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Nature 421, 786 (20 February 2003) | doi:10.1038/421786d

Eastern Europe nurtures talent for the West

Juraj Gregan1

  1. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK

As a scientist from Slovakia, one of the Eastern European countries in the process of joining the European Union, I was pleased to see your Opinion article "Too quiet on the Eastern front" discussing science in Eastern Europe (Nature 421, 459; 2003).After spending five years doing my PhD in Austria and two more years as a postdoc in England, I was interested in returning to Slovakia to pursue my scientific career there.