2015 Fellowship
2015 Landscaping Meeting
February 2015 saw the first event of the 2015 LEAP Fellowship - LEAP’s inaugural Landscaping meeting in Washington, DC. Hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center, this intensive 3-day meeting brought LEAP Fellows together with thought leaders from government, academia, industry and civil society for a snapshot of the current social, technical, economic, and political state of the field.
The Landscaping meeting featured a diverse array of speakers, including representatives from every major US funding agency. Many of the Landscaping speakers also serve in a Mentor capacity.
Fellow-authored Insight Papers from the Landscaping meeting are available here.
Speakers included:
| Spencer Adler (BioEconomy Capital) | Drew Endy (BioBricks) | Alan Pearson (USDA) |
| Tom Armel (DARPA contractor) | Mahmud Farooque (Center for Science Policy and Outcomes) | Pablo Rabinowicz (DOE) |
| Robbie Barbero (OSTP) | Paul Freemont (SynbiCITE) | Nagesh Rao (Small Business Administration) |
| Gary Benzion (Patent and Trademark Office) | Barbara Gerratana (NIH) | David Rejeski (WWC) |
| William Bonvillian (MIT ) | Theresa Good (NSF) | Andrew Robertson (Merck) |
| Nancy Burgess (HHS) | Alicia Jackson (DARPA) | Larisa Rudenko (FDA) |
| Sarah Carter (JVCI) | Rick Johnson (OECD) | Mark Segal (EPA) |
| Rocco Cassagrande (Gryphon Scientific) | Richard Kitney (SynbiCITE) | Rina Singh (Biotechnology Industry Organization) |
| Lindsay Chura (UK Science Innovation Network) | Todd Kuiken (WWC) | Dahlia Sokolov (House Subcommittee on Research and Technology (D)) |
| Lionel Clarke (UK SBLC) | Gwen McClung (EPA) | Frank Stein (IBM) |
| Cady Coleman, NASA Astronaut | Margaret Mellon (Union of Concerned Scientists) | Lloyd Timberlake (Freelance CSR) |
| Ben Corb (American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) | Kim Montgomery (House Subcommittee on Research and Technology (D)) | Jessica Tucker (NIH) |
| Tim Dafforn (UK BIS EiR) | Jeff Morris (EPA) | Patrick Windham (Technology Policy International) |
| Genya Dana (DOS) | Ken Oye (MIT) | Richard Yamada (Committee on Science, Space and Technology, (R)) |
| Alex Dehgan (Conservation X Labs) | Harry Partridge (NASA) | Ed You (FBI) |
Still to come in 2015:
- Leadership workshop
- Strategic Action Plans
- Catalyst grants
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