DR. EDWARD SAMULSKI (Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Dr. Samulski works principally on nanotechnology issues and divides his time between the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) and the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary (STAS). In INR he is assessing nanotechnology progress in Asia, attempting to separate hype from fact. This assessment has included travel to Japan and China and "science outreach" in the U.S. in the form of a webchat. In STAS, he helped organize two transatlantic scientific conferences, both on health and nanotechnology--the first focused on therapeutic advances, and the second on the societal and institutional ramifications of nano-product development and application. He also participated in two other bilateral conferences, one on "Quantum Information and Coherence" in Munich and the other on "Genomics and Infectious Diseases" in Beijing.