FORUM ON NEUROSCIENCE AND NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS
Converging Technologies, Emerging Partnerships
WORKSHOP SUMMARY
Miriam Davis, Sarah Hanson, Bruce Altevogt, Rapporteurs
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Miriam Davis, Sarah Hanson, Bruce Altevogt, Rapporteurs
Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders
Board on Health Sciences Policy
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BIOMARKERS PLANNING COMMITTEE
ALAN LESHNER (Chair), American Association for the Advancement
of Science, Washington, D.C.
MARC BARLOW, GE Healthcare, Inc., Bucks, United Kingdom
DENNIS CHOI, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
TIMOTHY COETZEE, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, New York
THOMAS INSEL, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda,
Maryland
KATHIE OLSEN, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia
WILLIAM POTTER, Merck Research Laboratories, Inc., North Wales,
Pennsylvania
WILLIAM THIES, Alzheimer’s Association, Chicago, Illinois
ROY TWYMAN, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and
Development, LLC, Titusville, New Jersey
IOM Staff
BRUCE ALTEVOGT, Project Director
SARAH HANSON, Senior Program Associate
LORA TAYLOR, Senior Project Assistant
JAMES MCGUINESS, Summer Intern
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FORUM ON NEUROSCIENCE AND
NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS
ALAN LESHNER (Chair), American Association for the Advancement
of Science, Washington, D.C.
HUDA AKIL, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MARC BARLOW, GE Healthcare, Inc., Bucks, United Kingdom
DANIEL BURCH, CeNeRx Biopharma, Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina
DENNIS CHOI, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
TIMOTHY COETZEE, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, New York
DAVID COHEN, Columbia University, Society for Neuroscience
representative, New York
RICHARD FRANK, GE Healthcare, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey
RICHARD HODES, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland
STEVEN HYMAN, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
JUDY ILLES, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
THOMAS INSEL, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda,
Maryland
STORY LANDIS, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and
Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland
TING-KAI LI, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism,
Bethesda, Maryland
MICHAL OBERDORFER, NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research,
Bethesda, Maryland
KATHIE OLSEN, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia
ATUL PANDE, GlaxoSmithKline, Inc., Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina
STEVEN PAUL, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana
WILLIAM POTTER, Merck Research Laboratories, Inc., North Wales,
Pennsylvania
PAUL SIEVING, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
RAE SILVER, Columbia University, New York
WILLIAM THIES, Alzheimer’s Association, Chicago, Illinois
ROY TWYMAN, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and
Development, LLC, Titusville, New Jersey
NORA VOLKOW, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda,
Maryland
FRANK YOCCA, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Wilmington, Delaware
CHRISTIAN ZIMMERMAN, Neuroscience Associates, Boise, Idaho
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STEVIN ZORN, Pfizer Global Research and Development, Ann Arbor,
Michigan
IOM Staff
BRUCE ALTEVOGT, Project Director
SARAH HANSON, Senior Program Associate
LORA TAYLOR, Senior Project Assistant
JAMES MCGUINESS, Summer Intern
IOM Anniversary Fellow
LISA BARCELLOS, University of California, Berkeley
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BOARD ON HEALTH SCIENCES POLICY*
FRED H. GAGE (Chair), The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La
Jolla, California
C. THOMAS CASKEY, University of Texas, Houston Health Science
Center
GAIL H. CASSELL, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana
JAMES F. CHILDRESS, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
ELLEN WRIGHT CLAYTON, Vanderbilt University Medical School,
Nashville, Tennessee
LINDA C. GIUDICE, University of California, San Francisco
LYNN R. GOLDMAN, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Baltimore, Maryland
LAWRENCE O. GOSTIN, Georgetown University Law Center,
Washington, D.C.
MARTHA N. HILL, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing,
Baltimore, Maryland
DAVID KORN, Association of American Medical Colleges,
Washington, D.C.
ALAN LESHNER, American Association for the Advancement of
Science, Washington, D.C.
JONATHAN D. MORENO, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
E. ALBERT REECE, University of Maryland School of Medicine,
Baltimore
LINDA ROSENSTOCK, University of California, Los Angeles
MICHAEL J. WELCH, Washington University School of Medicine,
St. Louis, Missouri
OWEN N. WITTE, University of California, Los Angeles
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AMY HAAS, Board Assistant
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the content of the summary rests with the rapporteurs and the institution.
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Reviewers
This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for
their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with
procedures approved by the NRC’s Report Review Committee. The pur-
pose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical com-
ments that will assist the institution in making its published report as
sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional stan-
dards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge.
The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to pro-
tect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the fol-
lowing individuals for their review of this report:
Joseph T. Coyle, Harvard Medical School
Allen D. Roses, GlaxoSmithKline
Ira Shoulson, Department of Neurology, Pharmacology and Medicine,
School of Medicine, University of Rochester
Although the reviewers listed above have provided many construc-
tive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the final
draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was over-
seen by Dr. Theodore R. Marmor, Yale University School of Manage-
ment, Professor Emeritus. Appointed by the Institute of Medicine, he
was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of
this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures
and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility
for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring com-
mittee and the institution.
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Contents
SUMMARY 1
INTRODUCTION 9
1 BIOMARKER AND BIOSIGNATURE PRINCIPLES 15
2 POTENTIAL TOOLS FOR BIOMARKER AND
BIOSIGNATURE DEVELOPMENT 27
3 PSYCHIATRIC AND DRUG ADDICTION
DISORDERS 39
4 NEUROLOGICAL AND EYE DISEASES 55
APPENDIXES
A References 71
B Public Workshop on Neuroscience Biomarkers and
Biosignatures: Converging Technologies, Emerging
Partnerships 81
C Workshop Attendees 87
D Biographical Sketches of Invited Speakers,
Committee Members, and Staff 91
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