position of Director of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.
Science Magazine has a brief piece about Frank’s announcement, although I think Frank is blaming himself a little too much for the current recession:
The SFI director jokes that Ireland should be happy to see him go. “I came back to Ireland for the first time in 1981, and the economy went way down hill. I left in 1994, the economy recovered. I came back in 2007, the economy is doing well and then immediately goes down. So I thought I had a duty to leave,” he says with a laugh.