I think there's a realization today in the major granting organizations that interdisciplinary research is the way to go. Nobody can know everything, and often you involve many disciplines. There are such things at NSERC and CIHR called interdisciplinary grant programs. You must have a partner from, say, a medical school and a physics department, or an engineering department and a dentistry faculty, something like that to bring them together. It could use a little more funding, perhaps, because they're always having to make decisions to do this or that, but I think the message is out and we are on our way. We are actually on our way to solving that problem of interdisciplinary collaboration. It's simply language and will.
On May 27th, 2008. See this statement in context.