Decadal Assessment and Outlook on Biological Physics/Physics of Living Systems

美国国家科学院、工程院和医学院在物理学和天文学委员会和生命科学委员会的合作下，将组织并开展第一次生物物理学/生命系统物理学（bpps）的十年调查。该研究将评估bpps在过去十年中的进展和发展，并探索2020-2030年期间有希望的新方向。拟议的活动和报告将对整个领域生命科学和物理学之间的界面研究的未来产生重大影响。它将确定该领域的新方向和新视角，并制定指导方针，以推动美国和国外的科学努力。该委员会将包括具有分析和展示现代科学技术中生命系统物理学影响的专业知识的科学家。提议的活动在几个方面具有智力价值：(1)识别和阐明生命系统物理学中的科学机会，以及物理学和生物学之间的界面科学。项目产生的报告将为这些学科内的人员、政策制定者和其他有关方面提供明确和广泛的指导；(2)参与关键问题的评估过程以及物理工具和方法对生物学的适用性可以在引人注目的新科学领域产生新的见解和新的观点；(3)利用关于生命系统物理学研究已经和将继续产生的影响的信息，将有助于确定与进行这项研究相关的机遇和挑战，并最终将该领域置于更广泛的科学背景中。该项目由物理部、分子和细胞生物科学部以及综合有机系统部共同资助。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in a collaboration between the Board on Physics and Astronomy and the Board on Life Sciences, will organize and conduct a first decadal survey of biological physics/the physics of living systems (BPPLS). The study will assess the progress and developments in BPPLS over the past decade and explore promising new directions for the period 2020-2030. The proposed activity and report will have a significant impact on the future of research at the interface between the life sciences and physics across the field. It will identify new directions and new perspectives for the field and formulate guidelines for pursuing it to advance science efforts in the United States and abroad. The committee will include scientists with expertise to analyze and demonstrate the impact of the physics of living systems in modern science and technology. The proposed activity has intellectual merit in several capacities: (1) Identification and articulation of the scientific opportunities in the physics of living systems and science at the interface between physics and biology. The resulting report from the project will offer clear and broad guidance to those within these disciplines, to policymakers, and to other interested parties; (2) Participation in the assessment process for key questions and the applicability of physical tools and methods to biology can lead to fresh insights and new perspectives on compelling new areas of science; and (3) Using information on the impact that research on the physics of living systems has had and will continue to have will help identify opportunities and challenges associated with pursuing this research and ultimately place the field in the broader context of science.The project is jointly co-funded by the Physics Division, The Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Division, and the Integrative Organismal Systems Division.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.