1. Elias Zerhouni is President, Global R&D, Sanofi, Paris, France and former director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
2. Margaret Hamburg is the Foreign Secretary of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, Washington DC 20001, USA; former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Silver Spring, MD 20993 USA; and former commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY 10013, USA.