WTEC Highlights

Duane Shelton

February, 2012

August 27, 2008

Acknowledgements

…and over 400 expert panelists, thousands of foreign hosts

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WTEC Past• WTEC is a non-profit that leads in international

R&D assessments by peer review• 70 studies funded by peer-reviewed NSF awards• Studies are jointly funded by several agencies• ITRI is the small business subsidiary of WTEC• Both were spun off from Loyola University

Maryland in 2001

Related Studies (Sponsors)• Systems Biology (NCI, NIBIB, NSF, DARPA, DOE,

EPA, NASA, NIST)• Biosensing (NIBIB, NSF, NASA, USDA, ARO)• Brain-Computer Interfaces (NSF, NINDS,NIBIB,

TATRC, et al.)• Simulation-Based Engineering & Science(NSF,

NASA, DOE, NIST, NIBIB)• Nanotechnology Progress and Opportunity (NSF,

USDA)• Rapid Vaccines Manufacturing (NSF, NIST, NIBIB,

HHS/BARDA, USDA)

WTEC Future: New in FY2012• Converging Technologies for Societal Benefit

(NSF, EPA, et al.) 12/15/11 • APHELION (NCI, NSF) 1/18/12, 2/1/12 • Systems Engineering and Education for

Manufacturing (4 NSF divisions) 1/19/12• BioImaging R&D (NSF, et al.) 2/8/12• Bidding on NNCO and NITRD contracts

Purposes of Studies Guide and justify U.S. research investments Look for good ideas abroad (tech transfer) Look for opportunities for cooperation and

collaboration Compare U.S. R&D programs and status with

those abroad

WTEC Methods

Write grant proposals that can pass peer review

Establish a coalition of sponsors who have resources to make it happen

Recruit a great panel from sponsor nominations

Conduct the study effectively; sponsors participate in decisions—like where to go

Maintain good host relations, so we can return in future studies

Publish an outstanding report

Report Editing

Our reports are of academic quality with full citations, etc.

Analytical chapters written by experts Site reports are merely an appendix

They are edited several times We always have to extract chapters from

holdouts Published in 9 books; we now have Springer

series with 4 published Distribution by paper media pales in

comparison to Web downloads

WTEC Staff for This Study

Frank Huband, PhD, VP for OperationsHassan Ali, MS, Project Manager (POC)Grant Lewison, PhD, EU Advance

ContractorHaydon Rochester, PhD, Senior EditorHemant Sarin, MD, International Science

Policy Fellow

More Information

Briefing books for this meeting Hassan Ali at 301-461-2109 or hali

@ScienceUS.org http://wtec.org http://wtec.org/neuralimaging (public)