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In a whirlwind of activity over the past two weeks, U.S. National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan has been at the forefront of championing a vision of innovation without limits and paving the way for a boundary-free future in scientific discovery. 

On Thursday, Oct. 31, the director gave a keynote speech at the “Artificial Intelligence-Bioscience Collaborative International Summit” in Washington, D.C., run by the U.S. Department of State in collaboration with NSF, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Microsoft and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. The summit brought together partners and experts in AI and the biological sciences to share strategic opportunities for scientific discoveries and collaborations between these two fields and the potential risks. Panchanathan highlighted the significance of NSF’s investments in accelerating discoveries in AI and bioscience thus far and stressed the importance of fostering international and cross-sector collaborations.