Support of The Interface Of Three Areas OF Biomedical Science With The Mathematical Sciences

魏德曼0109132 通过数学和统计方法，我们有巨大的机会来增加对生物和生物医学研究挑战的理解。 但是，由于历史上的鸿沟将学科分开，研究人员在这些主题上进行合作并不容易。 为了克服这一鸿沟，国家研究理事会数学科学委员会与NRC的生命科学委员会合作，举办了一个研讨会，涉及约70人的学科，（1）激发一些新的合作和现场的见解（2）为数学科学家提供介绍（通过印刷品和互联网传播）的一些数学研究方向，有助于重要的生物和生物医学科学正在进行的研究。 在研讨会上，细胞功能动态建模、疾病状态建模和神经科学领域的主要研究人员描述了各自领域的一些主要研究挑战。 他们并不局限于“数学”的挑战;研讨会的讨论重点是确定数学和统计研究，应该被标记，以推进生物和生物医学研究议程。 通过广泛的数学科学家参与，研讨会带来了一些不同的观点和想法，以承担由演讲提出的开放性问题。 其目的是激发广泛的讨论，并提炼出最好的想法。 研讨会的摘要将被广泛传播，以使更多的数学科学家成为从事生物和生物医学研究所需的基本理解。

Weidman0109132 There are tremendous opportunities to increase ourunderstanding of biological and biomedical research challengesthrough mathematical and statistical methods. But it is not easyfor researchers to collaborate on these topics because of ahistorical gulf that separates the disciplines. In order toovercome that gulf, the Board on Mathematical Sciences of theNational Research Council, in collaboration with the NRC's Boardon Life Sciences, holds a workshop, involving some 70 peopleacross the disciplines, to (1) stimulate some new collaborationsand insights on the spot and (2) provide an introduction formathematical scientists (disseminated via print and the Internet)of some mathematical research directions that contribute toimportant ongoing research in the biological and biomedicalsciences. At the workshop, leading researchers in dynamical modelingof cellular functions, in modeling of disease states, and inneuroscience describe some of the major research challenges intheir fields. They do not limit themselves to "mathematical"challenges; workshop discussions are focused on identifying themathematical and statistical research that should be undertakenin order to advance the biological and biomedical researchagendas. By involving a broad range of mathematical scientists,the workshop brings a number of different perspectives and ideasto bear on the open questions raised by the presentations. Theaim is to stimulate a wide-ranging discussion and distill out thebest ideas. The workshop's summary will be widely disseminatedin order to give many more mathematical scientists the basicunderstanding needed to become engaged in biological andbiomedical research.