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. As noted above, the biological physics community has done very well in the competition for these individual fellowships, but there is room for improvement of the community's representation in the institutional grants.
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As in other fields of physics, independent, individual fellowships are an effective mechanism. In addition to examples of how such fellowships are implemented at NSF and NIH, there are examples such as the BWF Career Awards at the Scientific Interface, which has had substantial engagement with the biological physics community, as discussed above.
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More concretely, NIH support for research on biological physics ultimately is justified by the fact that physicists' explorations of the phenomena of life have a profound impact on human health. As emphasized throughout this report, this is not merely "physics applied to medicine." Similarly, DoD support for the field is justified by the impact that biological physics has on relevant technology.
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Many are physically located at the DOE National Laboratories and are sup ported directly by the DOE Office of Science. Other facilities and funders relevant to the biological physics community include, among others: • The Advanced Imaging Center at Janelia Research Campus of HHMI, sup ported in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; • The New York Structural Biology Center, supported by a consortium of New York–based universities, the Simons Foundation, and NIH; • The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University, supported by NSF along with DOE through facilities at Los Alamos Na tional Laboratory; and • The Pacific Northwest Center for Cryo-EM (PNCC)
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Finding: Large-scale physical tools, particularly those for imaging and ad vanced computing and data, are an important part of the infrastructure sup porting thousands of researchers exploring the living world. Engagement of the biological physics community with user facilities goes beyond instruments to include high-performance computing.
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They invariably offer specialized training, courses and summer schools, run conferences bringing together their user communities, and host student interns. PNCC notes the centrality of training, "One of our center goals is to train cryo-EM researchers toward independence, with a focus of pro viding hands-on training opportunities, that are in short supply amongst many existing cryo-EM workshops." Although the raw data do not offer a detailed accounting of facility use by biological physics researchers, respondents offered insightful comments on the role of biological physics in the evolving interests and needs they are seeing among their user communities.
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