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If particular grant programs cannot meet scien tists' needs, eventually they stop applying, giving the impression that community demand is shrinking, and making it more difficult for program officers to argue for greater resources. Finding: NSF award sizes for individual investigators in biological physics have reached dangerously low levels, both in contrast to NIH and in absolute terms.
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NSF and the Simons Founda tion also have partnered to support four Centers for the Mathematics of Complex Biological Systems, as noted above, all of which have substantial participation from the biological physics community. Many of the institutions that host these differ ent Centers are linked through NSF's Physics of Living Systems Student Research Network, which also connects to a number of institutions internationally.
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The tiny fraction of NIH training grants that support doctoral education in biological physics is not commensurate with the impact that physics has had on the biomedical sciences. It is even inconsistent with the larger fraction of NIH career development (K)
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This structure does not exist in biological physics. Adding Things Up The physicists' view is that the numbers describing the world fit together into some coherent framework.
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RESPONDING TO CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES One of the major challenges facing the biological physics community is the sub stantial mismatch between the community's intellectual activity and the structure of current funding programs. This should be understood in the context provided by the initial conclusion from Part I of this report: Conclusion: Biological physics, or the physics of living systems, now has emerged fully as a field of physics, alongside more traditional fields of astro physics and cosmology; atomic, molecular, and optical physics; condensed matter physics; nuclear physics; particle physics; and plasma physics.
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