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PCAST is consulted about, and often makes policy recommendations concerning, the full range of issues where understandings from the domains of science, technology, and innovation bear potentially on the policy choices before the President.  \nFor more information about PCAST, [see](see www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/pcast)[ ](see www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/pcast)[www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/pcast](see www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/pcast).  \nThe President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology  \nCo-Chairs  \nJohn P. Holdren  \nAssistant to the President for Science and Technology  \nDirector, Office of Science and Technology Policy  \nEric S. Lander  \nPresident  \nBroad Institute of Harvard and MIT  \nVice Chairs  \nWilliam Press  \nRaymer Professor in Computer Science and Integrative Biology  \nUniversity of Texas at Austin  \nMembers  \nWanda M. Austin  \nPresident and CEO  \nThe Aerospace Corporation  \nRosina Bierbaum  \nProfessor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan  \nRoy F. Westin Chair in Natural Economics, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland  \nMaxine Savitz  \nHoneywell (ret. )  \nChristopher Chyba  \nProfessor, Astrophysical Sciences and International Affairs  \nPrinceton University  \nS. James Gates, Jr.  \nJohn S. Toll Professor of Physics  \nDirector, Center for String and Particle Theory  \nUniversity of Maryland, College Park  \nChristine Cassel  \nPlanning Dean  \nKaiser Permanente School of Medicine  \nMark Gorenberg  \nManaging Member  \nZetta Venture Partners  \nSusan L. Graham  \nPehong Chen Distinguished Professor Emeritain Electrical Engineering and Computer Science  \nUniversity of California, Berkeley  \nEd Penhoet  \nDirector  \nAlta Partners  \nProfessor Emeritus, Biochemistry and Public Health  \nUniversity of California, Berkeley  \nMichael McQuade  \nSenior Vice President for Science and Technology  \nUnited Technologies Corporation  \nBarbara Schaal  \nDean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences  \nMary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor of Biology  \nWashington University of St. Louis  \nChad Mirkin  \nGeorge B. 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