The Coalition has authored and collected several resources that provide more information on bridging the sciences.

Bridging The Sciences: A White Paper for Policymakers The Coalition has developed a White Paper that explains in detail the importance of investing in research at the interface of the physical, computation, mathematical and life sciences.

“The New Technological Revolution: Will the U.S. Lead, or Fall Behind” This article by Ken Dill and Charles Duke also provides excellent background on the important role the bridging sciences play in biomedical research.

Bridging the Sciences: What Scientific Opportunities Are We Missing? This document was prepared by the Bridging the Sciences Coalition in May 2007 for the National Institutes of Health Director. The intention of the document is to demonstrate the types of upstream, investigator-initiated research the coalition intended the Bridging the Sciences Demonstration to fund.

Bridging the Sciences & Deep Innovation in the U.S. Bridging the Sciences Co-Chair Ken Dill presented a slide presentation at the 51st Annual Biophysical Society Meeting Awards Symposium. The slideshow provides detail on the history of research at the interface of the physical, mathematical, and computational sciences and the biological sciences

NIH/NSF November 2004 Conference on Research at the Interface of the Life and Physical Sciences: Bridging the Sciences In May 2004, the NIH and NSF held the interagency conference required by Congress. The report shows that the government participants agree that research at the interface of the life and the physical sciences needs to be encouraged and that barriers to that type of research do exist.

June 2004 Meeting Summary on Federal Support for Research at the Interface With the generous support of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Bridging the Sciences Coalition brought together fourteen respected scientists from a variety of disciplines to discuss the need and methods for funding the bridging sciences. The meeting was held in Half Moon Bay, California. In brief, the findings were that there is a real need for the federal government to find new federal dollars to support basic research at the interface between the life and physical sciences and that the government is currently missing major scientific opportunities because it does not adequately fund this type of research. In order to be more successful in this area, the government must make a long-term stable commitment to funding this type of research, offer a variety of grant types for this kind of research, and make adjustments to the peer review process to accommodate scientists that do not work primarily in biology.