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4 Fifteen Years of Innovation and Impact
4 Fifteen Years of Innovation and Impact
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M Keck Foundation, the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI)
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M Keck Foundation for NAKFI 11,489 Downloads of the Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research report from NAP 15 Years of NAKFI program and Futures Conferences 22,133 Downloads of the 13 Futures Conference summaries from NAP 2,019 NAKFI alumni thinking "big" at the frontiers of science, engineering, and medicine 202 Futures Grants awarded $14,600,000 Funding awarded for Futures Grants to fuel innovation $158,000,000 Verified follow-on funding secured by Futures Grantees 205 Publications produced by Futures Grantees 6,442 Times NAKFI-funded papers have been cited by others 6 Patents granted to Futures Grantees 94 Graduate students supported by Futures Grants 42 Postdoctoral fellows supported by Futures Grants 162 Students involved in NAKFI science writing and design activities $1,500,000 For three NAKFI Challenge awards to further the NAKFI legacy 60 Awards given for excellence in science reporting to the public $1,200,000 Funding provided to Communication Award winners 34,000 Average number of individual visits to NAKFI's website each month 479 Stories or posts about NAKFI that appeared in media outlets in 2016
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One student was accepted to the joint Caltech/NASA/ ArtCenter Data Visualization program and will be working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and another interned with the Wellbeing Index, a data-driven community engagement initiative in Santa Monica, California. It was a pleasant surprise to learn that the presence of science writing and design students was mutually beneficial to research participants.
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This is just the first step in its role as a conversation starter, idea incubator, career transformer, venture science supporter, and public engager. The generative ideas that NAKFI has inspired and nurtured are an important component of the pursuit of discovery and innovation that is necessary to fuel our prosperity and success as a nation for the next 50 years.
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"The environment definitely influences collective behavior. That started my whole interest in this area." Shortly after conducting this study, Pinter-Wollman attended the NAKFI Conference on Collective Behavior.
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titled "Interdisciplinary Approaches for Uncovering the Impacts of Architecture on Collective Behavior." Its focus is on quantifying and analyzing the impact of the physical environment, such as buildings and nests, on the collective behavior of humans and animals. The scholars currently call their new field architecture and collective behavior.
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SOURCE: Story by Stuart Wolpert/UCLA Newsroom; reprinted with permission. This story demonstrates the importance of a pluralism of per spectives and NAKFI's role as an idea incubator and conversation starter to scientific innovation.
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ART–SCIENCE COLLABORATIONS RAISE ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS Futures Grantees and participants from 2015–2016 (e.g., Brandon Ballengée, Jonathan Berger/Timothy Weaver, Alyson Santoro/Andrew
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These projects highlight how art–science collaborations can engage the public and other scientists and encourage discourse in important issues. They also represent concrete projects that have transcended the Futures Conferences and led to not only scientific impact but also educational, cultural, and social influence.
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modes of approach to re search and outreach, as well as ways to implement inclusive scientific study and informal education programs in rural communities where science literacy is sadly endangered." Several tangible outcomes came from the project, including a peer-reviewed research paper, a citizen science survey "refinding" a species of fish that had been missing since the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the development of several new K–12 interdisciplinary art–science workshops and teacher trainings to align with new Louisiana state science standards, and more than 3,600 youth and members of the Gulf public who interacted with the museum, participated in a citizen science program, or both. Bal lengée's hope is that as the Crude Life ecological surveys continue we will find more of the species ‘missing' since the 2010 spill.
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Yet, microbes are mistakenly aligned solely as agents of disease by non-experts of all ages. In her Futures Grant proposal, Santoro described the challenge for microbiologists to engage the public with the important and fas cinating world of microbes.
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Following her participation in the 2016 Futures Conference, Santoro, NAKFI participant Andrew Quitmeyer, and their colleagues Nancy Knowlton, Sant Chair for Marine Science at the Smithson ian's National Museum of Natural History, and Emily Frost, manag ing editor of the Ocean Portal at the Smithsonian, were awarded a Futures Grant to build a new home for marine microbes on the internet through the Smithsonian's Ocean Portal. "Content devel oped by our team -- including video, interactive graphics, ‘how-to' articles, ‘build your own microbe' paper craft models, fiber-art based microbes, and LED-embedded projects that mimic bioluminescent microbes -- will be available the more than two million visitors to the Ocean Portal annually," described Frost.
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As marine biologists are learning more about the deep ocean and how it is changing as a result of anthropogenic activities, most people are largely unaware of what is happening deep beneath the ocean's surface. Following the 2016 NAKFI conference, Madhvi Kasi Aysola and Madhvi Venkatesh, Curriculum Fellow, Venkatesh performing at the Lecturer, and Co-Artistic Director, Marine Life Gallery at the Harvard Medical School, received Harvard Museum of Natural a Futures Grant to raise the aware History.
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. He was the principal inves tigator on the Futures Grant that he received in 2007: Biomimetic Tactile Sensors and Grip Control Strategies.
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Dr. Loeb never intended to start a company, or at least not this one. But he is energized by the direction his research has taken and continues to develop and publish algorithms for tactile perception and feedback control. In 2014, Syntouch was designated a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. The World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneers program recognizes companies, normally in a start-up phase, from around the world that are involved in the design, development, and deployment of new technologies and are set to have a significant impact on business and society.
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Derda told Weibel about his work using layers of filter paper infused with cell-culture media to make structures of multiple eukary otic cells. The paper provides scaffolding for the cells, which settle into the pores of the paper allowing Derda to study the movement of oxygen, nutrients, and signal ing molecules within tumors.
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It's doable and it's non-hazardous using soil bacteria." Derda and Weibel each developed an outreach program in their own labs -- Derda by bringing 20 high school students to work in his lab over the past 6 years and Weibel by inviting 2 teachers and 2 undergraduate stu dents to learn about synthetic biology and the paper scaffolding tech niques during a summer in the lab. The school teachers developed a curriculum for their science classes to incorporate the microbial community research and enlisted the student scientists.
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During conversa tions at the NAKFI conference on Complex Systems in 2008, Schiff and his colleagues proposed to take this concept of non-linear modeling and apply it to building a predictive model for seizures. NAKFI gave them $50,000 and Penn State provided additional funding because it was an innovative research ques tion.
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"We learned that we can take climate factors into account in our predictive models, which moves us closer to real-time prediction at the population level," Schiff explained. Schiff received more than $8 million through a 2018 NIH Director's Transformative Research Award, which supports projects that are inherently risky and untested but have the potential to create or overturn fundamental paradigms to further investigate real-time, point-of-care treatment predictions of infectious diseases.
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Considered composition in each well of a by one of the reviewers to be one of 24-well plate. When coupled the most successful grants awarded to a mass spectrometer, this that year, Wikswo's "Biology on De system can be configured as mand" project is a strong example of a 24-channel yeast chemostat how NAKFI's investment in "venture with real-time, closed-loop science" can set the stage for a new control -- a concept developed research direction and open the door during the NAKFI seed grant to significant grant money.
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"The general idea of control theory and control biology came out of the NAKFI meeting … NAKFI inspired my group and got us in the organs-on-a-chip business at the right time," Wikswo said. "We are in a great position, nationally, in building widgets to control biology." Wikswo and colleagues have received over $18M in federal and commercial funding to continue this work.
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These examples show that cascading effects beyond intended impact of the program are possible in part because individuals can have powerful impact on the scientific endeavor. NASA Missions on Synthetic Biology Futures Grantee Dr.
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RIMR adapted the NAKFI model, which addresses a single topic at each of a series of annual conferences, to a multi-year effort on atrophic age-related macular degeneration. RIMR brings together outstanding basic scientists, engineers, medical researchers, and clinicians to develop a better understanding of age-related atrophic macular degeneration (AMD)
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The Minnesota Futures grant program advances new, collaborative research by fostering opportunities for researchers to cross disciplinary and professional boundaries and respond to emerging interdisciplinary research and scholarship. According to the University of Minnesota's Office of the Vice President for Research, "Minnesota Futures Grants [are]
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Carpenter served on the Advisory Group that helped establish the GRP in 2013 and 2014, and this connection led to collaboration between the two programs with the GRP looking to the NAKFI model as one example of how to bring together experts from a range of disciplines to address critical societal challenges. The GRP's interest in community engagement also stimulated financial support of the Futures Grants awarded following the 2016 conference Discovering the Deep Blue Sea: Research, Innovation, Social Engagement, as well as a mechanism to assess the impact of the grants following NAKFI's conclusion.
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