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The Status and Future of Integrative and Organ Systems Sciences October 20 – 21, 2002 Bethesda, MD. Sponsored by: APS and ASPET Co-sponsors: Burroughs Wellcome Fund Merck Research Laboratories.
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The Status and Future of Integrative and Organ Systems SciencesOctober 20 – 21, 2002Bethesda, MD Sponsored by: APS and ASPET Co-sponsors: Burroughs Wellcome Fund Merck Research Laboratories
Reductionist approaches are aimed at identifying molecular and cellular events, studied in purified form or in isolated systems and including genomics, proteomics, biochemistry and cell biology Integrative and Organ Systems approaches are aimed at understanding how intact biological systems function at the level of whole animals, organs and organ systems (but not in the clinic). Definitions
Life Sciences Research Office(LSRO) Michael Falk Executive Director
To benefit society by evaluating biological information and scientific opinion for the public and private sectors Mission
James R. Bloedel Joseph R. Haywood D. Euan MacIntyre Peter C. Preusch James H. Woods Edward J. Zambraski Steering Committee
Founded in 1992 – leader in the discovery of human and microbial genes 1995 “success in turning our leadership in gene discovery into leadership in the creation of proprietary pharmaceutical products” 1997 “year of change for our company, as we began to implement clinical development of our own drugs” 1998 “significant progress in its ongoing transition to a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets” 2000 “genomics” found only once HGS Annual Reports