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Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond COMMITTEE ON KEY CHALLENGE AREAS FOR CONVERGENCE AND HEALTH JOSEPH M. DESIMONE (Chair), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina and North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina TIMOTHY GALITSKI, Institute for Systems Biology and recently EMD Millipore Corporation, Danvers, Massachusetts JAMES M. GENTILE, Hope College, Holland, Michigan SHARON C. GLOTZER, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan SUSAN J. HOCKFIELD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts JULIE THOMPSON KLEIN, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan CATO T. LAURENCIN, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut CHERRY A. MURRAY, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts MONICA OLVERA DE LA CRUZ, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois NICHOLAS A. PEPPAS, University of Texas, Austin, Texas LYNNE J. REGAN, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut J. DAVID ROESSNER, SRI International, Redwood City, California STAFF KATHERINE BOWMAN, Study Director and Senior Program Officer CARL G. ANDERSON, Program Associate LAURENCE YEUNG, Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Fellow JOSEPH ALPER, Consulting Science Writer v Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond BOARD ON LIFE SCIENCES JAMES P. COLLINS (Chair), Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona ENRIQUETA C. BOND, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Marshall, Virginia ROGER D. CONE, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee SEAN EDDY, HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia SARAH C.R. ELGIN, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri DAVID R. FRANZ, Former CDR USAMRIID, Consultant, Frederick, Maryland LOUIS J. GROSS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee ELIZABETH HEITMAN, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee JOHN G. HILDEBRAND, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona RICHARD A. JOHNSON, Arnold & Porter, LLC, Washington, D.C. JUDITH KIMBLE, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin CATO T. LAURENCIN, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut ALAN I. LESHNER, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. KAREN E. NELSON, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland ROBERT M. NEREM, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia CAMILLE PARMESAN, University of Texas, Austin, Texas ALISON G. POWER, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York MARGARET RILEY, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts JANIS C. WEEKS, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon MARY WOOLLEY, Research!America, Alexandria, Virginia STAFF FRANCES E. SHARPLES, Director JO L. HUSBANDS, Scholar/Senior Project Director JAY B. LABOV, Senior Scientist/Program Director for Biology Education KATHERINE
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