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... Taken together these questions are crucial for the missions of multiple agencies. The biological physics community has sharpened these questions and made progress toward answers by adopting the unifying language of statistical mechanics and dynamical systems, both in theoretical work and in the design and analysis of new experiments, as described in Part I
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From page 291...
... Specific Recommendation: The National Institutes of Health should form study sections devoted to biological physics, in its full breadth. NIH study sections are established via a process called ENQUIRE, through the Cen ter for Scientific Review (CSR)
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From page 292...
... Furthermore, there is a tradition of DoD agencies, at various times, seeing their mission in the broadest possible terms. As described above, DoD officials see a wide range of connections to topics being explored by the biological physics community.
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From page 293...
... Conclusion: There is an opportunity for DoD agencies to use the MURI Program to support biological physics, and for NSF and NIH to expand their support of these mid-sized collaborations. Industrial Research Laboratories As described in Part II of this report, biological physics has strong overlap and interaction with many fields that are relevant for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries -- structural biology, systems biology, molecular design, synthetic biology, and more.
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... Specific Recommendation: Industrial research laboratories should reinvest in biological physics, embracing their historic role in nurturing the field. Support for Education and Workforce Development One advantage of support being so widely distributed is that the biological physics community samples the different approaches adopted by the different agen cies.
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