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One of Britain's leading brain injury scientists is to leave the UK and take up a position in Canada after winning a £13 million grant.

Dr Adrian Owen, a neuroscientist currently at Cambridge University, is to take up a position at the University of Western Ontario with five of his research staff following the awarding of the grant.

Owen is one of the world's top neuroscientists and he and his team were the first to communicate with patients in a persistent vegetative state, by using brain imaging.

"This comes with some sadness, but it's an amazing opportunity for me,"

Dr Owen told the Guardian newspaper.

"There's nobody in the UK putting down C$20m saying 'we think what you're doing is really cool, come and do it here.'"

The University of Western Ontario described the news as a coup not only for the academic community, but for the whole of Canada.

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