Large-Scale Biomedical Science: Exploring Strategies for Future Research

296 Pages·2003·5.805 MB·English

by  Committee on Large-Scale Science and Cancer Research, National Research Council, Sharyl J. Nass, Bruce W. Stillman

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Committee on Large-Scale Science and Cancer Research
Sharyl J. Nass and Bruce W. Stillman, Editors
National Cancer Policy Board
INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE
OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
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Large-scale biomedical science : exploring strategies for future
research / Sharyl J. Nass and Bruce W. Stillman, editors ; Committee on
Large-scale Science and Cancer Research, National Cancer Policy Board
and Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council.
p. ; cm.
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COMMITTEE ON LARGE-SCALE SCIENCE
AND CANCER RESEARCH
*JOSEPH V. SIMONE, M.D. (Chair), Simone Consulting,
Dunwoody, GA
*BRUCE W. STILLMAN, Ph.D. (Vice Chair), Director, Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
*ELLEN STOVALL (Vice Chair), Executive Director, National
Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, Silver Spring, MD
*DIANA PETITTI, M.D. (Vice Chair), Director, Research and
Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente of Southern California,
Pasadena, CA
*JILL BARGONETTI, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Hunter College,
New York, NY
BARRY BOZEMAN, Ph.D. Regents Professor of Public Policy,
Director of the State Data and Research Center, Georgia Institute
of Technology, Atlanta, GA
*TIM BYERS, M.D., M.P.H. Professor of Epidemiology and
Associate Director, University of Colorado Cancer Center,
University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO
TOM CURRAN, Ph.D. Chairman of the Department of
Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude’s Children’s Research
Hospital, Memphis, TN
*TIMOTHY EBERLEIN, M.D. Bixby Professor and Chairman,
Washington University School of Medicine, Department of
Surgery, St. Louis, MO
DAVID GALAS, Ph.D. Chief Academic Officer and Norris
Professor of Applied Life Sciences, Keck Graduate Institute of
Applied Life Sciences, Claremont, CA
*KAREN HERSEY, J.D. Senior Intellectual Property Counsel, Office
of Intellectual Property Counsel, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA
*DANIEL J. KEVLES, Ph.D. Professor, Yale University, Department
of History, New Haven, CT
LAUREN LINTON, Ph.D., M.B.A. President, Linton Consulting,
Lincoln, MA
*WILLIAM W. MCGUIRE, M.D. Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, UnitedHealth Group, Minnetonka, MN
*JOHN MENDELSOHN, M.D. President, University of Texas, M.D.
Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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*KATHLEEN H. MOONEY, Ph.D. Professor and Peery Presidential
Endowed Chair in Nursing Research, University of Utah College
of Nursing, Salt Lake City, UT
*NANCY MUELLER, Sc.D. Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard
School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Boston,
MA
*PATRICIA A. NOLAN, M.D., M.P.H. Director, Rhode Island
Department of Health, Providence, RI
*CECIL B. PICKETT, Ph.D. Executive Vice President, Discovery
Research, Schering Plough Institute, Kenilworth, NJ
STEPHEN PRESCOTT, M.D. Executive Director H.A. and Edna
Benning Presidential Chair in Human Molecular Biology and
Genetics, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt
Lake City, UT
*LOUISE B. RUSSELL, Ph.D. Research Professor of Economics,
Institute for Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
*THOMAS J. SMITH, M.D., F.A.C.P. Professor, Medical College of
Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University, Division of
Hematology, Richmond, VA
*SUSAN WEINER, Ph.D. President, The Children’s Cause, Silver
Spring, MD
*ROBERT C. YOUNG, M.D. President, American Cancer Society
and the Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
STUDY STAFF
SHARYL J. NASS, Ph.D. Study Director
ROGER HERDMAN, M.D. Director, National Cancer Policy Board
MARYJOY BALLANTYNE Research Associate
NICCI DOWD Administrative Assistant (through January 2003)
NAKIA JOHNSON Project Assistant (from February 2003)
*Members of the National Cancer Policy Board, Institute of Medicine, The National
Academies.
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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 pro-
cedures approved by the NRC’s 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 integ-
rity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individu-
als for their review of this report:
Mina J. Bissell, Ph.D. Distinguished Scientist, Life Sciences
Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Marvin Cassman, Ph.D. Director, QB3 at University of California,
San Francisco
Mildred Cho, Ph.D. Senior Research Scholar and Acting Co-director,
Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
Carol Dahl, Ph.D. Biospect, Inc.
Chi Dang, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Division of Hematology, Johns
Hopkins University Department of Medicine
Alfred G. Gilman, M.D., Ph.D. Regental Professor and Chairman,
Department of Pharmocology, University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center
Allen S. Lichter, M.D. Newman Family Professor of Radiation
Oncology, Dean, University of Michigan Medical School
Candace Swimmer, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Department of Genome
Biochemistry, Exelixis, Inc.
Shirley M. Tilghman, Ph.D. President, Princeton University
Although the reviewers listed above have provided many construc-
tive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the con-
clusions or recommendations nor did they see the final draft of the report
before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Enriqueta C.
Bond, Ph.D., President, Burroughs Wellcome Fund and Charles E.
Phelps, Ph.D., Provost University of Rochester. Appointed by the Na-
tional Research Council and Institute of Medicine, they were responsible
for making certain that an independent examination of this report was
carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all re-
view comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final
content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the
institution.
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Acknowledgments
The committee gratefully acknowledges the contributions of many
individuals who provided invaluable information and data for the study,
either through formal presentations or through informal contacts with the
study staff:
Herman Alvarado, Bi Ade, Lee Babiss, Wendy Baldwin, John Carney,
Robert Cook-Deegan, Carol Dahl, James Deatherage, Joseph DeRisi, Marie
Freire, Jack Gibbons, John Gohagan, Eric Green, Judith Greenberg, Ed-
ward Hackett, Edward Harlow, Nathaniel Heintz, David Hirsh, Nancy
Hopkins, James Jensen, Marvin Kalt, Richard Klausner, William Koster,
Rolph Leming, Joan Leonard, Arnold Levine, David Livingston, Rochelle
Long, David Longfellow, Michael Lorenz, Richard Lyttle, Pamela Marino,
Richard Nelson, Emanuel Petricoin, Michael Rogers, Jacques Rossouw,
Walter Schaefer, William Schraeder, Stuart Schreiber, Edward Scolnick,
Scott Somers, Paula Stephan, Marcus Stoffel, Robert Strausberg, Daniel
Sullivan, Roy Vagelos, Craig Venter, LeRoy Walters, Barbara Weber,
Michael Wigler, Robert Wittes.
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Acronyms
AAAS – American Association for the Advancement of Science
AEC – Atomic Energy Commission (forerunner of DOE)
AFCS – Alliance for Cellular Signaling
AIP – American Institute of Physics
AUTM – Association of University Technology Managers
BAA – Broad Agency Announcement
CDC – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CEPH – Centre d’Etude du Polymorphisme Humaine
CERN – Conseil European Pour La Rechierche Nucleaire
CES – Cooperative Extension Services
CGAP – Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
COSEPUP – Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy
CRADA – Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
CSR – Center for Scientific Review
DARPA – The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DHHS – Department of Health and Human Services
DOD – Department of Defense
DOE – Department of Energy
DTP – Developmental Therapeutics Program
EDRN – The Early Detection Research Network
EPA – Environmental Protection Agency
EST – Expressed Sequence Tag
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x ACRONYMS
FDA – Food and Drug Administration
GPRA – Government Performance and Results Act
HGP – Human Genome Project
HHMI – Howard Hughes Medical Institute
HRT – Hormone Replacement Therapy
HUGO - Human Genome Organization
HUPO – Human Proteome Organization
INS – Immigration and Naturalization Service
IRG – Integrated Review Groups
IUPAP – International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
JCSG – Joint Center for Structure Genomics
MBL – Marine Biology Laboratory
MMHCC – Mouse Models of Human Cancers Consortium
MOU – Memoranda of Understanding
NACA – National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
NAS – National Academy of Sciences
NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCAB – National Cancer Advisory Board
NCI – National Cancer Institute
NDRC – National Defense Research Committee
NHGRI – National Human Genome Research Institute
NHLBI – National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
NIAID – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
NIEHS – National Institute of Environmental Health Science
NIGMS – National Institute of General Medical Sciences
NIH – National Institutes of Health
NOAA – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOARL – Naval Oceanographic and Atmospheric Research Laboratory
NRAC – Naval Research Advisory Committee
NRC – National Research Council
NRSA – National Research Service Awards
NSF – National Science Foundation
NTP – National Toxicology Program
OES – Office of Experiment Stations
OMB – Office of Management and Budget
ONR – Office of Naval Research
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