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| Douglas J. Raber, Self, 4838 Butterworth Pl. NW, Washington, DC 20016 |
| The Workshop on Health and Medicine is one of six workshops held as part of the National Research Council’s study “Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century.” The workshop topics reflect areas of societal need—materials, energy and transportation, national security and homeland defense, health and medicine, information and communications, and environment. The charge for each workshop was to address the four themes of discovery, interfaces, challenges, and infrastructure as they relate to the workshop topic. These themes were the subject of breakout sessions at the workshop: * Discovery: What major discoveries or advances related to health & medicine have been made in the chemical sciences during the last several decades? * Interfaces: What are the major biomedical discoveries and challenges at the interfaces between chemistry/chemical engineering and other disciplines, including biology, information science, materials science, and physics? * Challenges: What are the biomedically-related grand challenges in the chemical sciences and engineering? * Infrastructure: What are the issues at the intersection of health & medicine and the chemical sciences for which there are structural challenges and opportunities--in teaching, research, equipment and instrumentation, facilities, and personnel? Published reports for the overall study and for each of the workshops are available from National Academies Press (www.nap.edu). |
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Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century: Health and Medicine
9:00 AM-12:30 PM, Sunday, March 28, 2004 Anaheim Convention Center -- Ballroom D, Oral
Division of Medicinal Chemistry |