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. Email: elias.zerhouni@sanofi.com.
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. Email mhamburg@nas.edu.