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Challenges and Opportunities for Education About Dual Use Issues in the Life Sciences

Committee on Education on Dual Use Issues in the Life Sciences

Board on Life Sciences

Division on Earth and Life Studies

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

In cooperation with

IAP: The Global Network of Science Academies

International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

International Union of Microbiological Societies

Polish Academy of Sciences

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COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION ON DUAL USE ISSUES IN THE LIFE SCIENCES

VICKI CHANDLER (Chair), Chief Program Officer,

Science, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Palo Alto, CA, USA

JENNIFER GAUDIOSO, Principal Member of the Technical Staff,

International Biological Threat Reduction Program, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA

ANDRZEJ GÓRSKI, Vice-President,

Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, POLAND,

ALASTAIR HAY, Professor,

Environmental Toxicology, University of Leeds, UK

MICHAEL IMPERIALE, Professor,

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

GABRIEL OGUNMOLA, Chairman,

Regional Committee for Africa, International Council for Science;

Executive Director,

Science and Technology Development Foundation;

former President,

Nigerian Academy of Sciences, Ibadan, NIGERIA

SERGIO JORGE PASTRANA, Foreign Secretary,

Cuban Academy of Sciences, Havana, CUBA

SUSAN SINGER, Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of the Natural Sciences,

Department of Biology, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA

GEOFFREY SMITH, Head,

Department of Virology, Imperial College London, UK

LEI ZHANG, Professor, Director,

International Liaison Office, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, CHINA

Staff

JO L. HUSBANDS, Study Director and Senior Project Director

KATHERINE BOWMAN, Senior Program Officer

ADAM P. FAGEN, Senior Program Officer (until June 2010)

BEN RUSEK, Program Officer

CARL-GUSTAV ANDERSON, Senior Program Assistant

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BOARD ON LIFE SCIENCES

KEITH R. YAMAMOTO (Chair),

University of California, San Francisco

BONNIE L. BASSLER,

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

VICKI L. CHANDLER,

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Palo Alto, CA

SEAN EDDY,

HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus, Ashburn, VA

MARK D. FITZSIMMONS,

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL

DAVID R. FRANZ,

Midwest Research Institute, Frederick, MD

DONALD E. GANEM,

University of California, San Francisco

LOUIS J. GROSS,

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

JO HANDELSMAN,

Yale University, New Haven, CT

CATO T. LAURENCIN,

University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT

BERNARD LO,

University of California, San Francisco

ROBERT M. NEREM,

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

CAMILLE PARMESAN,

University of Texas, Austin

MURIEL E. POSTON,

Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

ALISON G. POWER,

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

BRUCE W. STILLMAN,

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

CYNTHIA WOLBERGER,

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

MARY WOOLLEY,

Research!America, Alexandria, VA

Staff

FRANCES E. SHARPLES, Director

JO L. HUSBANDS, Scholar/Senior Project Director

JAY B. LABOV, Senior Scientist/Program Director for Biology Education

KATHERINE BOWMAN, Senior Program Officer

MARILEE K. SHELTON-DAVENPORT, Senior Program Officer

INDIA HOOK-BARNARD, Program Officer

ANNA FARRAR, Financial Associate

CARL-GUSTAV ANDERSON, Senior Program Assistant

AMANDA MAZZAWI, Senior Program Assistant

SAYYEDA AYESHA AHMED, Program Assistant

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Acknowledgments

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 National Academies’ Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the process.

We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:

Spencer Benson, University of Maryland

Marie Chevrier, University of Texas, Dallas

Malcolm Dando, University of Bradford, United Kingdom

Michael Hanna, University of Michigan

Elizabeth Heitman, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Joseph Kanabrocki, University of Chicago

Francis L. Macrina, Virginia Commonwealth University

Henry Metzger, National Institutes of Health

Jonathan Tucker, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies

Richard Witter, U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations, nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by W. Emmett Barkley, Proven Practices, LLC. Appointed by the National Academies, 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 committee and the institution.

The Polish Academy of Sciences served as the host for the workshop in November 2009. In addition to the able leadership of Professor Andrzej Górski, vice president of the Polish Academy, Dr. Urszula Wajcen, Director of International Relations, and two members of her staff, Anna Sienkiewicz and Joanna Szwedowska-Kotlinska, ensured the smooth and successful operation of the workshop.

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The Challenges and Opportunities for Education About Dual Use Issues in the Life Sciences workshop was held to engage the life sciences community on the particular security issues related to research with dual use potential. More than 60 participants from almost 30 countries took part and included practicing life scientists, bioethics and biosecurity practitioners, and experts in the design of educational programs.

The workshop sought to identify a baseline about (1) the extent to which dual use issues are currently being included in postsecondary education (undergraduate and postgraduate) in the life sciences; (2) in what contexts that education is occurring (e.g., in formal coursework, informal settings, as stand-alone subjects or part of more general training, and in what fields); and (3) what online educational materials addressing research in the life sciences with dual use potential already exist.

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