The Role for Universities in Supporting National Priorities Homeland Security Business Conference an

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The Role for Universitiesin Supporting National
Priorities Homeland Security Business
Conference and Expo sponsored by The Public
Forum Institute andUnited States Senator Jack
Reedand co-sponsored by United States
Representative Patrick Kennedy March 24th, 2003
Brown University
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National Priorities

• Prevail in war on terrorism
• Protect National Security
• Stimulate economic growth
• --President Bushs State of the UnionJanuary 28,
  2003

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University Contributionsto National Priorities

• Education and training
• our future doctors, diplomats, scientists,
  engineers, linguists, public servants, security
  experts, industry leaders, teachers, etc.
• Basic research and development
• lightweight materials that improve airline safety
  and armor
• sensors for the detection of biohazards
• development of vaccines and drugs and their
  deliver
• internet security

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Research and Development (contd)

• University research is a vital building block of
  the nation's RD enterprise. While universities
  perform just 11 percent of total national RD,
  they perform 44 percent of the nation's basic
  research
• -AAU report May, 2002
• Federal government supports 58 percent of
  university research.
• In 2000, 17.5 billion 12.9 billion in basic
  research, 3.3 billion in applied research, and
  1.3 billion in development.
• --2000 data update, the National Science
  Foundation
• Brown gets approximately 80M in federal support
  annually and an additional 20M in private support

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Education and Training at Brown

• Policy, Diplomacy, and Languages
• Area Studies (East Asian Studies, Middle East,)
• Political Scientists and Demographers
• Economists
• Watson Institute for International Studies
• Global Environment Political Economy
  Development Global SecurityPolitics, Culture
  Identity
• Engineering and Science
• Division of Biology and Medicine

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Education and Training re RI

• Brown Medical School Working with the RI
  Department of Health to
• develop curriculum for Medical School and others
  aimed at identifying and training volunteers for
  mobilization as responders to crisis in sites
  across the state
• partner with local hospitals and others on
  emergency preparedness and response

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Research and Development

• Many technologies have dual use
• Basic research in the sciences and engineering is
  the basis for many unanticipated outcomes in the
  development and application of new
  technologies...

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• "This is one of the imperatives of
  science-that exploration at the frontier entails
  advances in technology-and it is also a powerful
  and pragmatic argument for supporting basic
  science. Many of us were drawn to science by the
  urge to know. Society supports us because that
  urge is even more productive for the improvement
  of the human condition than are the immediate
  necessities that are often said to be the mother
  of invention. The spin-offs of basic science are
  fundamentally new technologies that never would
  have been discovered solely in response to the
  needs they ultimately address. Think of the
  laser, of nuclear fission, or even of molecular
  biology, whose origins derive from a whole array
  of technologies developed for other purposes.
• --Office of Science and Technology Policy
  Director John Marburger in a February 15, 2002
  speech to the American Association for the
  Advancement of Science

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Dept. of Homeland Security

• Proposes 1 billion in RD for the component
  agencies (a nearly 50 increase in funding)
• Establishes Science and Technology Directorate
• Creates Homeland Security Advanced Research
  Projects Agency (HSARPA)
• designed to jumpstart and facilitate early RD
  efforts to help address critical needs in
  homeland defense on the scientific and
  technological front.
• the President calls for 350M to fund HSARPA in
  FY04.

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DHS RD as Proposed for FY04

• 800M is allocated to Science and Technology
  Directorate
• 80 of those funds (640M) in Science and
  Technology Directorate are dedicated to
• researching and organizing the scientific,
  engineering and technological resources of the US
  and leveraging (developing) them into tools to
  protect the homeland
• Universities are recognized as a critical
  partner in this endeavor along with the federal
  labs and private sector --DHS website
• 20 of STD funds (160M) are designated for basic
  research

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DHS RD as Proposed for FY04

• Goals of ST directorate include
• developing countermeasures to weapons of mass
  destruction
• protecting people and critical infrastructure
  from attacks
• developing technology to assess vulnerabilities
  and threats

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DHS RD as Proposed for FY04

• Remainder of funds (200M) in other directorates
• border and transportation security
• information analysis
• emergency preparedness and response
• protecting waterways

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DHS Priorities Reflected in Other Agency Funding

• NSF Research funded by the federal government
  -- either in labs, facilities, or in our
  universities -- is surely to promote the
  interests of our nation, and humankind. So this
  is undoubtedly patriotic in nature.
• Dr. Rita R. ColwellDirector, National Science
  FoundationAnnual Meeting--Universities Research
  AssociationWashington, D.C., January 30, 2002
• NIH not funded through DHS, but 1.8 billion
  proposed for National Institute for Allergy and
  Infectious Diseases (NIAID) supports goals of DHS

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RD at Brown University

• Developing countermeasures to weapons of mass
  destruction
• molecular and cellular engineering
• vaccine development
• treatment of disease and injury
• cell-based therapies
• bioinformatics
• biohazard sensors
• DNA sequencing
• fuel cells

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RD at Brown University

• Protecting people and critical infrastructure
  from attacks
• encryption and other forms of cyber security
• machine vision
• data mining and scientific visualization for
  total information awareness
• bioinformatics
• lightweight materials
• vaccine development
• Developing technology to assess vulnerabilities
  and threats
• data mining and scientific visualization for
  total information awareness
• detection of biohazards

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Some Key Research Facilities

• Brown has the only Biosafety level-3 research
  laboratory in the state
• Brown has a ca. 52,000 g.s.f. Animal Care
  Facility
• three full-time veterinarians
• biosafety level-2 rodent facility
• transgenic mouse facility
• facilities for both large and small animals
• two full surgical suites
• Nanotechnology fabrication facilities
• Scientific Computation Visualization
• multiple compute clusters
• only immersive virtual reality CAVE in the
  Northeast

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Selected Research Partnerships

• Companies with which we have entered research
  support agreements with within the last year and
  a half include

• BURF licensees Spherics
• Neurotech
• EpiVax
• CyberKinetics

• Agilent
• Aventis Pharmaceuticals
• BASF
• Bristol-Myers-Squibb
• British Biotech
• Eli Lilly
• Ford
• GM
• Hewlett-Packard Compaq
• IBM
• Merck
• Microsoft
• Pfizer
• Scion Pharmaceuticals

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Issues to Consider

• Need more funding for basic research
• long-term fundamental research is critical to
  homeland defense - basic research provides seed
  corn from which innovation advances
• Balance the interests of national security with
  the openness that is required to advance science
• want to develop the technology that enables
  government to keep us safe, and provides for
  economic growth and quality-of-life
• but need to publish, have foreign students and
  faculty continue to make important contributions
  to the research enterprise

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Conclusion

• CLEAR AND NECESSARY ROLE FOR RESEARCH
  UNIVERSITIES
• Office of the Vice President for Research has a
  priority mandate to attract resources and forge
  partnerships that will help the University, the
  State, and the Nation

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Contact

•  Vice President for ResearchAndries van Dam,
  Ph.D.
• Brown UniversityBox 1937
• Providence, Rhode Island 02912
• 401-863-2021
• VP_Research_at_brown.edu
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• David Kiszkiss, Ph.D., Director of Commercial
  Development
• David_Kiszkiss_at_Brown.edu
• 401-863-9896
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• Technologies available for license
• www.brown.edu/BURF
•  Support for entrepreneurs through the Brown
  Venture Forum
•  www.brownventureforum.org 

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Brown-Pfizer Master ofArts Program

• Brown has offered graduate courses at Pfizer
  Central Research in Groton CT. for over a decade
• Over 500 Pfizer employees have taken Brown
  graduate courses
• Over 30 Pfizer employees have received a Brown
  Masters degree
• The degree program is offered as an employee
  benefit
• Pfizer believes the program is very beneficial in
  retaining their work force

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Issues (contd)

• "Our nation today is a science superpower. The
  scope of our scientific activity, both basic and
  applied, is breathtaking and unmatched. We are
  not, however, a science monopoly, and we have
  much to learn from colleagues elsewhere in the
  world. Science thrives on open discourse.
  Measures that inhibit discourse will impede
  progress. We cannot limit scientific interactions
  with other nations without paying a scientific
  price."
• --White House Office of Science and Technology
  Policy Director John Marburger in a December 18,
  2001 speech by to the American Association for
  the Advancement of Science