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Sure.
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-- but you can also participate in National Academy work.
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It's not uncommon for both the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine to ask experts to participate in developing documents.
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So what's the difference between being an inducted member versus being an expert that's asked --
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Ralph S. Baric
Well, an inducted member has to go through the review process by formal members and then voted on by the entire Academy about whether they should be included in that honorary group or not.
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And what does that mean? Are there privileges that are --
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The process is, as described to me when I first became a member, very esoteric and difficult to understand. But each section in the National Academy will open up a -- begin the process of thinking about new members to induct into the National Academy for their section. And members will nominate individuals. Those individuals will be presented to that section, in terms of a five-minute review of what they did, why it's significant, and where science would be should they not have existed. So you're looking for people who made DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com significant contributions to science. Then they do straw polls to down-select the most heavily supported individuals. Those are then taken to a larger committee and presented to the entire Academy from all the different sections. That group then ultimately makes the final list for voting, and then they do voting the beginning of April. Like the voting will probably end in the next few days, if it hasn't already ended for this next year's nominees that are being inducted. And then they're announced probably sometime within the next week or two, depending on the Academy. That's the process.
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And so your understanding is that was convened by NIH?
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No. You're confusing induction into the National Academy of Sciences with sponsored research that the National Academy does for Federal institutions. So the NIH wanted the National Academy to form a group that would review the COVID outbreak. That group will include National Academy members as well as individuals who are not National Academy member but knowledgeable experts in the field.