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Science 12 September 2003:
Vol. 301. no. 5639, p. 1485
DOI: 10.1126/science.1086133
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Policy Forum

SCIENCE EDUCATION:
Enhanced: Educating Future Scientists

Nancy S. Sung,1 Jeffrey I. Gordon,2 George D. Rose,3 Elizabeth D. Getzoff,4 Stephen J. Kron,5 David Mumford,6 José N. Onuchic,7 Norbert F. Scherer,8 DeWitt L. Sumners,9 Nancy J. Kopell10

Significant cultural changes are urgently needed if the burgeoning scientific opportunities in biology are to be tackled by a well-prepared cadre of young scientists from all disciplines. Interdisciplinary cooperation must encompass the individual investigator, academic department, research institution, and federal funding agencies. This Policy Forum describes principles and recommendations that have emerged from an ongoing experiment in interdisciplinary training that since 1996 has included three cycles of grant awards to ten institutions, involving several hundred trainees and their mentors.

1The Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709; 2Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110; 3Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218; 4Department of Molecular Biology, the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037; 5Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, and 6Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; 7Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912; 8Department of Physics, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093; 9Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306; and 10Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: nk{at}bu.edu

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