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Chapter: Appendix B: Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2014. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18722.
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Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants

AGENDA

September 16

8:00

Welcome
Chair: Joseph DeSimone (NAS, NAE), Committee Chair, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, University of North Carolina, and North Carolina State University

  • Overview of the background and goals of the meeting: Joseph DeSimone
  • Welcome on behalf of the National Academies:

    • Ralph Cicerone (NAS), President, National Academy of Sciences
    • C. D. Mote, Jr. (NAE), President, National Academy of Engineering
    • Harvey Fineberg (IOM), President, Institute of Medicine (by video)
  • How the goals of convergence complement OSTP priorities and activities: White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2014. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18722.
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8:30

Recognizing Emerging Areas of Science at the Convergence Interface
Chair: Nicholas Peppas (NAE, IOM), University of Texas at Austin
Session goal
: What can convergence achieve and what are selected examples of science with exciting implications that cannot be achieved without a convergence mindset and approach?

  • Phillip Sharp (NAS, IOM), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

9:00

Establishing Background and Introduction to the Examples of Convergent and Transdisciplinary Science
Chair: Hannah Valantine, Stanford University
Session goal:
What is the existing research base on how to foster and measure the success of convergent, transdisciplinary, and/or team-science-based research?

  • Overview of NRC Study of the Science of Team Science: Hannah Valantine, Stanford University
  • Review of the committee’s definition of convergence: Julie Thompson Klein, Wayne State University and David Roessner, SRI International

9:30

Break

Fostering Convergence in the Real World
How can the goals of convergence translate into practical results; that is, what have groups and organizations specifically done to support and foster convergence-enabled science? What has worked well and what has not worked as well? Speakers representing several different perspectives will provide brief snapshots of what they did, what challenges they faced, and what they learned.

9:45

The ecosystem of convergent research and innovation in the life sciences: Cherry Murray (NAS, NAE), Harvard University

10:00

Key Organizational Structures and Needs
Chair: Timothy Galitski, EMD Millipore Corporation and Institute for Systems Biology
Session goal
: Speakers in this session will particularly highlight factors in the successful implementation of

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2014. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18722.
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convergent research such as organizational policies and support structures, strategies to address differences in research practices from bringing diverse communities together, and physical and technical components.

  • Carla Shatz (NAS, IOM), Bio-X, Stanford University
  • Anna Barker, Transformative Healthcare Networks and Complex Adaptive Systems Network, Arizona State University
  • Susan Singer, Carleton College and National Science Foundation

11:00

Faculty Issues
Chair: Cato Laurencin (NAE, IOM), University of Connecticut
Session goal
: Speakers in this session will particularly focus on issues such as institutional rewards systems for convergence research and hiring, retention, promotion, and professional development of faculty

  • Fernando Martinez, Bio5 Institute, University of Arizona
  • Donald Ingber (IOM), Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University
  • Gerald Rubin, (NAS, IOM), Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
12:00 Working Lunch and Activity

If you could recommend one action each of the following actors could take that would best facilitate convergent research, what action would that be? Please try to identify a recommended action for at least two of the following categories. Write your answers on the provided post-it notes and affix them to the space beneath the name of the actor:


a) Institutions (e.g., universities, professional associations, nonprofits)

b) Units/Departments

c) Principal Investigators/Team Leaders

d) Educators

e) Postdoctoral Fellows and Students

f) Funding Agencies

g) Journal Editors

1:00 Challenges of Convergent Thinking and Innovation
Chair: Carol Folt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Arunava Majumdar (NAE), Google
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2014. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18722.
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1:30 Education and Training
Chair: Lynne Regan, Yale University
Session goal
: Speakers in this session will highlight issues surrounding the education and training of students. Issues might include ensuring students get the breadth of training and experience to work in a multidisciplinary setting but sufficient subject expertise for a major; how to issue degrees that span multiple departments or institutions; or other areas.
  • Katerina V. Thompson, University of Maryland College Park
  • Simon Mochrie, Yale University
  • Andrea Stith, BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado
2:30 Interinstitutional Arrangements and Partnerships
Chair: Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan
Session goal
: Speakers in this session will particularly discuss arrangements that span institutions.
  • Bruce Walker (IOM), Ragon Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University
  • David Canter, North Campus Research Complex, University of Michigan
  • Regis Kelly, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), University of California
3:30 Brief Break and Move to Small-Group Discussion Sections

3:45

Discussion Sessions
Session goal: Participants will be asked to think about the examples and models presented in the workshop as well as their own experiences, and start drawing out lessons on what works in different circumstances. Are there common themes? Are there factors that affect which model(s) appear to work best in different settings or for different goals? Participants will be assigned to a group based on their preferences and in order to get a balanced distribution. Discussion sessions will be given questions to use as starting points.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2014. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18722.
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GROUP A: Key Organizational Structures and Needs

Chair: Robert Nerem (NAE, IOM), Georgia Institute of Technology
Rapporteur: Adah Almutairi, University of California San Diego

  • GROUP B: Faculty Issues

Chair: Carl Simon, University of Michigan
Rapporteur: Joshua Kritzer, Tufts University

  • GROUP C: Education and Training

Chair: Emery Brown (IOM), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rapporteur: Jasmine Foo, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

  • GROUP D: Interinstitutional Arrangements and Partnerships

Chair: Matthew Tirrell (NAE), University of Chicago
Rapporteur: Manu Platt, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University

5:30

Adjourn for Day
Reception to follow

September 17

8:15 Introduction to Day 2: Joseph DeSimone, Committee Chair

8:30

Feedback from the Breakout Groups
Chair: Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Northwestern University Session goal: Breakout session rapporteurs will provide brief recaps of the key points from their group, followed by discussion.

9:30

Funding Models
Chair: James Gentile, Hope College
Session goal:
Provide an opportunity for agencies and foundations to share how they think about this issue and what issues or challenges they face.

  • Jon Lorsch, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2014. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18722.
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•  Dinah Singer, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

•  Joann Roskoski, Directorate for Biological Sciences, National Science Foundation

•  Maria Pellegrini, W.M. Keck Foundation

10:30

Break

10:45

Plenary: Roadmap for the Future
Discussion Leaders: Susan Hockfield, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Joseph DeSimone, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, University of North Carolina, and North Carolina State University
Session goal
: A facilitated discussion to draw out key messages and lessons learned from the workshop.

12:15

Concluding Remarks: Joseph DeSimone, Committee Chair

12:30

Workshop Adjourns

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2014. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18722.
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PARTICIPANT LIST

Margaret Ackerman

Assistant Professor

Thayer School of Engineering

Dartmouth College

Adah Almutairi

Associate Professor

Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

University of California, San Diego

Joseph Alper

Consulting Science Writer

Adam Arkin

Dean A. Richard Newton Memorial Professor, Department of Bioengineering

University of California, Berkeley

Director, Physical Biosciences Division

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Amanda Arnold

Senior Policy Advisor

MIT Washington Office

Ann Arvin

Vice Provost and Dean of Research

Lucile Salter Packard Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology

Stanford University

Dennis Ausiello

Director, Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health

Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Chief, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Randy Avent

Professor, Department of Computer Science

Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Development

North Carolina State University

Roberto Barbero

AAAS Fellow

Technology and Innovation Division

Office of Science and Technology Policy

Executive Office of the President

Anna Barker

Professor and Director, Transformative Healthcare Networks

Co-Director, Complex Adaptive Systems Network

Arizona State University

Cynthia Bauerle

Assistant Director

Undergraduate and Graduate Education

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2014. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18722.
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Ann Beheler

Executive Director of Emerging Technology Grants

Collin College

Rena Bizios

Peter T. Flawn Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

University of Texas at San Antonio

Krastan Blagoev

Program Director, Physics of Living Systems

Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences

National Science Foundation

William B. Bonvillian

Director

MIT Washington Office

Emery Brown

Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Health Sciences and Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anesthesia

Harvard Medical School

David Canter

Executive Director

North Campus Research Complex

University of Michigan

Ruben Carbonell

Director

William R. Kenan, Jr. Institute for Engineering, Technology & Science

North Carolina State University

V. Celeste Carter

Program Director

Advanced Technological Education Program

Directorate for Education & Human Resources

National Science Foundation

Miyoung Chun

Executive Vice President of Science Programs

The Kavli Foundation

Ralph Cicerone

President

National Academy of Sciences

Lee Ann Clements

Professor of Biology and Marine Science

Chair, Division of Science and Mathematics

Jacksonville University

James Collins

William F. Warren Distinguished Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Boston University

Clark Cooper

Senior Advisor for Science and Head of the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities

Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences

National Science Foundation

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2014. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18722.
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Joseph DeSimone

Director, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise

Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina (UNC)

William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, NC State University and of Chemistry, UNC

Raymond DuBois

Executive Director

Biodesign Institute

Arizona State University

Jennifer Elisseeff

Jules Stein Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering and Wilmer Eye Institute

Johns Hopkins University

Pelagie Favi

Graduate Student

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

University of Tennessee

Harvey Fineberg

President

Institute of Medicine

Michael Fisher

Distinguished University Professor and Regents Professor

Institute for Physical Science and Technology and Department of Physics

University of Maryland

Carol Folt

Chancellor

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Jasmine Foo

McKnight Land Grant Assistant Professor of Mathematics

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Cathy Fromen

Graduate Student

Department of Chemical Engineering

North Carolina State University

Timothy Galitski

Head of Science & Technology

EMD Millipore Corporation

Affiliate Professor

Institute for Systems Biology

James Gentile

Dean for the Natural and Applied Sciences

Hope College

Ronald Germain

Chief, Lymphocyte Biology Section

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

National Institutes of Health

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2014. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18722.
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Sharon Glotzer

S. W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Professor of Materials Science & Engineering

Professor of Physics, Applied Physics and Macromolecular Science & Engineering

University of Michigan

Piotr Grodzinski

Director, Office of Cancer Nanotechnology Research

National Cancer Institute

National Institutes of Health

Xue Han

Assistant Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Boston University

William Harris

President and CEO

Science Foundation Arizona

James Zachary Hilt

Associate Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Kentucky

Margaret Hilton

Senior Program Officer

Board on Science Education

National Research Council

Susan Hockfield

Professor of Neuroscience and President Emeritus

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kathryn Hughes

Senior Program Officer

Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology

National Research Council

Lynn Hull

AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow

Office of Cancer Nanotechnology Research

National Cancer Institute

National Institutes of Health

Donald Ingber

Director, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology, Harvard Medical School & Boston Children’s Hospital

Professor of Bioengineering

Harvard University

Ravi Iyengar

Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics

Director, Experimental Therapeutics Institute

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Thomas Kalil

Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation

Technology and Innovation Division

Office of Science and Technology Policy

Executive Office of the President

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2014. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18722.
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Lydia Kavraki

Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and Bioengineering

Rice University

Rusty Kelley

Program Officer

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Regis Kelly

Director

California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)

Melissa Kinney

Graduate Student

Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience

Georgia Institute of Technology

Joshua Kritzer

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Tufts University

Joerg Lahann

Director, Biointerfaces Institute

University of Michigan

Cato Laurencin

Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Professor of Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering

CEO, Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science

Director, Institute for Regenerative Engineering

University of Connecticut

Jerry Lee

Deputy Director

Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives

National Cancer Institute

National Institutes of Health

Jon R. Lorsch

Director

National Institute of General Medical Sciences

National Institutes of Health

Gesham Magombedze

Postdoctoral Fellow

National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)

University of Tennessee

Arun Majumdar

Director of Energy Initiatives

Google.org

Fernando Martinez

Director, BIO5 Institute

University of Arizona

Marcia K. McNutt

Editor in Chief, Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science

William Miller

Program Director

Directorate for Biological Sciences

National Science Foundation

Adrienne Minerick

Associate Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering

Michigan Technological University

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2014. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18722.
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Martha Mitchell

Associate Dean of Research

College of Engineering

New Mexico State University

Simon Mochrie

Professor of Physics and Applied Physics

Yale University

C.D. Mote, Jr.

President

National Academy of Engineering

Kelly Moynihan

Graduate Student

Department of Biological Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sarah Mueller

Graduate Student

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Cherry Murray

Dean

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Harvard University

Larry Nagahara

Director, Office of Physical Sciences-Oncology

National Cancer Institute

National Institutes of Health

Eric Nawrocki

Bioinformatics Specialist

Janelia Farm Research Campus

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Robert Nerem

Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine and Institute Professor Emeritus

Former Director, Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience

Georgia Institute of Technology

Corey O’Hern

Associate Professor

Departments of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Physics

Yale University

Monica Olvera de la Cruz

Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Director, Materials Research Center

Northwestern University

Maria Pellegrini

Executive Director of Programs

W. M. Keck Foundation

Nicholas Peppas

Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering

Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Professor, Departments of Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and College of Pharmacy

University of Texas at Austin

James Petersson

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry

University of Pennsylvania

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2014. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18722.
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Roderick Pettigrew

Director

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

National Institutes of Health

Rember Pieper

Associate Professor,

J. Craig Venter Institute

Manu Platt

Assistant Professor

Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Manu Prakash

Assistant Professor

Department of Bioengineering

Stanford University

Lynne Regan

Professor

Departments of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Chemistry

Yale University

Proctor Reid

Program Director

National Academy of Engineering

Gary Reiness

Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences;

Professor of Biology

Lewis & Clark College

Sandra Robinson

Graduate Student

Department of Biology

University of Massachusetts Amherst

David Roessner

Senior Fellow

Center for Science, Technology, and Economic Development

SRI International

Joann Roskoski

Deputy Assistant Director

Directorate for Biological Sciences

National Science Foundation

Gerald Rubin

Executive Director

Janelia Farm Research Campus

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Pamela J. Schofield

Manager, Corporate Research & Development

The Procter & Gamble Company

Belinda Seto

Deputy Director

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

National Institutes of Health

Armon Sharei

Graduate Student

Department of Chemical Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Phillip Sharp

Institute Professor

Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2014. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18722.
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Lindsey Sharpe

Graduate Student

Cockrell School of Engineering

University of Texas at Austin

Carla J. Shatz

Director, Bio-X

Professor of Biology and Neurobiology

Stanford University

Kamal Shukla

Program Director, Molecular Biophysics

Directorate for Biological Sciences

National Science Foundation

Carl Simon

Founding Director, Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Professor of Mathematics, Economics, and Public Policy

University of Michigan

Dinah Singer

Head, Molecular Regulation Section

Director, Division of Cancer Biology

National Cancer Institute

National Institutes of Health

Susan Singer

Laurence McKinley Gould Professor

Departments of Biology and Cognitive Science

Carleton College

Director, Division of Undergraduate Education

National Science Foundation

Daniel Solomon

Dean, College of Sciences

North Carolina State University

Nelson Spruston

Scientific Program Director and Laboratory Head

Janelia Farm Research Campus

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Stephanie Steichen

Graduate Student

Cockrell School of Engineering

University of Texas at Austin

Andrea L. Stith

Assistant Director for Interdisciplinary Education

BioFrontiers Institute

University of Colorado

Umesh Thakkar

U.S. Government Accountability Office

Katerina Thompson

Director

Undergraduate Research and Internship Programs

College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences

University of Maryland College Park

Julie Thompson Klein

Professor of Humanities; and

English Department Faculty Fellow for Interdisciplinary Development

Wayne State University

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2014. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18722.
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Matthew Tirrell

Pritzker Director

Institute for Molecular Engineering

University of Chicago

Robert Tjian

President

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hannah Valantine

Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Leadership

Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine

Stanford University School of Medicine

Amy Cheng Vollmer

Professor of Biology

Swarthmore College

Geoffrey von Maltzen

New Venture Principal

Flagship Ventures

Evan Vosburgh

Executive Director

Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation

Vivek Wadhwa

Vice President of Innovation and Research

Singularity University

Bruce Walker

Director

Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard

Tina Winters

Associate Program Officer

Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences

National Research Council

Jodi Yellin

Director, Group on Graduate Research and Education

Association of American Medical Colleges

Dorothy Zolandz

Deputy Director

Division on Earth and Life Studies

National Research Council

Board on Life Sciences Staff

Frances Sharples

Director

Board on Life Sciences

National Research Council

fsharples@nas.edu

Katherine Bowman

Senior Program Officer

Board on Life Sciences

National Research Council

kbowman@nas.edu

Carl Anderson

Program Associate

Board on Life Sciences

National Research Council

cganderson@nas.edu

Ayesha Ahmed

Senior Program Assistant

Board on Life Sciences

National Research Council

sahmed@nas.edu

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop on Key Challenges in the Implementation of Convergence: Agenda and Participants." National Research Council. 2014. Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18722.
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Convergence of the life sciences with fields including physical, chemical, mathematical, computational, engineering, and social sciences is a key strategy to tackle complex challenges and achieve new and innovative solutions. However, institutions face a lack of guidance on how to establish effective programs, what challenges they are likely to encounter, and what strategies other organizations have used to address the issues that arise. This advice is needed to harness the excitement generated by the concept of convergence and channel it into the policies, structures, and networks that will enable it to realize its goals.

Convergence investigates examples of organizations that have established mechanisms to support convergent research. This report discusses details of current programs, how organizations have chosen to measure success, and what has worked and not worked in varied settings. The report summarizes the lessons learned and provides organizations with strategies to tackle practical needs and implementation challenges in areas such as infrastructure, student education and training, faculty advancement, and inter-institutional partnerships.

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