Q. What do you mean by Current Impediments?
Given the impressive list of past achievements, we expect that quantitative process to biological problems will continue to repay us handsomely in formulating and guiding experiments, in managing and interpreting data, and in predicting and understanding the behaviors of complex and variable biological systems. There are difficulties which have slowed progress in fundamental biological questions, both applied and basic. Most biologists know too little statistics and mathematics . Most mathematical scientists know little biology. Interdisciplinary work is difficult to start and to sustain for sociological, institutional and financial reasons. Nor do present educational institutions adequately make sufficient numbers of people to work at the key and exciting interfaces among the biological, mathematical and statistical sciences.