Committee Members: Robert H. Christenson, Ph.D., FACB, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; William Clarke, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Ann Gronowski, Ph.D., FACB, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; Catherine A. Hammett-Stabler, Ph.D., FACB, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; Ellis Jacobs, Ph.D., FACB, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA; Steve Kazmierczak, Ph.D., FACB, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA; Kent Lewandrowski, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Christopher Price, Ph.D., FACB, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; David Sacks, M.D., FACB, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Robert Sautter, Ph.D., Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; Greg Shipp, M.D., Nanosphere, Northbrook, Illinois, USA; Lori Sokoll, Ph.D., FACB, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Ian Watson, Ph.D., FACB, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, UK; William Winter, M.D., FACB, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA; Marcia L. Zucker, Ph.D., FACB, International Technidyne Corporation (ITC), Edison, New Jersey, USA