Harold Varmus is president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center since 2000, and took the position after serving for more than six years as director of the NIH. The 1989 Nobel Prize winner is also a cofounder of the Public Library of Science and a member of the Science Initiative Group (SIG). On page 24, he makes the case for Global Science Corps, a SIG program that aims to place well-trained scientists and engineers in the research centers of developing countries to collaborate with their hosts on topics of local concern.
H. Steven Wiley, director of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Biomolecular Systems Initiative, has been performing quantitative studies of the epidermal growth factor receptor since he first modeled its binding and internalization in 1982. On page 52, he writes on the future of systems biology. "In the last 25 years, we've learned an enormous amount based on genomics, proteomics... and ...
