Funded by the NSF, grantees in the Biology Integration Institutes program came together to compile the variety of tools developed and used by large science teams to manage integration across research labs.
Interdisciplinary Team Science is needed to address numerous challenges facing humanity, from pandemics, to the transformation of the energy sector, to the largest challenge our species has ever faced, that of climate change. Since 2020, the National Science Foundation has invested in a collection of large-team Biology Integration Institutes to advance innovation in priority areas across the biological sciences, with 13 currently funded Institutes.
This collection of teams presents a powerful opportunity for advancement, in addition to that from their science: the collection and organization of the Interdisciplinary Team Science tools they have developed or applied, and an evaluation for the context-dependency of their application - i.e. how host organization (e.g. university size, Carnegie Classification System, populations served) and team characteristics (e.g. size, governance structures, career stage, demography) influence teams' prioritized needs for different kinds of tools.
In this Research Coordination Network, the Biology Integration Institutes will work together to pool resources, evaluate the context-dependency of use, and disseminate the collected Toolkit for Interdisciplinary Team Science. This will promote scientific progress across a range of areas where large-team integration is essential.
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